“It’s hard to imagine anyone could possibly fill the enormous vacuum left with the tragic death of Steve Jobs,” Richard L. Brandt writes for CNBC. “But people are searching hopefully for such a person.”
“An article in The Wall Street Journal concludes: ‘Mr. Jobs’s nearest analog might be one of Apple’s emerging rivals, Amazon Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos,'” Brandt writes. “The tech blog Gizmodo agrees in an article titled ‘Jeff Bezos is the New Steve Jobs,’ while The Atlantic Wire adds its own story, ‘Techies All Agree: Jeff Bezos = Steve Jobs.'”
“It’s a tough comparison,” Brandt writes. “But he still hasn’t shown the ability to be the pioneer in electronics that Jobs was… [and] Bezos, like everyone else, has tended to follow Jobs’s lead… What Bezos has to do now is show that he can come up with original ideas that add incredible value to the world of electronics—devices that show others the way. Only then can he be considered the successor to the genius Steve Jobs. He’s certainly going to try.”
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No.
I see a few similarities in management style but it ends there.
Bezos is not obssesed with the user experience, he only wants it “good enough” to move a lot of product and Steve Jobs was totally opposite in this regard.
There is no comparison
The Kiss if Death- as any of the multitude of “new Dylans” could tell you.
Has the bar been lowered so quickly? I spend hundreds at Amazon ever year (mostly books), but Bezos the new Jobs? Puh-leeze!
Steve Bezos is a sharp guy. He is his own man. Amazon is a Mouthe to reckon with with. I have seen him on talk shows and he holds his own in the PR department. But everyone is unique.
Bozos.
… Besos.
Bozos is not the new anything.
Um, still too soon for stupid headlines like this.
That would be a NO!
This is as stupid as the whole “Eric Schmidt will be the next Apple CEO” horseshit.
This is pretty simple. Bezos – sell as much of other people’s stuff as efficiently as possible. Jobs – make really good stuff so that people want to buy it. Bezos – copy someone else’s model and hardware, use another company’s OS to sell stuff.
Jobs – innovate hardware/software, use Apple OSes.
They seem diametrically opposed. Not that I hate Bezos or the Amazon model of selling stuff online. He is just not like Jobs at all.
Steve was Inimitable.
This is garbage. Gary Vaynerchuk was asking this same stupid question a couple weeks ago. The legacy of Steve Jobs is now that of Michael Jordan in that a bunch of talking heads keep asking “Who is the next Michael Jordan?” Instead it’s “Who is the next Steve Jobs?” The answer? No one is. Everyone they dub as the potential successor to the throne is not even in the same neighborhood as the predecessor. Bezos is not Jobs, plain and simple. He’s not going to change the technology game the way that Jobs did time and time again, it’s not what Amazon is about, and if the Kindle Fire is any indication… any tech they try to release is going to be DOA.
LMAO at the MDN take!
And, I have to say, that the MDN take is more likely to be true than Bezos being the next Jobs. I think that Bezos is a smart guy, but he isn’t a visionary to me. Well, he did envision the “1-Click checkout” that he managed to scam a patent on and licensed to Apple.
Do you think Bezos staying up all night sweating over the size and placement of a button on the kindle? Or of a particular shade of colour or type of font on some lettering?
Thought not…..
“Bezos, like everyone else, has tended to follow Jobs’s lead… What Bezos has to do now is show that he can come up with original ideas that add incredible value to the world of electronics”
Well……. DUHHHHHHHHH ! but…. the word “original” plays for Bezos like it does for Samsung…. neither have used real creativity any time in the near past…. and if you don’t use it.. you lose it
“I think we’re all Bozo’s on this bus”
While Bezo is no Bozo, those that claim he is the next Steve Jobs are tempting that moniker.
Need warnings before certain MDN Takes.
My coffee just went into all sorts of orifices it shouldn’t.
Well, if he Ever does succeed, I imagine him having a different vision and will go a different way to achieve it.
The next Steve Jobs? Since when does, making a post-PC device a library first and apps second make a man of the future. Or stealing apples cliche nerd and cool guy with a conservative bookie and a futurist Kindle user get considered even close to creative. Face it Amazon is like Rick Perry running for president. You are totally out of touch with the market and you will never come even close to taking more shares than the Xoom tablet which at least was smart enough to see that the library is just an app and not the main focus of a device of the future.
Is Gizmodo the new Weekly World News?
Is The Atlantic Wire the new toilet paper?
P.S.
Tim Cook was handpicked by Steve Jobs to be the next CEO of Apple, so I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if anybody’s the next Steve Jobs, it would have to be the man personally selected by Steve Jobs to be his own successor. But then again I’m just applying common sense and logic, so what the hell do I know?
When did the Wall Street Journal become the new USA Today? Once upon a time, that used to be a serious read. Now it seems to fall somewhere above Newsweek but below the Pennysaver.
No.
Next question?
Comparing that dork to Steve Jobs is like comparing the problem plagued Kindle to the state of the art Ipad, there’s just no comparison. You hand an inferior product like the Kindle Touch for example to Jobs and he’ll throw it back in your face and give you a whole summary of what’s wrong with it. You give it to Jeff Bezos and he’ll give you a pat on the back and put it out to consumers the next day. Funny article though, I had a good laugh.