Jobs turned Apple around long before the iphone. He did it by reorganizing the company and redirecting its efforts, something a string of previous Apple CEOs failed at.
> do we really think that if Jobs and Musk had never come along
Do you really think that without the internet, nobody would have invented a network? And they did - Compuserve, Timenet, MCIMail, BIX, Prodigy, FidoNet, Gopher, etc. Heck, anyone with two or more computers would hook them together. I even wrote code to connect my own computers together over a serial line.
The internet was also based on previous technology - the telegraphy network.
> do we really think that if Jobs and Musk had never come along
Do you really think that without the internet, nobody would have invented a network? And they did - Compuserve, Timenet, MCIMail, BIX, Prodigy, FidoNet, Gopher, etc. Heck, anyone with two or more computers would hook them together. I even wrote code to connect my own computers together over a serial line.
The internet was also based on previous technology - the telegraphy network.