Rest in peace Steve, you made it possible that Microsoft and Billy Boy was not the only computer system on the face of the Earth. I just wonder if he was in charge of Commodore what he would have done for the Amiga.
R.I.P
@amiga Jobs worshippers,
[you made it possible that Microsoft and Billy Boy was not the only computer system on the face of the Earth.]
You also made it possible to cut into Amiga sales, since most MAC/Apple products were placed right next to the Amiga displays. Your swindling fast talking salesman convinced people that the Amiga computers were a cheap no nothing computer, even though they had color, sound and multi-tasking. Your salesman told customers that the Amiga was nothing but a high priced game machine, so I lost 1 customer or more out of every five to a piece of junk techno crap called a MAC, or Apple II. Some people are just idiots and will believe anything a well trained salesman will tell them. (They wore suits, I wore levi's and polo shirts). They were paid $30 an hour, I was paid $7 an hour. They sold crap, and I sold the most advanced computer in history at the time. IBM or PC's were even better than the MAC / Apple II.
[I just wonder if he was in charge of Commodore what he would have done for the Amiga.]
First thing to say about Steve Jobs is "If it wasn't his way it was the highway" Know that first hand since worked with him, if it wasn't his idea, it was no idea. He was a ruthless CEO who kept full control over his computer, programs and OS. So if Steve Jobs was in charge of Amiga, your open OS that we have no would have been strictly limited to NO CHANGES, for Steve Jobs taught that the regular computer user did not have the smarts enough to try to change anything in the OS. He made sure that change in his computers would be very hard to do, and by most standards his computer users are just people who want to turn the computer on, use it to do what they have to do and then turn it off, most of the apple computer users are computer naive. For more information on this subject you can ask Karlos or Wayne, they will probably agree with me.
So if Steve jobs had control of the Amiga you would have a locked down computer, with expensive programs that worked great and the only thing you had to know about computers was where the on/off switch was at.
To Steve RIP, but good riddance to bad company and very bad computers.
smerf
