Steve Jobs wasnt great..?

Ajit Hegde

I cant agree with it. Found this in Facebook. what you guys say.? http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_comment-steve-jobs-wasnt-great-he-wasnt-even-close_1596888

Firo Atrum Ventus

I don't know, the photo in that newspaper is different from what google showed me.

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CalvinHobbies

eh, he was ok. course he could have called the next day. at least sent flowers or something... not like I wasn't up all hours, coding, waiting, wondering... wishing he'd call.. WHY WON'T HE CALL DAMMIT!! (ok, slightly bad taste, the cheekiness was there though. :-\ )

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Lost User

I do think that the point is valid. What exactly did he do to be 'great'? There are many successful businessmen. Are they also all 'great'?

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CalvinHobbies wrote:

WHY WON'T HE CALL DAMMIT!!

He's with Leslie Nielson now...

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CalvinHobbies

Nagy Vilmos wrote:

CalvinHobbies wrote:

WHY WON'T HE CALL DAMMIT!!

He's with Leslie Nielson now...

Ok, now THAT man was great.

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OriginalGriff

Steve Jobs was a marketeer. He invented nothing new, but apple re-packaged things that already existed in a slightly different form, and marketed them extremely well. Don't get me wrong, they were good products, but they weren't that good - and they weren't new or unique. As company bosses went, he did his job very well - Apple made him a lot of money. Which was the point of the exercise...

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Pete OHanlon

Why do you think he's great? Rather than post a link and just say you don't agree, why don't you elucidate and elaborate on what makes that article wrong and you right? As to the point - do I think he was a great business man? Yes. Do I think he was a great technological innovator? No. Do I think he identified a team that came up with designs that the consumer wants? Yes. Do I think he was a great human being? No. Do I think he helped push the industry forward? Yes.

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Sander Rossel

No one is great. We're all just people. Sure some people can inspire others, and surely people that are somehow famous can inspire lots more people (simply because many more people know them). But overall I'd say he's not better or worse than the next person. He just did what he did, made some right decisions and got famous for it. And people who inspire one person can still be a total ass for the next. That said, I can actually conclude that I am the greatest ever. I influence myself in anything I do and without me I wouldn't be me! I am so inspiring to me! :D

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Lost User

Should anyone want a link to an article rather than a photo of a bit of a newspaper, then here it is[^]. Although I wouldn't bother reading it, had a scan through and he seems to be comparing Apple products to the polio vaccine.

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OriginalGriff

You are probably the greatest Naerling ever. Well, one of them, anyway. :laugh:

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hairy_hats

Why don't you get a single room?

Nagy Vilmos

And you are the greatest ever cat owning welsh CPian.

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Lost User

That passage talks more of Polio invention. Not Apple.

I only read newbie introductory dummy books.

OriginalGriff

In a field of one, I assume? :-D

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wout de zeeuw

I personally have more respect for people actually doing something than for people writing about others doing something.

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Lost User

When two people are so great, they will not fit into a single room :)

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Graham Shanks

Naerling wrote:

No one is great

Alexander the Great? Alfred the Great? Anybody named Augustus (means great[^]) or Magnus (also means great[^])?

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Sander Rossel

If I call myself Naerling the superprogrammer does that make me a superprogrammer too? :D

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Pascal Ganaye

We would have expected Jobs to put some of his in money Cancer research. I can understand the article author point. Howerver I don't think this is the right timing to write this.