Gates vs. Jobs -- Who's the greatest??? **POLL**

[BaboonGuy]

Gates is a dirty businessman 🙁.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: ViRGE
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.

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.

Slowest computers for decades? P2 era PCs were slower than Macs. It wasn't until late P3/early P4 era when the G4's started to stagnate<sp?> and the x86 world surpassed Macs in terms of raw speed. And the current G5's make the raw speed race interesting again (even more interesting if you've seen IBM's roadmap for their PPC chips).

MS purchased some non-voting stock in Apple in the mid/late '90 to try and aviod becoming an out and out monopoly. "Big-ass chunk", like the rest of your post, is not an accurate account of what happend.


Lethal