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CNN iReport: What did Steve Jobs teach you?

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SlitheryDee said:
I don't see noblesse oblige being material in this argument. Neither of them seemed to claim nobility. One gave a lot more to charity, but I'm never going to blame someone for not giving to charity. Earn it and do with it what you will.
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Indeed but, I'm going to forgive dickheadedness more much readily in Bill Gate's case than I will in Steve Jobs case. His arrogance went so far as to assume he could fight cancer without consulting physicians apparently.
 
zerocool84 said:
Well with all the good Gates has done for the world outside of technology, all that money he's donated and charities opened, etc, it's easier to overlook his monopolistic practices.
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Yeah, Europe didn't let him off as easily as the U.S. did... iirc.
 
blankslate said:
^these.

Not to mention that it's ok to screw your associate and real technical brains Steve Wozniak out of his share of the profits for the "greater good"


It seems that enough time has (thankfully) passed that we can finally call out this inventive ass for all the dipshit moves he pulled with people.

Yeah, there probably is a market for electronics for the less technically inclined.
Although the move to a unix based OS was a good one as a selling point who want to work with one.
Too bad Steve Jobs was the one to benefit from getting into that market.



Yeah we would have had to wait longer for affordable smart phones as we know them now but there were already glimmerings of ideas before steve jobs introduced the iphone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada

After a touch screen phone is successful it's a matter of time before a tablet is introduced.

Dell introduced a 5 inch android based phone a while back that if it had been any larger could have blurred the lines between smart phones and tablets.
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Not to mention back when netbooks were first coming out there was the Touchbook, a dockable 8.9" ARM Cortex A8 based tablet with a customized *nix os except back then no one wanted a system without Windows.
 
He had a knack for making technology "user friendly and sexy" for the non-geeks of the world and he [and his team] were VERY lucky to be in the right places at the right times during his career/life.
 
TuxDave said:
Everything in here:
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
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He kind of lied in that speech about his illness. At this juncture according to the book, he knew that he had cancer and told everyone that he was cancer free. I guess in his world of distorted reality, he thought that he could believe anything into reality. Unfortunately that doesn't work, but that's also what made him a great CEO by having people bring products to reality exactly what he envisioned them to be.
 
That someone can be in a position to run a company and see innovations that others have made (dual touch, etc) and then bring those things together to make a new product. Not bad considering the iTouch was 2 weeks away from getting canned at Apple at one point.

That when people are in the right place at the right time that they will be hailed as gods. But people ignore the FACT that if Steve didn't come up with the iPhone idea someone else would have within 5 years.

What he did was cool I guess but he is not special.
 
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