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Originally Posted by PolarBear
You just reinforced what I said. Gates is not Jobs, someone elase would have come up with this stuff!
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Gates and Jobs both were forward looking people, but they had two very different goals.
Jobs attention to detail is what brought Apple to where it was. He was visionary in how he put products together. Do you think that Blackberry would have developed a touch-screen smart phone? Or do you think that they would have developed an app system? Hell, no one can touch iTunes, and there are several companies that tried.
Jobs built Apple up into a personal computer company, and when he returned, he took them into a totally different direction. He totally reworked the music industry and how music was transferred and listened too.
Like I said, there were MP3 players before the iPod, there were PCs before iMacs, and there were smart phones long before iPhone. But every time an Apple product stepped into the world, it instantly made everything else out there obsolete.
Look at the failings of Zune, Blackberry Storm series, other tablets, etc etc, all were designed to compete with an Apple product, and all failed. Job's attention to detail with UI is the biggest difference. Is the iPhone4S better than the best Android phone, the Bionic? No, the Bionic blows its ****ing doors off. But iOS is much easier to grasp to the average person, and that is worth more than trying to go after a niche group.
Ford didn't invent the car, nor did he invent the assembly line. He figured out a way to make a cheap car, on an assembly line, quickly and easily so that the masses could get their hands on it.
Would someone eventually come up with it? Yeah, possibly. Would it have been as user friendly or as well built as an iPhone? Judging by the current crop of smart phones, no.