If you read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, you get a good sense of the rivalry between Jobs and Bill Gates and Microsoft, or between Apple and the rest of the world more generally. But the rivalries were really between that past/present — and the future — and Jobs and Gates were only playing parts that were scripted long ago. The play’s outlines are of insurgent new ideas against the status quo. It’s hard to look at the tech industry and think about a “status quo,” given the creative destruction inherent in all of it, but it’s there.
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The Insurgents and the Status Quo
Posted by: Denis Pombriant March 21, 2012 05:00 AMIf you read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, you get a good sense of the rivalry between Jobs and Bill Gates and Microsoft, or between Apple and the rest of the world more generally. But the rivalries were really between that past/present — and the future — and Jobs and Gates were only playing parts that were scripted long ago. The play’s outlines are of insurgent new ideas against the status quo. It’s hard to look at the tech industry and think about a “status quo,” given the creative destruction inherent in all of it, but it’s there.