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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Sea Otter who wrote (158372)1/17/2009 9:09:33 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 362360
 
Sea Otter: Jobs is more important to Apple than Gates was to Microsoft. Anyone who doesn't see the difference doesn't understand what Steve Jobs really brings.

It's not his design sense, etc...it's his absolute refusal to put out something that's not as good as he thinks it can be.

That attitude is incredibly rare in business where there's a lot of 'get it out the door and get some $$ in the bank, we can fix it later' going around. Steve Jobs pushes people to do better than they know they can and the risk if he doesn't return is that no other executive will be so insane about this. And even if they are...Jobs FOUNDED Apple. That gives him a power that no one else can really duplicate, one that's rooted in something that no other exec can have no matter how bright or good that exec is.

Will Apple survive if Jobs leaves permanently? Yes. Will they continue to be special and put out things that change how people use technology? Maybe.
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