Why Steve Jobs is still important

[Mac Reporter]

C|Net News reports:
by George Colony, CEO, Forrester Research.
Damn, I hate to be wrong! And it's time to come clean.
The story of the technology industry and the parables of two men, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, have been inextricably entwined during the past 25 years. They started out as dreamers who had visions of how personal computers would change the world--and they dedicated their careers to making it happen.


Their paths diverged in the late 1980s. Gates was well on his way to building one of the most lucrative and tightly controlled monopolies in the history of modern capitalism. Jobs was being ignominiously tossed out of the company he had founded. Jobs' eccentricities (from his control-freak tendencies to his erratic management style) had converged to make him professionally unpalatable. The ill-fated Next, with its revenge-driven strategy, further confirmed that Jobs was a nonfactor--a has-been from the bygone years of home-brewed whimsicality, stuck in an era of corporate, enterprise-focused technology.
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[gonz]

Yes! Awesome article, cuts right to the heart of why Steve Jobs has made himself relevant once again.

I would go a step further: not only is Steve Jobs the most relevant man in digital consumer technology, but Bill Gates is the most dangerous man in technology. The future of computing will increasingly determine the future of humanity, and it is too important to be left up to one greedy monopolist.

[Nick]

No kidding. That's a good article.