Comments on: Surprise: Apple Loves Steve Jobs and the iPhone

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:54:05 +0000

In comparison to other companies, Apple products are a 5.0.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:45:47 +0000

I love Steve Jobs, but I love Apple Fanboys more.

Seriously, how is this even a story?

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:36:29 +0000

to my boss, before you start in on this I quit, apple made me an offer you can’t match

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:10:24 +0000

@icebike:

Apple pretty much turns a blind eye to AppleTV hacking. I suspect the carrier contracts conflict with the yellowsn0w initiative of the Dev Team, otherwise they may not officially worry about that much either.

Re: Apple engineers. Microsoft and Google likely have more engineers. Really smart ones as well. Jobs can pick products, however, and drive them by force of will. That's increasingly rare in consumer electronics. (Remember, he's just as proud of what Apple hasn't released -- Microsoft would have benefitted immensely just from not releasing many of their projects).

By: icebike

icebike — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:58:18 +0000

@Rene @MikeD:

Agreed. The iPhone sprung from the engineers hired by Jobs. And Apple is the leader for the time being in the smart phone arena. (Crackberry Kevin might disagree, and at PreCentral they lie in wait).

That's not my issue with either Jobs or the iPhone, or Apple in general. (But I suspect you knew that).

Its just think Apple and the iPhone could be much much more if Apple would just stop worrying about the Dev Team, and deliver on things long promised. Heck, Apple should embrace the Dev team, mention their software as an alternative platform (sans warranty of course), and use them as an incubator.

I understand that stability is more important than new features. But there is no reason to stand in the way of things the hardware can already do. (Video, bluetooth file transfer, yadda yadda).

By: Michael R

Michael R — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:27:32 +0000

Jobs- 5.0 for his work. -1 for greed(greed "corrodes the soul" mr.jobs) -.5 for control = 3.5...not bad.

Products- I would give them a 5 but I believe apple can do better so 3.5 the iPhone is far from perfect it's still missing essential features this is not their best. Jailbroken iPhone/dev team/3rd party developers =5.0 + 1

By: miked

miked — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:22:26 +0000

Without Steve Jobs to guide and nuture Apple, I don’t think we would have the iphone, macbooks, ipods, etc.

By: Mashono

Mashono — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:15:56 +0000

Steve Jobs is probalbly the best CEO a company could have. He gets 100% for bringing the company back and leading the mighty Apple into the future with 5.0 products.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:54:10 +0000

@icebike: Jobs is a double-edged sword, without him there would be no iPhone to do more. Even some of the more interesting, more open phones we’re just beginning to see are clearly influenced by the iPhone. (And then there’s WinPho 6.5…)

By: Matt Hall's Boss

Matt Hall's Boss — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:26:35 +0000

Matt, I need you in my office NOW

By: icebike

icebike — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:25:51 +0000

Jobs: 50%. Too controlling. The man is a control freak. (And you thought Gates was bad).

Iphone 80%. Its biggest problem: See above. Can you imagine what this device could do if Steve would get out of the way!?!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:25:00 +0000

Yes, I could do with another decade or two of Steve Jobs behind the Apple helm. Can’t even imagine what he’d show off at WWDC 2017.

By: Frog

Frog — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:24:24 +0000

Steve Jobs 100%, products 4.5. iPhone battery life cost them half a point, alongside the MobileMe problems.

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:18:34 +0000

I love Steve, Apple, and the iPhone much more than my boss and our products. Don’t tell our clients though. I would happily dump my boss for Steve. I wish my loving the iphone and apple would get me paid. Then it would really be a match made in heaven.

By: jonquist

jonquist — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:06:40 +0000

Jobs: 100 % he brought the company back from near death to become a giant again. Products: 4.2 I owns lot of apple products and I love them but the definitely do have some mis-ques

By: kyleshankles

kyleshankles — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:56:53 +0000

Jobs: 500% Products: 500%

LOL thanks “Steve” good point!

By: kyleshankles

kyleshankles — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:54:01 +0000

I’m quite fond of Steve jobs. I hope he gets better can’t imagine what’s going wrong in his life. I feel for him, and the iPhone wouldn’t be here today if he wouldn’t have single handindly resurrected Apple inc. His image is the image of Apple to me.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:50:38 +0000

Steve Jobs: 100% Products: 5.0