What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

Truthyness — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:25:55 GMT

I love Apple products, and I'm a 13 year Windows Programmer that started with Bill's beloved Visual Basic 1.0. It made my career. But I converted to OSX since the Vista fiasco and run Windows Apps on my OSX using VMWare Fusion without a hitch. Better the PCs ran Windows themselves. But this article is so very very true. Steve is an ass. A talented ass at that, but still smelly all the same.

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

Cazador1972 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:00:20 GMT

Steve Jobs is a freak of nature, I admire the hell out out oh him... But couldn't they have chosen a less "festive" picture of him? Not that there's anything wrong with it!

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minervio — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:03:37 GMT

I wold not count on a terminal disease, people can loose weight for benign hormonal imbalances, for instance hyperthyroidism. I think this article is biased against Steve Job, it is his health after all, and even if he wants to die being still at the helm, that does not qualify him for an "unclassy" one.

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Shelley37860 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:43:32 GMT

What is he? A woman?

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AmericanHistorian — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:05:36 GMT

Man, is that ever a wrong-headed article about Steve Jobs. Faulting Jobs for NOT leaving the computer industry, as Gates has done, to "help the poorest people in the world," is like faulting Oprah Winfrey for not being Mother Teresa. There are many paths to greatness. We should admire Gates for devoting his energies to health care, certainly. But there is a nobility too in a life-long devotion to a craft that one loves. Writing as a sixty-seven year old historian, still hard at work, still hoping that my best classes and my best books lie in the future, I have the greatest respect for a person who does not see fifty-four as old age. Steve Jobs has brought and is bringing technological wonders to millions of consumers and substantial profits to thousands of investors -- all on a salary during the past few years of only one dollar per year. Steve Jobs is one classy human being; so is Bill Gates -- alas, that cannot be said of the author of this sleazy article!

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notherdude — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:28:22 GMT

That Jobs is a grade A narcissistic a hole is a well established fact even the iFlock will acknowledge and his behavior here is no exception. He is also, for whatever reason, the driving force behind Apple's success. Though he himself is not a technical guy it's his vision and motivational power that turned a moribund Apple into the powerhouse it is today. More than any business leader anywhere the fate of the company rests on his shoulders. This is all established fact.

Yes, it's your business how your health is doing but not when the fate of the company, it's employees, and millions of stockholders is also riding on it! As the author points out this is not about Jobs and his personal struggle against cancer, it's about the fate of a giant corporation. That a bunch of life sucking journalists are ready to jump all over his poor, thin frame is just a necessary evil. I don't blame him for hating that but he owes the rest of us better.

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

cecchi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:42:02 GMT

Article from the Sartirical UK website www.dailymash.co.uk :

Warning: contains strong language:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1489&Itemid=59

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

jamcur — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:06:20 GMT

The "Senior Writer for Technology" at Newsweek seems so incredibly ignorant about Apple and his beyond rude comments about someone he certainly does not know personally, he needs to announce his replacement immediately so there will be a smooth transition to someone who actually actually is substantive in their writings about technology! (Breath!) Thanks for a complete waste of an article.

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Repubssuck — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:11:26 GMT

The GOP party of hate didn't lose any time in criticizing Leon's appointment. Bush/Cheney/Rice must be on the verge of soiling their collective underwear, knowing that all of their dirty deeds will be made public. I hope Dick Cheney has room for all of them in his bunker.

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

DavidM9001 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:53 GMT

What would apple be like with out Jobs?

Hopefully out of business.

You state in the artical that MS makes crappy software.

How you ever seen how bad OSX is at security and stability?

Have you seen how often macbooks have hardware failures?

Try Googleing macbookrandomshutdown syndrom and then tell me which company makes crappy products.

And yes Jobs is an egomaniac and will take apple with him to the grave.

Dave

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Slow Moving Fun Seeker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:28:19 GMT

What crappy comments about Steve Jobs. The article reads like someone who is trying to get even with someone else, not an article that provides worthwhile analysis or commentary on a subject. Get a life!

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jonassloan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:38:39 GMT

Another poor article from Newsweek that does not pertain to real news. This site is just about click throughs. Ive made it a point to never click on any ads on this site. Pity because the world news stories are decent, but commentaries like this reveal an immature side.

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ifstone — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:58:53 GMT

Lyons is essentially right about Steve Jobs, even if he could be slightly less cold about it under the circumstances.

But I wouldn't draw sharp distinctions between Jobs and Bill Gates. It's true that Microsoft handled CEO succession much more smoothly, and Gates and Ballmer have always been smarter businessmen than anyone who's ever run Apple. (How else could they have foisted their mediocre software on the world?) But how soon we forget the antitrust case, Gates' appalling video deposition, and the company's evasions of responsibility and remedies. Jobs and Gates are both spoiled narcissists, though Jobs at least had the humbling experience of some years in the wilderness.

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ponds — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:12:32 GMT

I thought you were funny during your fakestevejobs role. Now, you're outright slimy spilling nothing but vengeance over an icronic figure. Get a life and move on.......

re: What Would Apple Be Without Steve Jobs?

rgalante — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:11:28 GMT

Wait, aren't you the Daniel Lyons who wrote books and posted in blogs and faked you were Steve Jobs to help your career? Aren't you the Daniel Lyons who said it "knocked the wind out of you" after using Steve Jobs's name and likeness to forward your own carreer to see how sick he was in person in July 2008? I guess you got enough wind back to write this shameless hit piece on Steve - while he may be dying. Using Steve to further your career wasn't enough? Now you need to attempt to put down one of the founding fathers of the computer industry? You're quite a man Daniel. You and newsweek should be really proud of yourself.

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