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jimbokuntoday at 7:40 PM0 repliesview on HN

Most people think of the loss of Steve Jobs passing in terms of Apple product design.

However the loss of his talent for business negotiations was at least as great a loss for Apple. He negotiated deals to get almost the entire recording industry onto iTunes. He convinced AT&T to sacrifice control of devices on their network to get an iPhone exclusive.

Maybe he would have found a way to convince Netflix to integrate their content into Apple TV.