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First let me say, I'm a HUGE Microsoft apolagist, and I don't use ANY Apple products. I am not by ANY means an Apple fanboy. Its obvious Apple had its struggles under Steve Jobs, but the success of Mac is undeniable. Yes it took a while for the public to adopt Macs, but a GUI was a fairly new concept to the public at large. And yes a lot of the adoption was driven by giving Macs away to schools etc. Jobs didn't graduate from collage, given the magnitude of his learning curve his success was undeniable. He made a lot of mistakes, he was fired, made more mistakes with NeXT. But the point is, they were structural mistakes. The VISION for products is undeniable. No one, even today, can not in honesty say that the original Mac was not an innovation of usability. The NeXT computer was ever MORE so a product of vision. "A computer needs killer apps to become successful." obviously Jobs learned that as the term "apps" has almost become synonymous with iPhone applications. Jobs has near perfected his ability to turn his vision into marketable products with a success rate that is near unheard of in the tech industry. And as much as I disdain Apples marketing methods and device feature sets, numbers don't lie, Steve Jobs is the success and vision behind Apple.
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