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Originally Posted by GTS Mark
Anyone on this board that talks shit about Steve Jobs should be shot and pissed on. How in the fuck do 99% of us make our money on the Internet? Hmmmm I dunno on the hardware and devices that Steve Jobs CREATED?!!!
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Jobs created hardware / devices? That's news to me. Even at the beginning, it was others who did the heavy lifting, in particular, Steve Wozniak who was the co-founder of Apple.
Basically, Jobs was a businessman and little else. Not much different than any other big corporate CEO other than having more charisma than most and giving highly animated presentations.
99% of us using Apple stuff ... not even close unless you're only talking about art work, which is still often done on Apple branded gear, but even that's far from 99%. As for the internet - much of it runs on generic OEM hardware and non-Apple software. If one includes smart phones, same is true - Android is far more dominant than Apple even in that realm.
Apple brought some amazingly stylish computer hardware to the market for sure, and influenced popular culture, but the world would have gone on just the same without Apple...
For as big as Apple was back in the early days, they had very little influence on the business and military, and by extension very little influence of developing the internet nor the software that runs on it. Apple instead chose to aim towards the consumer and educational market, which continues to remain true even to this day.
Bottom line is Jobs lived a fascinating life and did more than most, but was by no means as influential to the industry as others - heck, Al Gore can take more credit for the internet than Jobs, and that's not saying much
Ron