Then you've been lucky. You must also have chosen not to update the OS with its latest service packs (which require loading a Genuine Windows tool accompanied by an activation requirement) or use Microsoft Office (which requires activation). I hope you don't have to change-out any components, either. Despite what I've read (Windows not requiring activation for simple hardware swapouts), I had a client last week that needed a new CD-ROM drive. I swapped out the old 48X for a new 48X and Windows responded upon rebooting by requiring that, since "significant hardware changes" had been made, Windows must be re-authorized with Microsoft. Fun stuff.
Without a doubt Steve Jobs has - through a complex mixture of personal will, creativity, foresight, leadership and absolute luck - deftly driven Apple's good fortune. But he hasn't done it all himself, of course.
This guy's had incredibly good luck fall in his lap. Witness Wozniak, Pixar, Disney's funding of Toy Story, Apple's willingness to purchase NeXT in 1996 (in a $400-million deal when NeXT was essentially out of luck with no prospects), etc. To his credit, Jobs' knew how to leverage that good luck to birth revenue and success.
But even when Jobs took over Apple from CEO Gil Amelio in 97, it was Amelio's 18 months of turnaround work that set the stage for Apple's comeback, not necessarily any super bright new idea Jobs brought to the table, wasn't it?
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Then you've been lucky. You must also have chosen not to update the OS with its latest service packs (which require loading a Genuine Windows tool accompanied by an activation requirement) or use Microsoft Office (which requires activation). I hope you don't have to change-out any components, either. Despite what I've read (Windows not requiring activation for simple hardware swapouts), I had a client last week that needed a new CD-ROM drive. I swapped out the old 48X for a new 48X and Windows responded upon rebooting by requiring that, since "significant hardware changes" had been made, Windows must be re-authorized with Microsoft. Fun stuff.
Without a doubt Steve Jobs has - through a complex mixture of personal will, creativity, foresight, leadership and absolute luck - deftly driven Apple's good fortune. But he hasn't done it all himself, of course. This guy's had incredibly good luck fall in his lap. Witness Wozniak, Pixar, Disney's funding of Toy Story, Apple's willingness to purchase NeXT in 1996 (in a $400-million deal when NeXT was essentially out of luck with no prospects), etc. To his credit, Jobs' knew how to leverage that good luck to birth revenue and success. But even when Jobs took over Apple from CEO Gil Amelio in 97, it was Amelio's 18 months of turnaround work that set the stage for Apple's comeback, not necessarily any super bright new idea Jobs brought to the table, wasn't it?