On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doug wrote: > > He came up with some pretty clever, attractive products. > > didn't Henry Ford come up with some pretty clever products? (Also, > aren't "clever" Apple products more expensive and harder for the user > to fix without "genius" help than, say, PCs?) > > I'm thinking of starting a cult of personality surrounding Bill Gates.... > I think Henry Ford's assembly line is more akin to Microsoft than to Apple. Jobs never concealed his contempt for MS. Apple represents craftsmanship, MS represents cheap imitations. It is true that Apple products are difficult to fix when they break, but that's a design tradeoff - you can either have beautiful, nicely packaged products, or you can have a modular design with easily interchangeable parts, but not both. Bill Gates enjoys a certain celebrity among b-school types - as do such imbeciles as Jack Welch. These guys will never come anywhere close to Jobs in the public esteem. The only historical figure who seems comparable to Jobs is Thomas Edison. -raghu.
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