Your opinion: Steve Jobs or Bill Gates
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Not sure what any of this has to do with comparing Gates' and Jobs' performance within their respective companies and industries. Surely you're not suggesting that every Microsoft employee has always been 100% happy?
Mike Mullikin wrote:
Surely you're not suggesting that every Microsoft employee has always been 100% happy?
No, just thought it was interesting. I read (last month) Paul Allen's autobiography[^] and it detailed a lot about Gates personality that was similar to Jobs and it finally drove Allen to leave the company. However, I do think Gates seemed to learn / examine what his personality did where it seems like Jobs just kept driving down the same road.
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An interesting contrast: Bill Gates became a Billionaire in 1987 (age 32) from his work at the company (Microsoft) he cofounded, making him the youngest self-made billionaire in history. Steve Jobs became a Billionaire in 1995 (age 40) not from the company he founded but from Pixar. Just now reading this article for the first time and it is very good: How Steve Jobs Became a Billionaire[^] Some very interesting quotes from the article:
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“Steve doesn’t get Pixar,” Pam went on. “We’re artsy and creative. We’re like a family. We hug. And we’re not a top-down organization; everyone here has a voice.”
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“Steve is the guy who owns us—but he’s never been one of us,” Pam explained. “We’ve long felt unvalued, unappreciated. People worry that if he gets too close, he’ll ruin Pixar, and destroy our culture. And now, you’re the guy he has sent to whip us into shape.”
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“Plus,” Pam added, “He’s broken promises. And people are angry about that.”
thanks, that was a nice read. Oh but I so want to jab about my view that having stocks and investments is a totally meaningless value until sold. The prospect of having a billion is not the same as having a billion. I got 2 bitcoin. It is worth (what ever value is now) to someone else. I do not have that money.
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
Sorry, lad - no hero worship here. All the real work was done by the developers who made things useful, both within their respective companies, and by far more importantly, everyone else who developed. The "open source" for computer parts (for those products, i.e., IBM PC style) allowed reduced pricing via competition and thus increased accessibility ===> popularity. So give the Kudos to IBM and the others who made a "PC" template that stuck!
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thanks, that was a nice read. Oh but I so want to jab about my view that having stocks and investments is a totally meaningless value until sold. The prospect of having a billion is not the same as having a billion. I got 2 bitcoin. It is worth (what ever value is now) to someone else. I do not have that money.
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
They both suck, like this question. Also Sheryl Crow. :laugh:
Ehh! It seems I will reply to ANYTHING...
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There is no problem, Apple is very successful. I just don't like it. Consider Microsoft windows. The possibilities to build a machine that will run it are endless. Android is available on all kinds of different devices from thousands of vendors. Apple has two or three iPhones, two or three laptops and two or three desktops, very limited opportunities to customise them. That is why I never bought personally an Apple device and use them only because my work requires it. In other words, Apple is a hardware company first and I'm a software guy.
The OP asked about Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates, not Apple vs MS. From a software perspective, Steve Jobs took the ideas from Xerox PARC and brought the desktop UI to the masses. Bill Gates ran down the street and bought the rights to DOS. Later on, Steve Jobs brought us the iPhone while Bill Gates was retired or something. I really don't think its even close.
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Gotta love the classics :cool:.
Software Zen:
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
Neither. By all accounts they both encouraged a 'corporate culture' of 80-hour work weeks and at-all-costs delivery schedules that destroyed the personal lives of far more engineers than they ever made wealthy.
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
Gates because he could program, and so valued software... built a ~Bliinndingly! Successful business around faith in it, and the value it can create. Jobs sold hardware. Software was a means to that end for him, not the end. I always hated how closed and controlling Apple was/is. It's too arrogant of a position for my tastes.
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Alright, let's just say I prefer a Microsoft PC over an IBM mainframe or whatever they are building just as much as I would prefer it over an apple Mac :) As for HP, the rumours they have are out of this world :) [HP's New Supercomputer Is Up to 8,000 Times Faster Than Existing PCs](https://www.sciencealert.com/hp-s-new-supercomputer-is-up-to-8-000-times-faster-than-existing-pcs) I still wait to get my hands on one of those for Christmas :laugh:
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
To leave some summary comments: Most of the focus was on the businesses of Apple and Microsoft. No one mentioned Gates shift toward philanthropy once he could (mostly) leave Microsoft to its own devices and give curing the next (insert what being worked on now). Contrast that with Jobs which had not signed up to the Giving Pledge group. As people - lots said about Jobs' personality, but some comments provided that Gate's not a shining angle either. And i will leave this final thought: If one of them had not existed, would the other be as successful in their own right as they have been?
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....
Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Steve Jobs. Gates gave us BASIC and an OS he stole from Jobs (who copied it from Xerox). Which was better at pong? I would guess Jobs because he once worked at Atari, but I don't say that with authority since I never saw either play. Who was the better CEO? Jobs. A good manager gets his workers to do what he wants, regardless of the method (rewards, threats, whatever). Apple WAS Jobs; Microsoft had various factions infighting. Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Gates probably helped developers more; after all, he complained about open source, created the idea of software licensing, etc. Jobs provided more to society. Apple provided the first commercially successful microcomputer, the first commercially successful GUI, the only commercially successful "music box", and the model for EVERY cellphone today (Android is more popular than iPhone, but anyone saying it didn't start as a copy of iPhone is just lying). Who was smarter? Bill Gates. Created an empire; perfected "embrace, extend, extinguish"; still looked like a rock when compared to Jobs' charisma, salesmanship and con-man ability. Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? I've seen a lot of different women named, and I'd agree with ANY of them over these two.
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum. So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates" Be it: Who has provided more influence in the tech industry? Which was better a pong? Who was the better CEO? Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions? Who was smarter? Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans? ....