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- Look at Apple/Mac since 2001 (OS X - each new build BETTER than the last) and Windows since 2000 (2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8 - EACH with it's own nightmares), iTunes vs Windows Media Player, iPod vs Zune, iPhone vs Windows phone, MacBook Pro vs every other laptop in the world... Apple has outdone them all because instead of building what he wanted and what he thought was cool, Steve Jobs built what people wanted, and what people thought was cool.. and most importantly, he made sure it worked BEFORE he released it. Bill Gates could learn a lifetime's worth from that las part.
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- I find this interview so interesting! Ever since I laid my hands on an Apple Computer back in 1993, I knew Apple was going to outdo Microsoft and they did! Today, I am surrounded by mostly Apple Products and Lab Tops. My music productivity has skyrocketed as a result of my Apple Music Software and Lab Tops...visit my personal teaching site at flyingmidieagle1 to learn more. I like how he focused on what he was accomplishing and I have done the same with my Virtual Science University Products. Steve Jobs has been my model for what I have done with my Science Education Business. Steve Jobs has his mark in history with other innovators like Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein!
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- The phrase "It's lonely at the top" means the boss isn't going to be seen as the nicest person all the time. Bosses make difficult decisions and competition can be brutal. That's just the way it goes in a free market system. I couldn't care less about how he was perceived by his employees. Apple products dominate because he assembled a brilliant team and was at the helm leading the way.
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- Steve was not a saint.
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- Jobs was a business guy with a talent for marketing tech toys. Gates was a business guy with a talent for unscrupulous business practices.
The real heroes of the tech world are the people who develop the actual technologies which provide new ways of creation. They aren't the guys running the businesses, they are the guys who actually innovate.
Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Tim Berners-Lee, Jon Postel, David Clark, Linus Torvalds are among the many mathematicians, physicists,v and engineers who have reimagined and created new possibilities of human technology and society. - Reply to this comment
- If Steve Jobs wasn't the type of business man that you are all talking about...Picky, rude, arrogant, demanding. Apple would not be the company it is today! Thanks to that behavior, I have a lot of very cool toys !
Thank you Mr. Jobs. You have enriched many lives and will be missed. - Reply to this comment
- as a recent "switcher" from windows i am increasingly fond of my macbook air, preceeded at long intervals by my iphone 4 and ipod shuffle. this last piece of hardware, the shuffle, floored me by its size - lack of - and i sill marvel at how much it holds, and how elegant it looks and feels.
several years my junior, jobs was a genius; but i feel thankful that neither he, nor, more importantly his wife tried to present anything but the unvarnished truth about him; and a better biographer could not be found, isaacson does a superb job - everyone should read his obituary of jobs in time magazine, it is sheer poetry.
gives one pause to realize all at once that it does not take a saint, a kindly soul, or even an engineer to produce apple products ... it takes a steve jobs.
thank you, steve, tho; you can't hear me; mrs. steve, and walter isaacson. - Reply to this comment
- The more I learn about Steve Jobs, the more I respect Bill Gates.
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- If I could afford an Apple, I would throw my microsoft out the door.
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- sure cbs godded him up...they are all liberals...duh!
but hey the guy is a brillant business mind and he will be greatly missed. and im not ashamed to say i appreciate that cbs presented the story the way they did. think it was thoughtful, respectful, just proves once again why cbs news is a great organization, even in spite of the whole liberal thing. just because some people dont understand that great companies are built on great people putting the right people around them, well lets face it that's jealousy talking. - Reply to this comment
