Well, I have to agree with him, whoever fired Steve Jobs was a complete idiot who trusted the opinion of a pre suger-water-selling company CEO while dropping off one of real minds behind the technology Apple served in those days. The world would have been different.
Whether you hate or love Jobs, he did a revolution and his name will be alongside all the great names of the human history.
For some reason, the people that replied to you really hit a nerve of mine.
Is it so in to hate on Apple now that people aren't even to admit Jobs' earlier accomplishments? Sure Jobs didn't do it alone, but just like Bill Gates, their names will most certainly be remembered for there pioneering contributions to the consumer computer industry.
To say anything less is woefully ignorant, treading into troll territory and a waste of anyone else's time.
Well said. Although, being in the comments section here is certainly a waste of time, 100% troll territory, and the birthplace of woeful ignorance. Watch how any negative comment about Apple gets highly ranked, even if it has no basis in fact & is just vitriolic jealousy. These people are still talking about the antenna every chance they get. They say Steve Jobs should be fired, and that Apple is a monopoly, an evil empire - and they do this typing away on their Windows based PC, since Microsoft is free from any evil or monopolistic tendencies.
I actually enjoy it, makes me feel better about myself to see such blatant, misinformed stupidity. I say, help engadget out & egg them on.
Oh, to stay on topic, Larry Ellison is a cool cat & he is correct.
Thank you guys for understanding and adding to the point.
I use a PC with Windows 7, used the iPhone 3GS and now using the Samsung Galaxy S with Android. No matter what I use, I always make sure that it suits me, this doesn't mean that anybody else bad or good.
Having said all of that, I honestly believe that Steve Jobs just like Bill Gates, have both contributed to the forming of the PC age. Steve gets more credits for the fact that he went against all big companies at his time and produced with Woz a computer that can be set in any home and has a easy to use graphical interface and software.
Jobs, did a lot more than iPads, many things happened behind the scene, fighting against huge corporations would slam any strong man down and fade their dreams away, but Jobs stood strong, held hands with Woz and his small team and mass produced PC to the world. Now add to this story all the steady successful products he directed and produced and you've got yourself one of the best CEO's in the world, if not the best. A CEO to be taught about and many look up to.
So, easy on the bashing and try to learn about these people before claiming that they don't deserve to be in the books of history as some of the most influential men in human history.
How would that make Steve Jobs any different from say a CEO at a fast food company about five years ago, or a tobacco company in the 90s?
Wow. He's faced adversity, no one else has ever done that. /s
And why are you romanticizing Steve Jobs? You talk as if he's some sort of godsend. Did he code anything? No. Did he engineer anything? No.
But managing people and making arbitrary decision is very, very hard. /s
He was also fired for good reason. Instead of capturing a dominating share of the home computing market, he failed to monopolize on the opportunity and let Microsoft's software driven takeover happen.
Now he peddles product. Did his company release the first MP3 player? No. How about the first touch screen smartphone? No.
I'm no fanboy. I don't care what I use. But the above rant was triggered by Saad's post.
@worldspawn Perhaps you don't know how the first Mac was created but yes Steve Jobs did help engineer said device. And as far as marketshare your right, he didn't take advantage like Microsoft by creating the biggest pos os just to capitalize on people's stupidity. I guess we will see in the next few years.
If my OS ran strictly for 1 specific set of hardware, it BETTER not have issues.
Windows is not necessarily a POS OS. Maybe ur just a POS user. But like I stated, If my OS was designed to run on 1 set of drivers and 1 set of hardware, it better damn well not ever crash.
I had a friend who had a MAC. I used it. I made it crash. I asked him what's up with that? He told me I was using it wrong. But I thought MACs were built for ease of use? If so, how was I using it wrong? Maybe I needed to join the fanboy fanclub?
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Well, I have to agree with him, whoever fired Steve Jobs was a complete idiot who trusted the opinion of a pre suger-water-selling company CEO while dropping off one of real minds behind the technology Apple served in those days. The world would have been different.
Whether you hate or love Jobs, he did a revolution and his name will be alongside all the great names of the human history.
Human history?
Lol.
@Saad
"..be alongside all the great names of the human history."
..no comment..
@Saad "the great names of the human history."
Oh yeah? What did Steve do for me?
@Steven Uhm. Pretty much started the whole consumer computer stuff thingy.
@Saad well, he has a point zere. genghis khan has a great name in human history. so does ze fuhrer.
@Saad
For some reason, the people that replied to you really hit a nerve of mine.
Is it so in to hate on Apple now that people aren't even to admit Jobs' earlier accomplishments? Sure Jobs didn't do it alone, but just like Bill Gates, their names will most certainly be remembered for there pioneering contributions to the consumer computer industry.
To say anything less is woefully ignorant, treading into troll territory and a waste of anyone else's time.
@fernpointoh
Well said. Although, being in the comments section here is certainly a waste of time, 100% troll territory, and the birthplace of woeful ignorance. Watch how any negative comment about Apple gets highly ranked, even if it has no basis in fact & is just vitriolic jealousy. These people are still talking about the antenna every chance they get. They say Steve Jobs should be fired, and that Apple is a monopoly, an evil empire - and they do this typing away on their Windows based PC, since Microsoft is free from any evil or monopolistic tendencies.
I actually enjoy it, makes me feel better about myself to see such blatant, misinformed stupidity. I say, help engadget out & egg them on.
Oh, to stay on topic, Larry Ellison is a cool cat & he is correct.
@Joao Cagao
Not gonna lie...I had to look up what vitriolic meant.
@fernpointoh and @Joao Cagao
Thank you guys for understanding and adding to the point.
I use a PC with Windows 7, used the iPhone 3GS and now using the Samsung Galaxy S with Android. No matter what I use, I always make sure that it suits me, this doesn't mean that anybody else bad or good.
Having said all of that, I honestly believe that Steve Jobs just like Bill Gates, have both contributed to the forming of the PC age. Steve gets more credits for the fact that he went against all big companies at his time and produced with Woz a computer that can be set in any home and has a easy to use graphical interface and software.
Jobs, did a lot more than iPads, many things happened behind the scene, fighting against huge corporations would slam any strong man down and fade their dreams away, but Jobs stood strong, held hands with Woz and his small team and mass produced PC to the world. Now add to this story all the steady successful products he directed and produced and you've got yourself one of the best CEO's in the world, if not the best. A CEO to be taught about and many look up to.
So, easy on the bashing and try to learn about these people before claiming that they don't deserve to be in the books of history as some of the most influential men in human history.
@Saad
http://music.lovetoknow.com/Who_Invented_the_MP3_Player
@Saad He was design and marketing technology is more of Woz's stuff.
@Saad
How would that make Steve Jobs any different from say a CEO at a fast food company about five years ago, or a tobacco company in the 90s?
Wow. He's faced adversity, no one else has ever done that. /s
And why are you romanticizing Steve Jobs? You talk as if he's some sort of godsend. Did he code anything? No. Did he engineer anything? No.
But managing people and making arbitrary decision is very, very hard. /s
He was also fired for good reason. Instead of capturing a dominating share of the home computing market, he failed to monopolize on the opportunity and let Microsoft's software driven takeover happen.
Now he peddles product. Did his company release the first MP3 player? No. How about the first touch screen smartphone? No.
I'm no fanboy. I don't care what I use. But the above rant was triggered by Saad's post.
@worldspawn Perhaps you don't know how the first Mac was created but yes Steve Jobs did help engineer said device. And as far as marketshare your right, he didn't take advantage like Microsoft by creating the biggest pos os just to capitalize on people's stupidity. I guess we will see in the next few years.
@rhomaion
If my OS ran strictly for 1 specific set of hardware, it BETTER not have issues.
Windows is not necessarily a POS OS. Maybe ur just a POS user. But like I stated, If my OS was designed to run on 1 set of drivers and 1 set of hardware, it better damn well not ever crash.
I had a friend who had a MAC. I used it. I made it crash. I asked him what's up with that? He told me I was using it wrong. But I thought MACs were built for ease of use? If so, how was I using it wrong? Maybe I needed to join the fanboy fanclub?