Friday, January 27, 2006

Who is the best? Steve Jobs or Bill Gates-You Decide

Jobs versus Gates Who's the Star?


Previously, I have posted about my admiration for Steve Jobs, and for my dismissal of everything that Bill Gates does in the business world. Gates copied windows from the Mac guys back in the early 80's, and of course, made just a few changes to escape the legal challenge mounted by Apple way back then. Apple never had a chance after losing the court case (because Microsoft had already infiltrated most PC manufacturers with their Operating System (pre-windows), and so, Microsoft was off to rapid domination of what it takes for a computer to work. Also, Netscape was way ahead in the internet browser race in the mid 90's, only to be crushed by Microsoft who had to play catch up once again by copying and basically modifying all that Netscape first delivered. Now, there is news that Microsoft is going to develop a rival to the IPOD. I have a hard time believing that Gates will prevail in this instance. However, in his personal life, Bill Gates has always been a philanthropist, and as this article points out, Bill Gates leaves Steve Jobs in the dust on this side of the equation. Thanks again to Mike Petruna for this interesting perspective and link above.

This is No Hogan's Hero's

These guys are serious south of the border, whoever they are. I would put my money on druggies and not terrorists. However, that hole is big enough for a bunch of bad stuff to come over our way--undetected obviously.

Massive Drug Tunnel Found Under US-Mexico Border

That's the one rub many conservative Republicans have with "W"--very little border control both north and south of our border. Here's hoping this raises some serious eyebrows up in D. C.

Google, Just Stop Googling the Business World

Google may be close to developing ITunes competitor
You know, sometimes company's just go in too many different directions and it really pisses me off. Maybe it's because I'm a small business guy. I avoid Wal Mart, never have liked Microsoft, and now, Google is getting on my nerves. It seems like every day they enter a new market or go in a different direction. Even though Google Earth is cool, why is this necessary? Okay, full disclosure, I sold my google stock @ $110. Now it's north of $400...Even if I had kept the stock (and locked in the profits), I still would like to think that my feelings would be the same.....Would that I were a smarter stock picker tho'
(Thanks for my friend and co-worker Mike Petruna for this link)