Fortune Magazine has named Steve Jobs CEO of the Decade. The Apple co-founder, Apple II, Mac, iPod, iTunes, and iPhone visionary is summed up in suitably dramatic fashion:
Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities-law scandal, an also-ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.
Congrats Steve! Take a moment between tweaking the last few pixels on the iTablet icons and getting (what we hope is) the massive next generation iPhone HD OLED screen white balance just so, and enjoy.
And if anyone hasn't seen it yet, get on over to iTunes and watch Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address. He sums himself up even better than Fortune, of course.
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Steve Jobs -- CEO of the Decade
Yeyyyy!!! Steve
he deserves it..
Bill gates woulda gotten it if he was still working at Microsoft and jobs deserved it this time around but one thing I don't like about him is he seems really OCD and a litttle on the crazy side haha
good for him,
but all that great stuff they talk about doesnt change the fact that
1) His company overprices computers to the extent that most people cant justify paying double the price of a windows equivelent just because its a mac
2) The appstore approval system is a joke, that when a refund happens on the app store, apple keeps their %30 and the developer has to pick up the tab, so of course hes a billionaire many times over.
bitter? maybe. but the fact remains that they are sucsefull because they have bred an eliteest culture only seemingly available to the rich
@Ben
I love the statement "windows equivilant". As if there is such a thing. Windows is an operating system. A mac is hardware. Two completely different things, no?
@Ben
so basically since I'm a college student that has a part time job with which I saved up and bought a MacBook I'm rich? I know plenty of people that I wouldn't consider rich who pay for a mac because they are all around better computers. Just because YOU don't like the price tag doesn't mean that you van call everyone who buys a mac rich. P
Very worthy! Congratulations Steve! May you have many more years of success!
@therealtruth I believe what Ben is trying to say is that you can get a windows computer with the same specs as a mac for alot less $. The mac os is seriously overpriced. But after doing some research it also looks like it could be due to the far to expensive nvidea 9xxx! I saw windows 7 laptops with nvidea 9xxx gpus and they were all over 1000$. But other win 7 laptops with nvidea 2xx and ati 4xxx gpus were mostly UNDER 1000$! (unless you got into the high end ones). So here's to apple... Lower your prices on your desktops cuz not everyone wants to pay such an insane price for just the os. And as for the MacBooks... Change the gpus!
@Ben:
So, a person who pays $1,000 more for a computer that will last five years is rich? I know broke people who spend twice that on cigarettes EVERY year. I guess, by your standards, that makes all smokers filthy rich. :roll:
Usually when Magazines make up awards to give people they are trying to make nice for some reason.
Did fortune see Jobs as their coming savior in a sea of drowning print media?
Or do they know something about Steve's health they aren't sharing?
I must admit...even though I detest his ways...
I love Steve Jobs as a man and even more as a CEO.
He single handedly (some may argue) brought Apple back from despair. Likes and dislikes aside about Apple products, he deserves this.
My two favorite businessmen...Jobs and Gates. I want to grow up to be a combination of them both.
@Yobad
It's not the software. As you can see...software alone is cheap for Macs (OS wise)
Its really all the hardware. I will agree their hardware is top notch. Down to the last detail (with a few minor gripes)
If the price is worth it though is all a matter of personal opinion.
Seeing as a Windows computer can go up to $10,000+ in gaming rigs...it's not that expensive.
And this is coming from Mr. iDavey himself. I normally down Apple at every turn for their prices, lol.
Let's take the Macbook pro for example. We've all seen the commercials about going to best buy and people comparing the pricing to the MacBooks. Oh the hardware is the same so why is the price so much higher. I don't see any comparison between a windows laptop and an apple laptop. When your looking for a windows laptop that compares to all of the features that a MacBook Pro has your not going to find it for under $1500. 1920x1200 led screens magnetic electrical adapters. All aluminum 1 piece body thinner than any of the windows laptops. Slot loading SuperDrive. 2 video cards. Built in Bluetooth. 8 hour battery. You can't even find a windows laptop at any price, with half those features. Some things justify price.
Add ECHOPHON support! WANT TO TWEET THIS! : (
No what I was talking about is that you can get a windows laptop that has up to 8 gb of ram, a 2.6-2.8 ghz processor, and a nvidea 260 or ati 4650-4850 for around 2000$ this would slaughter the MacBook pro in gaming framerates.
And apple needs to ditch the old geforce 9xxx gpus and go for something better like a geforce 2xx. Hopefully by June they will have mobile radeon HD 5xxx for laptops and apple uses those! :)
I wish media wouldn't overfeed his ego so much. Jobs should learn to play nice with the other kids in the playground.
That said, there is not really any other company like Apple, coupling quality hardware and software and keeping the customers on a leash.
RON JEREMY SAYS GOOD JOB STEVE. RON JEREMY SAYS PUN INTENDID.
New MBPs probably coming same time they did last year. Probably with core i7s and Better video cards.
some good points raised, maybe my main gripe is the price and that apple dont make an affordable entry level. i dont care about having a wizzy graphics card to use tweetdeck etc. a mac "netbook" if one ever existed would sell like hotcakes.
if you can afford to save up and $1000 in a resonable timeframe then yes by my terms you are richer than me, try running a house, bills, kids and then find money for a mac?
After iSlate launches can you say 2 decades award. islate.org
Look guys especially gregg whose kinda getting nowhere because his argument has nothing to do with this because he is throwing in specs from mixed apple models like the thinness (macbook air) and that's really only good for web browsing so have fun with that. All I have to say is HP ENVY 15 its better than anything apples got and the price is still cheaper than the most beefed up macbook pro and it still runs circles around all of them
the ipod/iphone is great BUT why can podcasts/music be downloaded to the ipod by wifi, and only be deleted if connected to a computer? free the ipod from computers!
@SHANE
Swipe the podcast, a red delete button will pop up. Tap it. Podcast deleted. Boom. Free at last.
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