34: Steve Jobs

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  Posted By: SLIPSHINE @ 12/30/2008 3:03:30 PM

  STEVE JOBS IS GREAT FOR APPLE FOR SURE - BUT POWERFULL IN THE WORLD.
  NOPE DONT SEE IT. HOW ABOUT THE GATES FOUNDATION WICH HAS FINANCIAL
  BACKING AND A WORLD PRESENCE.

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  Posted By: Tabi @ 12/24/2008 9:23:48 PM

  As much as Steve Jobs may be a good CEO, it is gushing praises like this that make possible the bloated CEO egos and compensations. Steve Jobs exists as the head of an organization. He may be at the top, but he is supported by a whole legion of Apple workers. Steve Job certainly deserves some credit, but it is all shared credit.

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  Posted By: kestudila @ 12/22/2008 11:46:03 PM

  Very true. The iMac was a hit way before the iPod, and even started the "iEverything" moniker craze. But I would venture that the earliest and deepest contribution the second-coming Steve Jobs made to the Apple ecosystem was the NextStep operating system, which he brought over from Next and had deftly reshaped into OS X. Remember how baffled we were at the time, all drooling over the dazzling but unfinished BeOS? Jobs was right, and captained the difficult transition with characteristic mastery. Today, OS X is the central force of Apple, driving the healthy growth of the Mac, iPod (with the touch, other models to follow) and iPhone product lines.