Gates vs. Jobs -- Who's the greatest??? **POLL**
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Bill Gates by far. I don't want to get into a debate, but Apple/Jobs had a great opportunity in the late 70's/early 80's and they blew it. Bill Gates was/is a smart man and outclassed everyone.
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ViRGE
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Jobs. Gates is great, he has a very distinct and powerful buisness sense, but Jobs flat out has more charisma(see: Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field), and more importantly, Jobs and the team he leads are far more the innovators than Microsoft, and I'd rather take the later than the former.
Didn't Al Gore invent the intArweb?
Seriously, I don't think it's a fair comparison, but if a gun was pointed to my head, and was forced to choose, I would sat Bill Gates. He is a very smart business man, and this can be seen in out everday lives. Don't get me wrong, I love apple/mac, but Gates is just the smarter business man,
Seriously, I don't think it's a fair comparison, but if a gun was pointed to my head, and was forced to choose, I would sat Bill Gates. He is a very smart business man, and this can be seen in out everday lives. Don't get me wrong, I love apple/mac, but Gates is just the smarter business man,
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Bill gates. He's influenced the computing industry to a much more significant degree and has a powerful market share vs. table scraps being all that steve blowjobs has been having for years now. And the history of stealing this and that I don't care about. Microsoft is far richer, and far more influencial than steve blowjobs' company. PWNED.
gates...his dream of world domination has come true
jobs failed and is stuck with silly looking computers.
jobs failed and is stuck with silly looking computers.
Bill Gates has had more financial<sp?> success, but if Steve Jobs and Bill Gates died tomorrow I think Jobs' death would be a greater loss to the computer world than Gates'.
Lethal
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charisma has nothing to do with someone's success. it might help them become successful but having it doesn't equal success. and if apple are such innovators, how come they've had the slowest, most expensive computers on the market for decades? although i guess you could call tricking people into buying them despite those things being pretty successful.
and of course, the end all: microsoft owns a big-ass chunk of apple. not the other way around.
ViRGE
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Considering the open-ended nature of the question, I think charisma's a valid thing to list; let's face it, Bill Gates is about as exciting to listen to as paint is to watch dry.
As for Apple's innovation, I really don't see an argument here; they do have a lot of innovation(and a lot of copying them as a result), but even I'm going to agree that their machines are slow for the price, but that's PPC development holding them back more than their own fault(they could switch to x86 mind you, but for numerous reasons, that's a bad idea), so in the mean time they'll sell slower machines at a higher price to bankroll their innovation.PS Microsoft does not own any part of Apple; they haven't for a few years now
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