sept 15th
when the history of the computer industry is written one day, steve jobs will hold a stellar place in it, in my opinion: he has done far more than many others, including bill gates and michael dell, to make the industry such an indispensable part of modern life.
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4400796
ps. the 1984 mac ad, shown just once during the superbowl, is an absolute classic. jobs is a marketing genius.
2 comments:
I am not sure Steve Jobs is such a great guy. not wanting to license Mac OS, he left the whole earth to be taken over by the windoze OS and look what we have got now?,viruses,worms.
and now he is going to make a whole generation of youth go deaf by the age of 50 , why ? the IPOD. new research has been published on the craze of the loud music making you deaf.
randhir,
no, i havent read the book or seen the movie.
but i was in the industry in 1984, and then ibm was what microsoft is today: the company that everyone is scared of. so jobs was just running with the crowd. it was after 1990 or so that microsoft really began to take off, after windows came out. dos sucked so badly that the mac was just head and shoulders above it.
it is true, though, that gates (and andy grove) had the vision to monetize monopolies in a big way. in 1986, nobody thought the os was worth anything. famous last words!
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