“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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HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
No, seriously. What was the question?..
I would just puke if the main stream and real journalist starts labeling this guy as the new Steve Jobs…. Not even close. Not even close by a lightyear… for Pete’s sake, not even in the multiverse will this guy be close to as another Steve Jobs… Is it April 1st?
No one is the new steve jobs.
SJ had the capability to obsolete his own products. Can anyone think of anybody that can or be willing to do that?
Dating myself a bit, but here goes. When Marylin Monroe died some 50 years ago, Hollywood did its damnedest to proclaim the next “Marylin Monroe”. Some may have beeen prettier, some were better actors, but everyone of them fell by the wayside, all of them lacking the same quality: presence.
BeOS smart, no doubt about it. BeOS has built a successful tech company (if online retail is really technology), but he doesn’t have precedence. BeOS can’t disrupt industries (plural) to the extent that Jobs did. BeOS can’t inspire consumers (the that Jobs did), and Bezos can’t envision or execute on new technology (the way Jobs did) n
No, Bezos is not the next Jobs, not even close.
Autocorrect Fail.
“The tech blog Gizmodo agrees in an article titled ‘Jeff Bezos is the New Steve Jobs,’…”
A new low, even for Gizmodo.
No, hell no! What is a Gizmodo anyway?
That’s funny. Wouldn’t he have to invent something before even being considered for the spot?
And why can’t he just be Jeff Bezos; why does the media have to appoint a “next Steve Jobs”?
To misquote someone else: “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”.
that was Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas regarding Dan Quayle.
I’ve used Steve Jobs’ products and your products and you, Jeff Bezos, you’re no Steve Jobs.
Jeff at Amazon? Equals Steve Jobs? Amazon is a low margin joke of a company. Their margins are razor thin and they are on the wrong side of the supply chain. Jobs was a designer, inventor and marketing wiz. Jeff is simply another dressed up soda water salesmen. Jobs warned us about the sales bozos. To even compare the two is completely stupid. Thats like comparing Superman and Charlie Brown because they both were in the newspaper.
Jeff Bozos is one of the chief architects of the lowest common denominator platform that uses cheap-pricing to entice an overbloated consumer population to stuff in more than what it can consume. Steve Jobs had not played to such strategy to gain consumer affection.
So there is no difference between Jeff Bozos and the cheap PC purveyors and to compare him to Steve Jobs is just the wrong perspective to take. Let’s compare him to Michael Dell, Google and Motorola and I think he will find comfortable accommodation with them.
oh, hell no….
Is Steve Ballmer the new Jeff Bezos now that Bezos seems to have stepped up to Steve Jobs’ recently vacated mantle?
Yes! And Sanjay Jha is the new Steve Ballmer! Everyone gets a promotion and a raise!
Comparing that dork to Steve Jobs, a man who accomplished so much with his intellect, really? Jeff can only wish to be in the same club as Steve Jobs.
Do some real reporting Wall Street..
Oh I thought this was a Joke! No F***ing way!! Bozo is NO STEVE JOBS!
Opps *Bezos!
😉
That is like saying Obama is the new George Washington. Or Steve Ballmer is the next Stephen Hawking.
We won’t see a Steve for a long…..long time. It’s not Mark Shumckerberg, it’s not Jeff Bozos, or anyone currently in tech or business.
I thought Reed Hastings was the new Steve Jobs. Just because he made a few bad calls and then, in a panic mode, did an undo/redo/undo+undo, caused his company’s stock to plummet some 80% from its peak last summer, and has been found selling his own stock grants recently just to spite the investors apparently, doesn’t mean he can’t be Steve Jobs still. Oh, the fickle minded tech journalism! Have some patience will ya, Reed will totally deliver within a decade or two.
Meanwhile, Bezos is also the new Steve Jobs. I can totally see it. He presents like Steve Jobs. He also got fired from the company he once founded, which btw had revolutionised generations with this novelty concept of personal computing etc. He has, since then, found great success in a completely different field of animation magic, got his old company back and has taken it to become one of the, if not the influential and valuable company in the world etc. Besides, he has this killer product announcements that crashes Twitter in trying to cover it. So yeah, totally, Bezos is the new Steve Jobs.
Now who wants to be the new Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer? Any takers?
Why do people even think these thoughts? It’s so absurd to suggest the Bezos is in any way similar.
Jobs was unique.
His background, intellect, taste, history, and even his demeanor all made what he did possible. Bezos is an opportunist at best.
I am the new Steve Jobs.
I am also The Walrus.
Koo Koo Kachoo!
Gezundheit 🙂
“Is Jeff Bezos the new Steve Jobs?”
….uhh…. No.
No, but he has a Reality-Distortion-Field that could make Bernie Madoff blush.
I’d say Reality-Extorsion-Field.
Perhaps the new Richard Warren Sears.
Jeff Bezos was smart enough to use Android for his Kindle Fire so that is smart enough for me.
He is our next tech leader!
And you can have Jeff Bezos he didn’t do anything but make a phone call to some company in Asia and said give me something really fricken cheap I can put my logo and books on that has color. He probably didn’t even do that. I bet some crappy overpriced calculator/android peddler saw him coming. It went like this. “I don’t care that the screen is small and if you can make it with really cheap parts and cut as many corners as possible so I can compete with Apples perfection maybe some other hemroid users/sufferers will buy it and not notice its junk.”
To say they are your leader as if they actually did anything is about as idiotic as saying that Crazy Eddie was a pioneer. Amazon equals “We sell crap cheaper than anyone because we have the tightest margins in town. Amazons Prices are insane its margins are just pathetic. Dude Just drink your Sugar Water or kool-aid or whatever else keeps you in your happy delusion.
STEVE JOBS AKA “EINSTEIN” of technology!!!
Is the dump I took this morning the next Michaelangelo sculpture?.
Is the dump you took this morning the next Jeff Bezos?
Probably not, but it might be tough to distinguish from the present Jeff Bezos
Wouldn’t the more apropos descriptor for this particular bodily function be “Taking a Schmidt”?
What people (especially writers) do best: Running Off At The Mouth.
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also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
(“X is the next Y”, “X is the new black”, etc.)
Gizmodo, which condones or even champions theft for the sake of a scoop, is the last entity I will trust for its objectivity on anything concerning Apple. And puhleaze, Jeff Bezos hasn’t done anything revolutionary. He’s just an opportunistic businessman.
Jeff Bozo the next Jobs?
All $$$ and no creativity.
The next Ballmer maybe!
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.