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Jobs, Woz among history greatest entrepreneurs

updated 03:50 pm EDT, Mon October 25, 2004

Jobs on entrepreneur list


Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are among MSNBC's : "Apple Computer’s two Steves weren’t the first Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to launch a billion-dollar business from a Palo Alto garage -- Hewlett and Packard were there before them -- but they were the first to democratize computing by creating a machine whose use was so wonderfully intuitive that even technophobes embraced it. Combine the elegance of Wozniak’s operating system design with Jobs’ marketing savvy (remember Apple’s “1984” ad?) and the result was a true phenomenon."


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  1. koolkid1976

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    10/25, 04:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    h*** froze over again?

    A MSNBC site listing Jobs and Woz among history greatest entrepreneurs, but not a word on Bill Gates? WOW.

  1. ethical_paul

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    10/25, 04:31pm | report spam | Reply |

    Nice, but they goofed

    He confused the founding of Apple (via the Apple I and II) with the creation of the MacOS. Woz built the I and II, but not the Mac. Woz is great and of course the Mac could never have been built without all the money that Apple made with the II, but still, the guy has blurred them.

  1. JacquesDav

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    10/25, 04:35pm | report spam | Reply |

    Woz, Operating System?

    Woz had far more to do with the architecture of the Apple I, ][ and III and considerably less with the Macintosh. And he definitely had a peripheral role when it came to the design of the operating systems. The OS to which I am sure they are referring to as intuititve and inviting even to technophobe, is the Mac OS, and it was very much the brainchild of Jeff Raskin.

    It's called 5 minutes of research... journalists have truly grown lazy in the last decade.

    J

  1. discotronic

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    10/25, 04:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    Gates was mentioned

    If you read the entire article Bill Gates is mentioned. It figures since it is an MSNBC article.

  1. Mooseyard

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    10/25, 04:58pm | report spam | Reply |

    Mac OS not Raskin's

    This again? The Mac OS was NOT in any way the brainchild of Jef Jef Raskin -- that's an urban legend perpetuated by Raskin himself. He did start a project called "Macintosh" to build a small easy-to-use computer, but his ideas were very different (he hated mice and GUIs back then), he was pushed out by Jobs, and the Mac that shipped bore no relation to what he wanted. Raskin has since resurfaced as a bitter near-crank.

    Please see the definitive article by Andy Herzfeld (who IS one of the fathers of the Macintosh):

    http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Father_of_The_Macintosh.txt

  1. mymacluvsme

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    10/25, 05:07pm | report spam | Reply |

    Gates

    They should have said that Gates and Microsoft copied the Mac OS's ease of use.

  1. JacquesDav

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    10/25, 05:09pm | report spam | Reply |

    I Stand Corrected...

    Mooseyard,
    My memory did not do me justice. For some reason that name (Raskin) popped out of my head, but now that I see the name "Herzfeld" it makes more sense to me. Call it a moment of OS Tourette's. Thanks for the correction. And I seem to recall a recent article where Raskin trashes OSX, so your comment that he is a bitter crank is apparently quite accurate. My fault for being as lazy as the journalists I decry. I meant to say "Herzfeld"...

    But I stand my the Woz comments... brilliant man, but not terribly involved in the OS creation department.

    J

  1. BKNY

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    10/25, 07:45pm | report spam | Reply |

    Not talking about the Mac

    They're not talking about the Mac here. They're talking about how Apple democratized the personal computer. They did this with the Apple II and Steve Wozniak was not only the principal hardware designer but also wrote most of the Apple II operating system which was very easy to use at the time.

  1. serpico

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    10/25, 09:53pm | report spam | Reply |

    ape-ing

    they did make mention of the copying of the mac os by Gates inc. when they mentioned that they "aped" it.....

  1. aristotles

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    10/25, 10:19pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re:apeing

    So that explains why they are led by monkeyboy (Balmer) and why they used him to to sell Windows 1.0 on TV.

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