Both of them are very successful, but most of the people would say they can't be more different from each other. Jobs is the kind of person that believed as long as Apple can make the best products on the earth, it will make money. Gate of the type that believes as long as Microsoft can make money, it can make good products. Ultimately, both are right. There are people hate each of them, and there are people worship each of them, but I don't see someone can worship both of them at the same time.

There are many reasons why they are successful, it could be their personality, intelligence, interest, etc. But I think their persistence in their own ways made both of them successful.

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Steve Jobs died

My first encounter with Apple computer was in the late 80's. I was in the middle school and learned Basic programming on an old Apple II.

My second encounter with Apple was in college learning C on an Mac. Apples hardware always impressed me. I loved the clickieness of the Mac keyboard.

I eventually became a PC person because I loved to play with computers and change things on them. But I always has to say Apple's design under steve was top notch.

It was almost unbelievable to see the iPod took over the mp3 player market, after so many company failed at attracting customers with all kinds of mp3 player designs. Similarly, do many PC companies tried tablet PCs, nobody could find the right combination of design, usability, content as iPad could.

I still don't own many Apple products, but many products I use were influenced by Apple.

Steve Jobs was the soul of Apple. It is hard to imagine Apple without Steve.

RIP Steve.