[PugetSoundSoldier]

Gates has the market sewn up ... but Steve Jobs truly INNOVATES. They are like two sides of the same coin.

Please name an innovation from Steve Jobs.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Gates has the market sewn up ... but Steve Jobs truly INNOVATES. They are like two sides of the same coin.

Please name an innovation from Steve Jobs.

Apple II.

First mass-market GUI OS.

iPod

Basically, Apple adds features and quality to known products, producing not perhaps the best that can be made, and not the one which will sell the biggest market share - but the best mass-market products in category. And bends the categories, too.

But he is so good at making and marketing the best mass-market digital devices that he practically invented that market niche. He leaves the niche of "largest volume" to Microsoft et al - and still has a bigger gross, and market cap, of any digital device maker.

[antiRepublicrat]

Please name an innovation from Steve Jobs.

For one, cramming a workable, improved version of the Xerox Alto into a small, normally-priced desktop computer. If you mean actual patents, I believe he has design patents on those slim, magnetic, light-weight power adapters Apple uses, and on the iPad. He's also listed on iPhone patents, and has a patent on fasteners for the glass staircases at the Apple stores.

I think the hockey-puck iMac mouse was his idea too, but that's not something to brag about. Everybody has his duds.