Bill Gates or Steve Jobs: Which one you consider to be more visionary / smarter?

Clearly both are highly accomplished individuals, but which one you believe is more visionary & smarter?

Bill Gates and it's not even close. He created the universal standard. Jobs deals in gimmicks and trends.

I'd say it depends on where you are looking from. Jobs was more hardware in the early days, and helped invent one of the first PC's. Gates bought the product that would become the Windows operating system. I'd still go Gates, but Jobs was and still is a big player today. Gates kind of just sits in the background at the moment, does charity work.

Bill Gates and it's not even close. He created the universal standard. Jobs deals in gimmicks and trends.

Pirate700

Well didn't Gates pretty much steal from Apple. It's been a while since I've seen the flick Pirates of Silicon Valley.Nifty_Shark

Bill Gates all the way...!

[QUOTE="Nifty_Shark"]Well didn't Gates pretty much steal from Apple. It's been a while since I've seen the flick Pirates of Silicon Valley.ShAbInAtOr

Well in the movie it had Bill and his team working with those new LISA computers and basically Bill modified it a bit and started selling it as Windows.

iPhone revolutionized my life...

can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achieved...I dont even use windows anymore

iPhone revolutionized my life... can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achievedsboyer2

[QUOTE="sboyer2"]iPhone revolutionized my life... can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achievedPirate700

iPhone revolutionized my life... can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achievedsboyer2

I'll say Steve Jobs because you guys can cry and scream all you want about Apple, but the fact is he's a genious marketer and can sell his proucts EVEN IF THEY'RE GARBAGE.

But it doesn't really matter what I say here because you guys are incredibly biased towards apple so you'll probably start saying a bunch of things against Steve Jobs.

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Bill Gates. He did create the highest-selling operating system. And also, because Apple is evil.

Billy G. he created it all

Bill Gates and it's not even close. He created the universal standard. Jobs deals in gimmicks and trends.

Pirate700

Well didn't Gates pretty much steal from Apple. It's been a while since I've seen the flick Pirates of Silicon Valley.Nifty_Shark

iPhone revolutionized my life...

can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achieved...I dont even use windows anymore

sboyer2

I just voted Gates cause Steve seems to be full of himself these days.

[QUOTE="ShAbInAtOr"][QUOTE="Nifty_Shark"]Well didn't Gates pretty much steal from Apple. It's been a while since I've seen the flick Pirates of Silicon Valley.Nifty_Shark

Well in the movie it had Bill and his team working with those new LISA computers and basically Bill modified it a bit and started selling it as Windows.

Gates, and it's not even close. And, if I remember correctly, Jobs ran several companies into the ground before he joined Apple.

Also, Jobs just seems like a total dick. Gates appears to be a genuinely nice and benevolent man.

Bill Gates and it's not even close. He created the universal standard. Jobs deals in gimmicks and trends.

Pirate700

And I'll have to completely agree.

Bill Gates. He did create the highest-selling operating system. And also, because Apple is evil.

CRS98

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[QUOTE="ShAbInAtOr"] No not really.No.No he didn't.No.Idon't think so.Nope.NANA.No. :lol:Ninja-Hippo

Well in the movie it had Bill and his team working with those new LISA computers and basically Bill modified it a bit and started selling it as Windows.

Well I think they do have a patent on multitouch... which they didn't invent. :evil:

Bill Gates. He did create the highest-selling operating system. And also, because Apple is evil.

CRS98

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Well in the movie it had Bill and his team working with those new LISA computers and basically Bill modified it a bit and started selling it as Windows.

scoots9

Well I think they do have a patent on multitouch... which they didn't invent. :evil:

Bill Gates by far. Steve Jobs has had some alright ideas and I'm sure he's a smart enough guy, but I think the genius behind Apple is Steve Wozniak. I'll give Wozniak credit any day.t3hrubikscube

I'll say Steve Jobs because you guys can cry and scream all you want about Apple, but the fact is he's a genious marketer and can sell his proucts EVEN IF THEY'RE GARBAGE.

But it doesn't really matter what I say here because you guys are incredibly biased towards apple so you'll probably start saying a bunch of things against Steve Jobs.

inb410millionpc>mac pics

ushotdead

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I'll say Steve Jobs because you guys can cry and scream all you want about Apple, but the fact is he's a genious marketer and can sell his proucts EVEN IF THEY'RE GARBAGE.

But it doesn't really matter what I say here because you guys are incredibly biased towards apple so you'll probably start saying a bunch of things against Steve Jobs.

inb410millionpc>mac pics

Serraph105

And steve stole it from xerox.

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iPhone revolutionized my life...

can't say the same for anything Bill Gates has achieved...I dont even use windows anymore

Ninja-Hippo

oh come on now. The Iphone is a multifunctional device in which you can do almost anything with so long as what you are doing uses technology.

Bill Gates. He did create the highest-selling operating system. And also, because Apple is evil.

CRS98

Well the poll speaks for itself, unlucky Steve.

Also I like how Microsoft invested in Apple.

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"]Bill Gates by far. Steve Jobs has had some alright ideas and I'm sure he's a smart enough guy, but I think the genius behind Apple is Steve Wozniak. I'll give Wozniak credit any day.clayron

Steve Jobs. He never "created" a product, he just made it even better. I think the iPad will be very important not just for consumer use, but for other fields as well.

I like Gates more than Jobs. However, I think without either not much would be different from now. I think the PC as we know it was almost an inevitability by the time Gates started selling windows and Jobs has not done much but prove how dumb the human population of earth is.

I dont really like Steve Jobs.

I think they're both nothing without the armada of genuinely intelligent, creative people working for them. They both just have the honor of taking what those hard-working people create and unveiling it on a stage in front of all the media. Ninja-Hippo

I think of Gates as more of the competitive businessman. He isn't someone who knows how to create big things himself, but he's good at taking the achievements of others and packaging them into a marketable product. He's good at pushing that product.

Steve Jobs I've always thought of as a more artistic type. I remember seeing him interviewed in the '90s about the design of the Apple II. He went into great detail about the use of space inside of the unit, and he spoke of the placement of components in clearly artistic terms. It was like a canvas for him. He merged the technical and creative in ways I hadn't really considered myself.

In other words, I don't believe they are directly comparable, at least not in the context of the question, i.e. "visionary/smarter".

Jobs is repeatable able to convince millions of people to pay for his over priced shiny products.

That takes high levels of intelligence on his part.:P

Definitely Bill Gates.