Not nearly as big as some media knuckleheads are saying immediately after Jobs retired for health reasons.
David Pogue mentions these products:
- iMac: What's its market share?
- iPod: Was it really that different from a Sony of my owny?
- iPhone: smartphone; so what?
- iPad: big iPhone without the phone.
Pogue also mentions these industries:
- music: I'll give you that one.
- TV: what? Apple TV? Is this a joke?
- movies: Pixar Animation - OK a little
- software: Safari?
- cellphones: Did Jobs invent them? I didn't think so.
- cloud computing: late, old fashioned and not free; so far only MobileMe; See Google Docs.
Jim Kramer said Jobs may have been the greatest industrialist in history. Say What? How about Bell or whomever you want to credit with inventing the telephone? How about Henry Ford or your favorite fill in the blank for starting the auto industry? Blah, blah, blah.
Jobs created hula hoops for people with too much disposable income who flattered themselves for making him filthy rich by overpaying in the extreme.
Plus, what process is at Apple Computers for continuing its recent success without Jobs instinct and his personal cult following?
Closed proprietary systems are dead. Long live open systems. Apple will sink on its next failure. Power to the people! Down with the tyrants of industry ... like Jobs!
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