September 10, 2004

i'M iMpressed Steve Jobs' companies (Apple and Pixar) place 1st and 3rd as Senior Executives name the greatest iNovators of Past 75 Years in a BusinessWeek survey. "...Microsoft, fell short to Steve Jobs' Apple as the most innovative company (32 percent and 35 percent, respectively). Pixar, where Jobs is also president, came in a close third at 31 percent."

When you consider that the company Jobs started after being ousted from Apple (NeXT) went on to become Apple's redemption and I think you'd have to say he pretty much ran the table. However, did they make an honest accessment of 75 years? The results seem more than a little weighted to the last 25.

posted by mecurious 20 years ago
  • > iNnovators. <Sheesh!> Why do I not see those things on Preview?
  • Gates? Gates? Seriously, Gates? Regarding Jobs: now, that's more like it. The guy may make employees cry, and he may have shafted many (starting with Woz), and his infectious Reality Distortion Field has made many cultists (*cough*) pay thru the teeth for translucent plastic, but he's shaped consumer computing, by Apple and with the changes its products force others to implement. Hopefully his current fight will also be won. And... really, Gates?
  • Gates has certainly innovated. He's been innovativr in the ways he and El Balmer steal or buy shit and claim it as thier own. Innovative bullshit is still innovative.
  • What, no mention of PARC or NCSA? They picked Apple over IBM?!
  • Consider that those surveyed were 'senior level business executives', the list sounds like a useless waste of time magazine fluff piece. Go survey a bunch of business school academics and historians who actually think about this stuff, then we'll talk.