I went Mac!!

[diceisgod]

Macs suck because Jobs was greedy and arrogant while Gates was greedy and opportunistic.

Jobs assumed that if he just controlled everything that people would be forced to buy EVERYTHING from Apple he'd have a captive audience and rule the world. Gates just wanted to make sure that his system was adopted, so he made it possible for everyone to get it.

Once his system had been adopted then he had a captive audience.

Apple made the cardinal sin in product development in that they decided what the product was going and which applications would be provided first and then just dropped it on the market assuming everyone had the exact same tastes as he did; that something would stick. Gates just made it the system available and allowed other people to profit by creating applications which benefitted the consumer much more because they could tailor it to exactly what they want.

Gates' way was so much better because there was a giant network of people (software providers, PC compatible CPU manufacturers, monitor manufacturers, etc) who all had a vested interest in pushing the Windows platform. Jobs had no one on his side but Apple, and the network effect made it impossible to compete in the overall sense. So MACs have this little piss-ant niche of the $1 trillion worldwide IT market and a few straggling technophobes who want Macs just to be different/better.

Bill Gates > Steve Jobs
Microsoft > Apple

No you see your comparing Apples and oranges. Jobs was a start up entrprenuer who sold computers ( that he and his partner Woz invented independently). They made one of the first user friendly pc's and their initial business applicstiomn software made the company take off. Hardware AND Software being the two large obsticles they tackeld inthose days. Microsoft howver, specialized in intel processessors from IBM and exclusiviley designed software for the IBM line. Big Blue was already the monster corp of the computer industry and Gates (an already wealthy entreprenuer) had his foot in the door there when he purchased the first edition of DOS from some fools.

So if the argument is whose better on pure inovation and ambnition Jobs has it all over Gates. Gates may have the lion share of the market but alot of that has to do with IBM neglecting to claim exclusive liscence on their software So when Compact and Dell rolls around Microsoft is free to vend to them and make a killiing.