I’m curious as to what the reaction would have been had it been Bill Gates instead of Steve Jobs?
Both were giants, regardless of which side you were on in the PC vs. Mac debate, certainly Bill Gates would have deserved all of the kudos that Steve Jobs received.
But somehow I don’t think that would have been the case.
“Both were giants, regardless of which side you were on in the PC vs. Mac debate, certainly Bill Gates would have deserved all of the kudos that Steve Jobs received.
But somehow I don’t think that would have been the case.”
Good point. I suppose it’s in part because the gadgets Gates invented didn’t become objects of idolatry by millions of shallow worshippers.
Good question (and your answer too.)
Gates didn't (doesn't) have the drive. Look, he took the money and ran to Africa carrying mosquito nets, another guilt ridden liberal. Jobs if he lived and by some odd chance got fired again from Apple, would have gone on to start another company, right? Gates didn't so much conceptualize and invent as he stole. Gates gave us deeply flawed products, and over engineered products (Office). Gates was (isn't no more) a geek, while Jobs was, as many have observed, an artist.
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“I’m curious as to what the reaction would have been had it been Bill Gates instead of Steve Jobs?”
Much more of a shrug, since BG hasn’t been (take your pick) either centrally involved at MS for years, or has been quite ineffective at finding hit products, which Apple has been pumping our regularly.
“Both were giants, regardless of which side you were on in the PC vs. Mac debate, certainly Bill Gates would have deserved all of the kudos that Steve Jobs received.”
Well, one deserves the past tense, and not the one that just passed away.
BG doesn’t deserve the same respect at all. His family connections were central to his success. Not so with SJ. His company has been feeding off Apple technology for decades. Apple has literally been MS’ research division. Further, MS success over the last several years has not even remotely compared to Apple’s. Apple is now the #1 company on the US stock market, where Microsoft has lost its once premier position and is way down in the middle of the pack.
I hope this clears things up for you. :-)
I also meant to make the point that this headline (and thought) are both ridiculous.
Steve Jobs certainly never claimed to be God (or a god), and in fact was rather humble all things considered. I strongly suggest anyone desiring to learn more about Steve Jobs the man listen to Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement speech. It is excellent, and should give some food for thought.
I think what people are losing sight of is that Jobs' influence extends far beyond Apple's own products. Microsoft was not working on a GUI until they saw prototype Macs. MP3 was a fringe technology before the iPod. No one paid for it (there was no way to) before iTunes. Smartphones before the iPhone had tiny screens, WAP browsers and styluses. Tablets before the iPad had desktop operating systems, and again with the damn styluses.
In each of those cases, the Apple product drew a sharp line across the calendar, dividing the history of those technologies into the epochs before and after. When Henry Ford decided to mass-produce an affordable car for the middle class, that affected everyone who later bought a Chevy. Others follow, some more successfully in terms of units shipped and money made, but we tend to remember those who blaze the trails.
Job’s products influenced me more than Gates’. I basically owe my career to Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, because their early products (IIe) got me interested in computers and programming.
I only use Gates’ products because that is what my company requires me to use. At home I use OS X and Linux, and I’d use them at work if I could.
But I respect MS and Bill Gates, and I will definitely give him kudos.
Gates’ products never registered with their users on a personal level. That’s why there likely won’t be this sort of response when Gates dies.