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noonespecial, Great point, I think history is going to be much kinder to Gates than the present. It is funny, Steve Jobs probably has the best product instinct
by replicatorblog 18y ago
noonespecial,
Great point, I think history is going to be much kinder to Gates than the present. It is funny, Steve Jobs probably has the best product instincts of any executive of the last 50 years but never really "made" anything. As far as I know he didn't actually do anything technical at Apple, it sounds like his Atari days were pretty light too. Hard to argue with genius though.
- joe_bleau 18y agoMaybe I'm just a Jobs-hater, but it's always astonished me that someone so much a part of the initial personal computer revolution couldn't program. ( http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Shut_Up.txt&topic=Microsoft&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... )
- replicatorblog 18y agoIt is astonishing, also not a designer, but the best hardware designs by far are Apple. I think if Gates is the archetypal Programmer as CEO then Jobs is the archetypal "Product Manager" as CEO. He may not be able to implement, but he sure knows how to write a spec.