“Embracing open source for Apple’s latest OS, the success of the iPod and proving, with iTunes, that there is a model for selling music online have helped Steve Jobs beat his old rival Bill Gates to be named silicon.com’s number one Agenda Setter for 2003,” reports Silicon.com. “A panel of experts decided the annual poll by voting on three factors – global influence, decision-making prowess and longevity – and past winners include Sir Christopher Gent (2000), Steve Case (2001) and Rupert Murdoch (2002).”
“Our panel was impressed by his decision to turn to the open source community to develop the core of the company’s next generation operating system, OS X, and a dedication to produce quality hardware such as the iPod music player,” reports Silicon.com. “However, it was the recent launch of the successful iTunes Music Store that many considered a key achievement, with one panellist claiming Jobs had “lit a fire” under the industry and proved that online music works.”
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How comes Mr. Dell is not mentioned? Wasn’t Dell the most innovating company?
LOL
He’s got not other agenda when all he wants to do is innovate. LOL.
*no other..
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Honestly, what has Microsoft done in the past year that made you say Wow! I can’t think of anything. I can think of plenty they’ve done to make me say F…!
Wriggling out from MS-DoJ showdown makes me go whoa!
LOL!! Good one Jeff.
Its great to see someone finally noticing the real innovation that apple has been doing instead of that fake copying innovation that Dell and Micro$oft do.
WindowsXP Media Center Edition.
Puke.
Well M$ has done more than any other software compny to help virus writers and hackers
Honestly, M$ has only opened one door, that to the playgroung for hackers and viruses to roam free
As an Apple lover who has had almost every Apple computer since 1980, I have some critisim of this blind Apple religious zeal that seems to permeate these boards.
How is iTunes store exactly innovative?
It’s an old model that has been reskinned for iPod the iPod which is a hard drive mp3 player which was done at least 2 years earlier by someone else.
Darwin? been there done that, Sun had released it’s source for Solaris 2 years previous.
If there is one thing that has happened since the return of Steve, is to make it more like Dell and less like SUN/IBM/old HP.
Steve’s first actions was to close most of the R&D dept at Apple.
Close the Human Interface Group, and reduce all R&D budgets to a 1/3 of what they where.
Than his next actions was to remove “Not Made Here” syndrome and make as much of the company standards based and less dependent on truly innovative Apple technology (read expensive).
Since he has been there almost all old Apple only tech has been completely removed from Macs (Apple serial port/ADB/Nubus/proprietary south bridges and North bridges on the mobo, excellent but exotic modem/av/display slots on the mobo, etc.)
We are now using almost all intel tech just like Dell is.
(PCI made by and for Intel, USB by and for intel, DDR standards based ram, AGP made by and for Intel, IDE/ATA by ibm/intel and a colusion of PC manufacturers, hypertransport (CPU bus in G5’s) made by AMD for Intel compatible machines, etc)
The last true apple tech is Firewire which is great but was actually developed before Steve came back.
So let’s get something straight, i love Apple and I love Steve as much as the next Macatista, but…
What he has really done since his come back to Apple is Take a few pages From Michael Dell and Bill Gates.
He as learned how to take what he needs from the world around him and refine it into the New Apple’s image.
As innovative as it seems it is called repackaging, not truly innovation.
So really if there is one reason why Dell should be there as much as Apple is that they really do do the same thing. Just that one is like VW, where is the other is Audi. (Same parts, except one up market.)
Great leader and Corporate success, resounding YES…
Innovator… resounding NO… He used to be, now he is just a really good business man. (which really is contradictory to innovation anyway; I mean who the hell remember Tucker Cars?)
“How is iTunes store exactly innovative?”
It is the first music download service which accessed by a browser that is also a jukebox software which synches its library and playlists to a music player. It is also the first store to have the blessing of the Big 5 while preserving the users’ broad right to use the music uniformly across the store. If this is not innovative, why others desperately tried to copy iTMS?
“It’s an old model that has been reskinned for iPod the iPod which is a hard drive mp3 player which was done at least 2 years earlier by someone else.”
I don’t know anybody else which came out with cigarette sized digital player which has a hard drive and large cache of memory allowing long (hours and hours) playback with easy control in the form of a wheel (mechanical then solid state). It is the first player to incorporate high-bandwidth connection (FireWire) allowing rapid transfer from the computer to the player.
“Darwin? been there done that, Sun had released it’s source for Solaris 2 years previous.”
Darwin is not the innovative part. It is the pragmatism of Apple to harness the open source community. The innovative part is marrying a commercial OS with a UNIX-based underpinnings. All this while preserving the things that makes Mac OS a good OS and minimizing the incompatibilities with a large software library.
Ever wonder why you don’t have Photoshop, MS Office, etc. for Solaris?
As for the rest, it is good that Apple is done away with the “not invented here” mentality. It allows them to be more compatible with the rest so that the question is not Mac or PC, but rather than Mac and/or PC. It makes them more price competitive too, while focusing on the things that can be the next great thing.
You don’t have to invent everything to be innovative. You just need to invent or use current technologies to make the next great thing.