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Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade"
longacre writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs won over 30% of the vote in an online poll published by personal finance and investing news site SmartMoney.com, enough to earn their 'Person of the Decade' title by a solid margin over luminaries such as Warren Buffett (17%), Ben Bernanke (13%) and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (12%). From the article: 'Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.'"
Yes, it was the first time in US history that was ever done.
Further, he paid for those two wars using borrowed money, and using "emergency appropriations" instead of putting the wars in the budget, so that it would seem like the budget deficit wasn't as bad as it really was.
By the way, those two wars, over 6 years, cost more than the Health Care Reform legislation will cost over the next ten years.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You're simplifying matters... Drastically.
For example, without the release of the iMac in 1998, apple surely wouldn't have survived long enough to release an iPod.
Without OS X (admittedly in development before SJ's return) it probably wouldn't have got there either.
Without the revamp of apple's laptop line in general to make them into arguably the best laptops money can buy did a good amount too.
Without the iPod, it probably wouldn't be in the enormously successful state it's in now.
Without the iPhone, it probably wouldn't be looking too rosy right now either – iPod sales are slipping now.
Essentially what I'm saying is – there's significant vision and management going on here. It's not *one* hit product that someone got lucky on, it's a history, since he came back of *every* part of the company improving what it's doing, and becoming generally more appealing.