Wired on Apple heroes and villians

Wired is running a piece profiling Apple's heroes and villains throughout the company's 30 year history. You'll find Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Jef Raskin on the list (I'll let you guess which group they belong to) along with many others.

The interesting bit is that his Steveness appears on the list thrice, once as a villain (during his NeXT days) and twice as a hero. Leave it to everyone's favorite mogul to hold down more than one spot at the same time. How does he do it?

Thanks, Shane.

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Source: http://blog.wired.com/herosandvillains/index.album?i=0

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Wired is running a piece profiling Apple's heroes and villains throughout the company's 30 year history. You'll find Bill Gates, Michael...

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Shane Hale

I suspect a 30th Aniversary Mac. Perhaps it will be a 37in LCD iMac. FrontRow, iSight, 2.0GHz Core Duo.

shane

March 30 2006 at 6:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anon

So, the rumor mill is now dead quiet on the 30th anniversary front. Nothing new coming out this week or next?

March 30 2006 at 5:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christopher L. Williams

I agree that the post-Jobsian era could be scary, but remember that when he left the first time, there was a lot of bad blood between Jobs and the rest of Apple execs. Let's hope that Jobs will have a say when it is time for him to depart and that there can be a smooth transition rather than the cluster-muck that happened when he was exiled.

That is our only hope.

March 30 2006 at 4:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

south

i enjoyed reading it, but by the end all my fears for Apple in the post-Jobs future were cemented. Almost every other CEO is listed in the 'villains' category.

March 30 2006 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply