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Little premature to be awarding a "CEO of the Decade" isn't it?

Good point, there's still at least three weeks of the current decade for someone else to pip him to the post :). Unless you're being one of those sad geeks who argued against 2000 being the beginning of the millennium when the rest of the world celebrated it in 2000? :).

Personally, the man deserves it. Any CEO who can extract that much cash from consumers for the benefit of shareholders over such a long time should be awarded something. Congratulations!
 
Personally, the man deserves it. Any CEO who can extract that much cash from consumers for the benefit of shareholders over such a long time should be awarded something. Congratulations!

I hope you also saw all the other things he did besides just making shareholders happy? :D
 
Well deserved. So many achievements.

1. The ipod

2. OS X

3. The first real smart phone.

4. The ipad which replaced the netbook market.


And don't forget Apple's actions made other companies better. If it weren't for the OS X, we'd be stuck with vista service pack 100 and still unhappy. From what I hear, Windows did a better job with the latest OS (whatever it is called). They had to in response to Apple's superior product.

Now we see Adobe Flash exposed for the poor product it is. Adobe is now actually trying to make that better. Hopefully for everyone they do.


Now I'm waiting for Apple to get into personal robots 10-15 years from now.
 
Did any of you catch this in the article:

Adds Enderle: “He is not somebody [who] any one of us would want watching our kids, but, in terms of running the company, he’s excellent.”

WTF?
 
Congratulations Mr. Jobs!

He probably could care less!

Hey why doesn't someone email him and ask how it feels, lets see if he responds!

I would but were not on speaking terms right now!
 
No question about it, Steve & apple deserve this. This guy has set the standards for just about everything electronic that we have come to love. Most of all he is a good leader with his own people as well as every company wanting to follow him. Take a bow TEAM USA-:apple: all the way.
 
... in the future, we will all remember who started it all.

I think you are exaggerating a bit - none of that was "Started" by Apple - that credit goes to Palm I think. Apple popularized it and everyone else made it mainstream.
 
Love or Hate Him - You Gotta Respect What He Had Done

I don't agree with some of the things has Apple has done recently:

1) Removing FW off MacBook Pro 15 and then being forced to add it back
2) Removing tactile feel button off iPod shuffle and then being forced to add it back
3) Destroying the iPod Nano after it's design seemed almost perfect
4) etc.

That being said. I can think of NOBODY whom I respect more in the private business sector than Steve Jobs. The man has stayed true to his vision and as a result of his vision and will, the world has benefitted from well engineered and innovative products.

This man leads, and everyone else rushes in to imitate and follow.
 
Congratulations Mr. Jobs!

He probably couldN'T care less!

Hey why doesn't someone email him and ask how it feels, lets see if he responds!

I would but were not on speaking terms right now!

Fixed that for ya! ;)
 
3) Destroying the iPod Nano after it's design seemed almost perfect

I'm sorry, I much prefer my new Nano (6th gen) over the 5th gen Nano. shoot, I prefer the form of the 3rd gen Nano over any of the stick Nanos... why do you people like the stick form anyways? It is awkward, the click wheel was so small it was annoying to use (if you just wanted to go one menu away it was really hard to get it to move one click), and I find I am using more features on the new Nano despite it having less features cause they are easier accessed with the touch screen interface. And I just use my remote headphones for when I need physical buttons (which I found was also easier to use to fast forward/rewind/pause than the stupid tiny clickwheel on the fifth gen nano). I'd say the design was totally *not* perfect (I was disappointed it went to a stick form after the third gen Nano and I love now that it can clip onto my pants when I walk and yet I don't have to compromise space or ease of picking playlists/songs cause it has a display unlike the shuffle).

I personally think the 6th gen nano was a great idea. If you needed a video camera, buy an ipod touch. It's got a much better screen for that kind of stuff anyways and it really isn't that much bigger than the fifth gen Nano.
 
Did any of you catch this in the article:

Adds Enderle: “He is not somebody [who] any one of us would want watching our kids, but, in terms of running the company, he’s excellent.”

WTF?

That's just Enderle's usual character assassination technique. He's got nothing substantial to say negatively about Steve Jobs, so he gives him a compliment while simultaneously implying something awful about his personality. Let the reader fill in the details with their imagination, but nobody can call him on libel.
 
I think you are exaggerating a bit - none of that was "Started" by Apple - that credit goes to Palm I think. Apple popularized it and everyone else made it mainstream.

Newton came first.

Although it bombed, Apple learned from its mistakes and came through in the second go around.

Palm was only relevant because it created an effective hand-writing recognition system. It held too closely to its bread and butter technology. It did not innovate anything beyond that until it was too late. Now its IP is being bastardized by HP management in attempts to compete against..... Apple. Palm held the flame going for a little bit, but ultimately, they did not execute properly.
 
CEO of the decade, for sure. But the Edison/Bell comparisons are unwarranted. Both of these gents instigated infrastructure transformations that formed much of the basis of the world's economic growth over the 20th Century. I don't think the App Store is in the same league as far as infrastructure is concerned. The other Apple innovations this decade have validated emerging market segments, which is important; but I don't see these consumer product classifications generating major ripples through history the way "electrification" or "telephony" did.

Oh, I think that he's up there, frankly. Forget the isolated products: he's redesigned what a phone IS. What a music player IS. And the iTunes infrastructure, which gives access to legal digital content, is the market-changer.

Edison was, yes, an inventor. But he developed the light bulb (good one, that!) and the first distribution system -- but not the one that won. He went DC, while the winning development was AC. Records and movies could be denigrated much the same way the iPod and iPhone are, but it's also interesting that Edison mostly constructed a huge interlocking web of patents to protect his enterprises. Movies didn't develop until Hollywood got strong enough to fight off those patents.

Jobs has captured the public imagination in much the same way that Edison did.

I'd say only Ford surpasses him at the moment.
 
wish I had those shares...

I wonder if Forrest Gump still has all those shares that were bought for him....
 
Now I'm waiting for Apple to get into personal robots 10-15 years from now.

If Jonny Ive is still with Apple at that point, that would be really exciting. If you'll recall, he was asked to help design EVE for the movie WALL-E.

(Other Apple things pop up in that movie, too, including an old-style Apple keyboard behind WALL-E's rows of collected ephemera and of course WALL-E's "Battery Full" sound.)
 
Little premature to be awarding a "CEO of the Decade" isn't it?


If you think a decade begins on a 0, then it's over 11 months over due. If you think a decade begins on a 1, it's only a couple of weeks premature, so who cares.
 
He needs to be phasing in successor(s)
that have as many of the attributes
(effective in business, perfectionist about
design, generates lots of interest, maybe
others) as would be needed to continue an approach based on products that are easier and more elegant rather than just commodity bottom-feeders like so many others.

At any one time, perhaps it's got to be one person that's accountable, but long-term success cannot be a one-man show, even if that one man had a perfect health record and magically didn't age.
 
Yes he's a brilliant man that has played the game well. He's used the latitude for corruption, deception and a distinct lack of ethics, in our society, to his and Apple's advantage. There's nothing unique about that type of technique either, as many are rewarded for slippery dealings as long as they "show us the money".

Hate is something I have no time for. It's a wasted emotion that doesn't apply in nearly every case. A guy like jobs is not someone I would hate, just a guy I don't happen to agree with. Again nothing new, as the world would be a really dull place if we all agreed.

What impresses me, is the way that some CEO's do a great job in a responsible, ethical, honest way. They avoid the temptation of being corrupt, of using deception and slight of hand. Those are the true champions in my opinion. I would truly like to see Steve Jobs operate in this fashion.

Don't get me wrong I _really liked_ the man Steve Jobs was... in the early days of Apple.

I just don't care for how he has morphed into his present day persona. His extreme arrogance and narcissistic ways. Someone who's only accomplishment at this point is creating the cash cow that is Apple.

Personally if the "old Steve Jobs" was at the helm of Apple, the company would be even MORE Successful, it would Generate MORE Revenue!

And it would be VOID of the annoyances of his condescending attitude ("you're holding it wrong") towards those customers who have PAID the money that has made Apple what it is.

That said, here are three examples of why many thousands upon thousands of people feel the same way that I do about Jobs.



Report: "Apple, Steve Jobs, Executives, Board, Sued for Securities Fraud"

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802018

Report: "Jerome York “Disgusted” that Jobs Concealed Health Problems"

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/arti...isgusted_that_jobs_concealed_health_problems/

Report: "Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...jobs-last-year-about-iphone-antenna-flaw.html
 
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