When Mr. Jobs took over Apple, its share price (adjusted for splits) was in the neighborhood of $3. Today it is at $113. I don't agree with Jobs on most political issues, but the man is no idiot.
Sorry but backing Al Whore shows that he is....
If Gore gets elected, I won't be able to buy the new Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro I've been lusting after. It's going to be illegal to buy laptops that run on electricity.
you really ought to do your homework, Mr. Soros.
Jobs may be a political idiot, but he makes a great computer.
The reason the Apple has been successful has less to do with Jobs and more to do with their habit of hiring brilliant people to actually do the work of making good marketable products.
Jobs was in the original core of guys that made the mistakes that put
Apple dead last in manufacturers of computers for a few years too. They’ve always been a software company that fancied itself as a hardware company. That us why they remain a minor player. Jobs et al could have been where Microsoft is, but he blew it.
I work in a company also awash in brilliant people. A third of our staff have a PhD in the pure sciences. We’ve been successful too, but even our leadership understands that its not their brilliance that has brought success but the brilliance of the rank and file that’s really done it.
With regard to Mr. Jobs, his name brought some investors back to the fold, and his basic competence at listening to good advice has seen the company recover from oblivion. But smarts are context-sensitive. Many idiots can manage a company, but fewer can offer opinion that means anything useful in the real world.
Nope, it's the people buying $200 iPods rather than $50 MP3 players from other manufacturers who are the idiots.
All that aside, I sure hope Gorebot runs, it would fracture the Rats at the time that the Republicans would be uniting behind Fred Thompson.