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[citation][nom]Godfail[/nom]I don't see numbers as artificially inflated because they are higher than I would like or expect, no. This is a true or false statement, there is no middle ground, 98% doesn't mean they're devoted to Jobs' cause it means that 98% feel positively about him and that's it. ... You have to know that probably 99% of the company has never even met Steve Jobs, right?[/citation]

This is why I compared Steve Jobs to Jesus. Blind devotion to a mythical figure in a black turtle neck.

[citation]I'm talking about Microsoft's loss of many markets that they did/could/should dominate while under his leadership.[/citation]

The iPod/iPad/iPhone aren't the only products Apple makes. Lets not forget, under Job's leadership, Apple lost its hold on the PC market to IBM-style computers with Intel processors and an otherwise open architecture (which let Microsoft take hold of 93% of the computer market at one point). Jobs did this by killing off Mac clones, which killed the popularity of his product just when a cheaper, more capable competitor was coming out. If I worked at Apple (and not for the iProduct division), wouldn't I wonder why Apple gave-up on the computer market? If the software is so great, and the hardware works so well together, why can't Apple break 10%? No one at Apple is asking this question? Yes, the iPod/iPhone are huge successes, but Apple wasn't even making these products 10 years ago. Regardless of current success, as an employee, I would worry about Apple's diversification. What will continue to drive Apple's success when a true iPod or iPhone killer comes out?

No, I don't work for Apple, and maybe walking into the office is like walking into heaven, the worries of the real world lifted from your shoulders, angels playing harps, your dog that died when you were 7 comes bounding across a field of feathery clouds, and even Gramma Nancy is there is a plate of warm cookies. However, when 98% of anybody says they are happy with anything, it should draw some suspicion.

Not even the pope gets an approval rating that high amongst catholics, and he's the guy with a direct hot-line to God.
 
Oh yeah .. and their largest oem manufacturer has people throwing themselves off buildings like like rice at weddings and they buy their mineral based components from countries that allow slave labor and genocide.
 
[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]This is why I compared Steve Jobs to Jesus. Blind devotion to a mythical figure in a black turtle neck.[citation]I'm talking about Microsoft's loss of many markets that they did/could/should dominate while under his leadership.[/citation]The iPod/iPad/iPhone aren't the only products Apple makes. Lets not forget, under Job's leadership, Apple lost its hold on the PC market to IBM-style computers with Intel processors and an otherwise open architecture (which let Microsoft take hold of 93% of the computer market at one point). Jobs did this by killing off Mac clones, which killed the popularity of his product just when a cheaper, more capable competitor was coming out. If I worked at Apple (and not for the iProduct division), wouldn't I wonder why Apple gave-up on the computer market? If the software is so great, and the hardware works so well together, why can't Apple break 10%? No one at Apple is asking this question? Yes, the iPod/iPhone are huge successes, but Apple wasn't even making these products 10 years ago. Regardless of current success, as an employee, I would worry about Apple's diversification. What will continue to drive Apple's success when a true iPod or iPhone killer comes out?No, I don't work for Apple, and maybe walking into the office is like walking into heaven, the worries of the real world lifted from your shoulders, angels playing harps, your dog that died when you were 7 comes bounding across a field of feathery clouds, and even Gramma Nancy is there is a plate of warm cookies. However, when 98% of anybody says they are happy with anything, it should draw some suspicion.Not even the pope gets an approval rating that high amongst catholics, and he's the guy with a direct hot-line to God.[/citation]

You call it blind devotion when a number is not suspected to be artificial? That's ridiculous. I'm not an Apple fanboy, by far...just someone who recognizes success and has a grasp of what it's like to work for these organizations.

I wasn't comparing Microsoft's losses to just Apple, but I can see that's how you are reading into this.

Apple has never given up on the computer market. It's a successful business, they move plenty of hardware, enough to be ranked in the top 5 computer manufacturers worldwide. When you want to look at this penetration as Windows vs. OSX, of course it looks small...even still, Mac sales are growing, which is a good sign for any business.

But really, where is the true iPod killer - it's been close to 10 years now? That's about as likely to happen as a true "Windows killer" or "Office killer" these days. As far as the iPhone goes, I would never say it has the same foothold but it's been challenged many times yet still survives on only one carrier as one of if not the top selling phone. There is also the iPad to talk about...what was the last Microsoft product that came along with the same penetration as any of these three devices?

Microsoft lost more than these markets since Balmer took over. In fact, the only comparison I was making between the two would be Windows Mobile vs. iOS, and I'd also be comparing Android in that. Microsoft should be the top smartphone OS provider, they've been in this game for what, 11 years? Windows Mobile stagnated like nothing I've ever seen.

I would say that 98% would draw suspicion from me if this were your typical CEO making a huge salary and cutting employee's pay to pad his own. He's not. The guy is paid a dollar a year. I don't even really like Apple very much but Steve Jobs really stands out to me as the top CEO of current times. He's had a ridiculous road to it and learned from a ton of mistakes, but the guy takes gambles and wins. He's also far more open than most CEO's...and the only competition he has in celebrity as a CEO is Bill Gates.
 
[citation][nom]gnice3d[/nom]Oh yeah .. and their largest oem manufacturer has people throwing themselves off buildings like like rice at weddings and they buy their mineral based components from countries that allow slave labor and genocide.[/citation]

That OEM happens to work for many a PC manufacturer as well...
 
[citation][nom]gnice3d[/nom]Were these votes cast solely by stockholders? Jobs is a douche bucket of epic proportions... Unethical (if not yet proven illegal) practices with the app store.iTunes is monopolizing the music industry into utter shat like Beiber Fever. Likes his platforms locked up tighter than a Vietnamese boys ass (Likes that too)Douche bucket .. period.[/citation]

What exactly would you call unethical in the App Store?
How is iTunes monopolizing the industry? Is there something they have exclusivity on that you can't buy somewhere else?
Locked up platforms...that makes him a douche? In fact, how does any of this make the guy a douche?
 
[citation][nom]thesupermedium[/nom]Should have AMD up there, I'm sure that would mix things up a bit.[/citation]
Qucik question, does anyone know who the CEO of AMD is? 😀

I wouldn't mind buying stocks in a company Steve-O was in charge of, but I certainly wouldn't invite him over to dinner.
Though, out of curiosity, though Bill Gates no longer really runs Microsoft, what would his rating have been? Seems everyone has a love/hate relationship with him. Why do we love him? He brought us windows. Why do we hate him? He brought us Windows.
😀
 
[citation][nom]Travis Beane[/nom]Qucik question, does anyone know who the CEO of AMD is? I wouldn't mind buying stocks in a company Steve-O was in charge of, but I certainly wouldn't invite him over to dinner.Though, out of curiosity, though Bill Gates no longer really runs Microsoft, what would his rating have been? Seems everyone has a love/hate relationship with him. Why do we love him? He brought us windows. Why do we hate him? He brought us Windows.[/citation]

Remember, this is an employee survey and I would say that Bill Gates would have had 90%+.
 
[citation][nom]jose3189[/nom]I find the the numbers for Steve Jobs a little dubious[/citation]

The is no way to rate Steve Jobs bad. He paid the site to make the 'disapprove' button count as a approve button. Then he said to take off 2% to make it seem realistic.

We all know Steve wont employ anyone except those who have pretty much drank a pool worth of Apple kool-aide.
 
This just proves that jobs has created a form of mind control and is 98% successful at it. I'm sure the other 2 % aren't happy because they lost their phone in a bar or something like that.
 
[citation][nom]Godfail[/nom]What exactly would you call unethical in the App Store?How is iTunes monopolizing the industry? Is there something they have exclusivity on that you can't buy somewhere else?Locked up platforms...that makes him a douche? In fact, how does any of this make the guy a douche?[/citation]


Anytime a CEO says your incompetent without directly saying it and blaming you for their F*** Up ("Your holding it wrong") then yea, you're a douche
 
Yay, another win for Intel!

Sorry, i am biased at Intel. My dad works at their Santa Clara office. The CEO is 1 floor on top of him and he sits in a cubicle too like everyone else!!

AMD should learn.
 
the man that tells the thousands of ppl with an iphone 4 to hold it correctly cuz it's their fault for signal loss... is only disapproved by 2%????????????
 
[citation][nom]tkofredd[/nom]the man that tells the thousands of ppl with an iphone 4 to hold it correctly cuz it's their fault for signal loss... is only disapproved by 2%????????????[/citation]
It means the engineers don't need to fix the problem. What employee wouldn't approve of their boss getting them out of more work?
 
Microsoft, HP, and Dell are the 3 highest disapprovals. No surprise there. It's also no coincidence that those three make the shoddiest products on the list too.
 
[citation][nom]sicundercover[/nom]Think about it this way, all but one of them have a higher approval rating then both Congress and Barak Obama.[/citation]
It would really REALLY hard to screw up worse than congress and barack obama have.
 
[citation][nom]Smochina[/nom]I thought his name was Mark Turd.[/citation]
Well it certainly is now, after his little harassment scandal.
 
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