On 10/6/11 7:26 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:
On 10/6/2011 4:02 PM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote:
In some circles, he's being compared to Thomas Edison. Apply your own
opinion there whether you feel that's accurate or not. I'll just state
this: Both men were pasionate about what they did. They each changed
the world and left it better than they found it.
It's probably not a bad analogy, like Ford and many other champions of
industry he didn't invent groundbreaking technology (Edison's only
invention was the phonograph IIRC, all else was improvements on
existing technology). They took what was already in existence and did
something amazing with it: made it accessible, be it through price,
ease of use or whatever.
Steve demonstrated any number of times, when excellent hardware +
software engineering + quality control is applied, even "commodity"
products are able to provide good returns. In this view, the analogy
holds when price alone is not considered.
-Doug