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- TruckStuff, on 11/05/2009, -13/+55Regardless of what you think about him or his company's products, its still a pretty amazing turn-around considering Apple was on the brink of becoming a footnote in business history in the mid-90s.
But he is still a pretentious *****. - hypografik, on 11/05/2009, -7/+45"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." - Steve Ballmer
Well, Mr. Ballmer, you should learn from Apple's CEO. You're crashing Microsoft while Jobs' taking Apple to the sky... - borez, on 11/05/2009, -6/+39You can't knock him, he's taken the company from the realms of a few graphic designers and musicians to a major player in the field... No other computer company has come remotely close to biting the Microsoft pie in the last ten years.
Hats off really. - monkeyrun, on 11/05/2009, -1/+24He did manage to orchestrate the biggest come back in the history of the computer world.
And who could've thought of this
1) buy Pixar from George Lucas
2) Create great animation..
3) ????
4) Become the biggest shareholder of Disney. - Orbital101, on 11/05/2009, -0/+19I love Woz and he deserves all the credit he gets... but the Apple that Woz helped make is not the Apple that exists today. Nor has it been for a long time.
- Shakermaker, on 11/05/2009, -1/+19Sounds like someone needs to brush up on their history.
- fonetikly, on 11/05/2009, -0/+16That should look good on a resume. Well, that and being Steve Jobs.
- ziplizard, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15Early products like the iPod in 2001?
- fifaigor, on 11/05/2009, -5/+19Woow whats up with these windows trolls digging people down who say something positive about apple. Its seriously sad if you have nothing else to do, Jobs truly deserves the title, and guess what, if it wasn't for some competition from Apple, Windows 7 would not have been out for another half decade. Pay some respect to the man who revolutionized several markets.
- gimmeslack12, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13Hmm, I wonder why computers and accessories have such affluent color schemes these days.
Or why the market for online distribution of video and music is so huge...
Or why smart phones all seem to need a touchscreen and app stores...
Or why laptops designs are vying for sex appeal...
Who could be responsible for that? - spike1201, on 11/05/2009, -2/+14It's an interesting article. Plus, the praises don't even include that he was CEO of another extremely successful company AT THE SAME TIME for most of those years: Pixar.
- appleseed1234, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11So you don't think 1999-2004 were monumental years for Apple? Lol.
- MacParrot, on 11/05/2009, -1/+11It's so sad when jealousy becomes an obsessive compulsion. Whassa matter baby? Did that bad ol Jobsy pee in your cornflakes again?
Here's the part where you get all outraged and call me a fanboy...shrug - Rantus, on 11/05/2009, -3/+12Hey, I think he's a genius because he heads up the only mainstream American computer manufacturer that actually has unique products instead of mostly re-branded crap from Asia. The Mac line is totally unique as well as their consumer electronics products. OS X leads the way fro OS development and trends. He deserves this award even if he isn't Mr. Personality.
- MacParrot, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Woz could make a computer from scratch from a bunch of spare parts, but only Jobs could make people want to buy it. As brilliant as Woz is, if you can't sell the product you're going to fail. Need an example? The Amiga whose OS was far superior (at the time) to anything being made by Apple or Microsoft and they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag. Where exactly are they today?
- flickr, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7I think to an extent he'd agree with that statement, see his Stanford graduation speech.
- cthellis, on 11/06/2009, -0/+7The restructuring and launch of the iMac began their turnaround. That was in 1998. Eleven years ago.
Even if you just want to count the 00's, the iPod was launched in 2001. I hear a few people purchased one since then.
Admittedly the Cube was in 2000, so they started the decade with a bit of a stumble. ;-) - MacParrot, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6It's only 2009. I'm sure there will plenty of other ***** you can nominate in the meantime
- TallestSkil, on 11/05/2009, -0/+63) is "Wait for the relationship between Pixar and Disney to become great enough that one eventually buys the other."
Oh, and .5 would be "Start another computer company, NeXT, and use those computers at Pixar to make it great." - lennynumberone, on 11/06/2009, -0/+6Bush / Cheney have that one locked up.
- cthellis, on 11/06/2009, -0/+5Woz is awesome and all, but Jobs deserves a lot more of the drive and credit for their BEING an "Apple." After all, Woz was happy at HP and offered his computer designs through them first (silly HP), and Jobs had to push Woz over and over to get him to commit to the new company.
In any story, you can point to elements without where there would not "be" that story, but in Apple's case it is very much dominated by Jobs. - TheAbsintheHare, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Really? Capicinno?
Anyway, the point he is making is an ipod isn't just a harddrive and a circuit board. Yes, now we can look at it that way, but when it first came out, it was revolutionary. Everyone else followed suit afterwards, and rebranded something that was already done. - sqtab, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5A**hole or not, I can only wish Mark Shuttleworth would do for Canonical what he did for Apple.
The Linux desktop sucks ***** compared to Mac OS X (and now Windows 7). - L0NER, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5false.. he bought it from George Lucas and tried to make them make the pixar computer.
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/pixar/pixar_image_ ...
the pixar was to be the graphics making machine and the apple was to be the consumer machine.
just goes to show that the inventor never knows what the invention will be used for. - TallestSkil, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Woz, had he even WANTED to be a C.E.O., would have been the C.E.O. of the decade for the 1970s for having introduced the Apple II.
But this is 2000-2009. He's not even at Apple anymore (though he still gets a check from them). - OptimismPrime, on 11/06/2009, -0/+4The Cube was a Mini ahead of its time..
- bugalou, on 11/06/2009, -0/+3Props to Steve, what he did is impressive with Apple. With that being said, I don't see Microsoft "crashing". What does MS have to do with this short of a fanboy flame bait?
- krisrm, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Well, now that they have this biased ranting here, maybe the "Windows trolls" don't need to explain why all-opinion-and-no-fact statements such as this end up buried...
- Orbital101, on 11/05/2009, -4/+7I was thinking last night about how he's such an incredible ***** with no ability to relate to average people. I've worked with Apple in various ways over the years and have both met Jobs and also met people who deal with Jobs, and he is *not* a charming guy. He reminds me a bit of Michael Jackson in that he's been told he's great in so many ways by so many people for so long that he seems to have lost touch with reality and his role in it. I've been around him. He doesn't know how to greet someone properly. He doesn't know how to be grateful or gracious. This is, no doubt, because he lives in this distorted bubble where the whole world looks at him to be a genius every time he opens his mouth.
I do think he's a genius and I do think he's CEO of the decade. I just also happen to think he's living a life I wouldn't want to live. I feel bad for him. - MacParrot, on 11/06/2009, -1/+4AAAAnd here's the part where I ask the model number and we exchange some X number of emails trading insults while we both argue over minutia of technical points that in the long run doesn't mean jack *****.
I honestly don't care if your Nokia had every single thing the iPhone did 3 years ago (which is BS but you're welcome to believe whatever you want) and if you're TRULY happy with your current phone you wouldn't care what some emo know-nothing ad campaign or blogger said about the iPhone as compared to something else.
Between the two of us, you're the one obsessed with Apple and Jobs. They make the computer I prefer and that's about the end of any emotional attachment I have to tech. Jobs is a douche and I wouldn't want to work for him or even know him personally (like THAT could ever happen) but the guy knows how to do business. As the article says he took a special effects company and turned them into a power house, practically taking over Disney in some weird reverse corporate buyout. He did the same at Apple, replacing all the execs that had spent 10 years running the company into the ground with his own hand-picked team.
You want to hate on their tech (for reasons that seem unfathomable to me)? Go ahead, but Apple and Jobs ARE a success story no matter how much you don't want them to be. You sound like all those insane Apple fans of the late 90s complaining about how Microsoft ripped off Apple (which in part true/part nonsense but who cares now?). Just get over it - ducttape36, on 11/05/2009, -3/+5that and the money bill gates gave them so they could avoid monopoly charges.
- macslut, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2How about 1.5:
When you fail to sell computer systems to Disney, change Pixar from a computer systems company to an animated feature film studio based on demos used to show off the same failed computer business. - hypografik, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1iPhone US market share at the moment = 52%
http://thenextweb.com/2009/11/11/exclusive-droid-g ...
You're clueless. - gimmeslack12, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1The Cube was just too expensive. That really is the only reason I see why it didn't do well. It was intro-ed at $1599. The Mini intro-ed at $499.
- cJeremy, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1ur an idiot. u ***** fanboy *****. win7 is great.
- cthellis, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Beat out the Shuttle case, which has been popular among certain people. None of them precisely sell gangbusters to consumers though, so... Most people tend to have a vision of what a "computer" means, so going too far aside is just going to throw them off.
Mainly, the Cube was poorly positioned, and Apple's brand recovery was not in full swing to give the Cube more emphasis. They might have sold more of the iconic little box if they had a model that was G3-based and aimed at the consumer end the mini is, not just really-expensive-and-really-tiny boxes that sit on the desk of your boss's boss. - frygar, on 11/06/2009, -2/+3Suck it, Ballmer. Actually, while you're at it, lay off another hundred or so microserfs.
- frygar, on 11/06/2009, -4/+4...which still sucks bags and bags of dicks. Fail.
- J0415, on 11/06/2009, -2/+2You have no idea how stocks work do you?
***** buried for fanboyism. - hypografik, on 11/06/2009, -2/+2Look here for the answer:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pNJFZtinpKY/StqGLqS0qmI/ ... - eriku16, on 11/17/2009, -0/+0Not just the OS, the hardware too! Nobody could touch the Amiga's hardware at the time and even after Commod-door went bankrupt. It's only just sheer luck that Apple has survived. Even today, it's amazing that with less market share than they had in the 80's, the dead keeps walking.
- eriku16, on 11/17/2009, -0/+0I remember how the Apple fanbois trounced Intel and PC hardware up and down. When Job's went to the "darkside", they became silent and said.. "ok..." When Job's charged twice the price for the same Intel/PC hardware. He said, "bend over" They became silent and said "ok, balls deep"...
- eriku16, on 11/17/2009, -0/+0I had a workstation that was black with purple accents long before imac came out.
Thank god for bitorrent/USENET/IRC..etc..etc..etc.! :) Oh, did you mean itunes? What's that? I don't have an ipod or iphone. ;)
Smartphones with touchscreens and apps stores been around long before the iphone/touch.
I don't buy a laptop to have sex with...nor would I recommend it. ;)
I did not have a black turtleneck (I'm in the tropics), nor do I drink apple flavoured Kool-Aid. I prefer tea... Earl Grey... HOT :) - lennynumberone, on 11/06/2009, -2/+0John Scully
- sqtab, on 11/05/2009, -2/+0@ krisrm:
Do you REALLY understand the point I was making?
Did you actually read the post (or are you just trolling)?
Which OS do you think I use?
Which OS do you think I like?
Where is the bias in anything I said? - cJeremy, on 11/05/2009, -5/+3at least they got windows 7
- gilbes, on 11/06/2009, -4/+2No this is the part where I remind you I had a Nokia phone that did everything an iPhone did 3 years before it was released. My current phone does much more than an iPhone and it is a true smart phone, not cutting edge but no iPhone which would have been cutting edge 8 ***** years ago durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
It is like that reaction that Mac enthusiast had when they went from IBM Power PC to Intel, most had no idea why they were upset, but they kinda were, but Jobs said it so it was WORD! - hardeep1singh, on 11/06/2009, -6/+4iPhone market share = 1%
Ballmer was so correct. - L0NER, on 11/05/2009, -4/+2Every single product they make is 'designed in capicinno' (or whatever)
ever open an ipod? all it is is a Toshiba hard drive and Chinese circuit board - spacebuddy, on 11/05/2009, -4/+1Steve created Pixar, enough said.
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