On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 19:57:20 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:



"X ` Man" wrote in message
om...

It's too bad we lose people like Steve Jobs when trash like Dick Cheney
is still alive.


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nat...,7292186.story


A shame. He brought much to this world that many of us often take for
granted. Smart guy.

Eisboch

He was a big thinker and a micro manager. Had an incredible sense for
product development and what would appeal to consumers.

I was privy to a conversation between he and Bill Gates at a
conference in San Jose more than 20 years ago. This was when Jobs was
trying to get Next off the ground and selling chiefly to higher ed.
Our team was presenting in the same session as both he and Gates and I
happened to be in a small circle of people as they were catching each
other up on the latest at each company. Gates was already filthy rich
and Jobs was starting over after having gotten the boot from Apple. It
was an interesting period in time. No one knew at the time that Jobs
would invest in Pixar and then return to Apple to run it again.

I've made most of my living off of Gate's platform but it was Jobs who
altered my life course in 1984 and set me on the path that I'm on
today.