Why Jobs is more glorified than Bezos?
Bezos built Amazon, Blue Moon, Kindle, Alexa, Audible, the Amazon Basics products sold in Amazon, etc. etc. The products are more versatile and cover many domains in one's life.
Alternatively, you have someone as Jobs who gets way more attention (movies and books) and is classified as the ultimate innovator despite just improving phones and building MacBooks
Jobs is seen first an entrepreneur and then as CEO, etc. Bezos is seen first as a billionaire, followed by CEO, and finally as an entrepreneur. Jobs = innovator. Bezos = capitalism
Why is that? It's because their success happened in different generations that view things differently?
Jobs and Bezos are both geniuses in their own way. Bezos had much more wealth than Jobs, but Jobs was much more unique (and eccentric, like Elon Musk or Howard Hughes) so people tend to like him more. Jobs was a design genius. He really didn't care about making money, only the actual product (unlike Bezos, who is a standard Forbes billionaire who happened to get lucky during the tech bubble).
Because jobs is dead and is a what if story
Bezos > Jobs. They're the modern analogy to Edison vs Tesla (and if you haven't seen the history, Tesla was the real OG and Edison was just a grifter). And not to mention that similar to Edison and Tesla, Jobs would've been jack all without Wozniak there to actually engineer stuff. Jobs literally bought his success off of others, or tried to sue it out. Then disowned his own daugther, burned down NeXT, based everyone's glorified MacOSX on FreeBSD but monetized the hell out of it and tossed the GPL in the trash along the way, but got lucky with Pixar. Jobs was a definition of scammer and hack.
Differentiating factor is that Bo Burnham never wrote a song about Jobs
Despite the attention Jobs has received, he still wasn't really liked that much. He was very much known as a jerk but he got stuff done so there was a hate/love relationship with much of the public
With that said, I personally think the biggest difference is how generations perceive and define success
There was also a lot less visibility into the manufacturing side of the business when Jobs was around vs today. Imagine trying to develop the Foxconn partnership today.. Probably wouldn't have been as successful at gobbling up the smart phone market
Jobs is falsely attributed with making the first smartphone. Not true. He did develop a phone (iphone) for kindergartners and senior citizens tho.
I'm sure most people would argue with me that it was the Blackberry, but I personally lean towards Nokia.
Idk good question. I am highly uneducated about Jobs but it probs cuz he fits the standard mold of the contrarian, genius visionary - he was a jerk, he got fired by the company he founded, made a comeback, was ahead of his time in terms of knowing what a consumer would look for in terms of aesthetics and versatility. He's also a very good speaker, motivator, wears casual clothes to work etc - management textbooks therefore love to debate him and roast him. Bezos fits the mold of the traditional entrepreneur which follows the conventional wisdom of a management textbook and MBA lecture lolll - too boring in other words
I'd argue that the smartphone which Jobs pioneered packs a heavier punch in terms of revolutionizing consumer tech - the Amazon products you mentioned has a lesser reach, I personally don't even use them.
I think Bezos is smarter tho lol - guy literally started in DE Shaw and did engineering at Princeton. Jobs was a dropout from a weak semi-target. So there's that
For the average person, Jobs had a way bigger influence (real or perceived) on their everyday life than Bezos. 90% of humans on planet earth own a smartphone. There's more than 1 billion iPhone users, and you could argue that Samsung/Google phones designs were heavily influenced by iphone also (full touch screen for example).
The iPhone/smartphone is completely revolutionary, probably the second biggest change in our day to day lives in the last 50 years after the internet.
What is Amazon in comparison? A general store that can ship very fast if you live in America. It's the Sears of the 21st century. It's a logistics marvel, but logistics don't get people excited like design does. Also if you go in Asia or Africa, nobody uses Amazon. I doubt they could compete worldwide like Apple does.
OP really tried to put the Kindle and Amazon's private label crap on the same level as (or even above) the iPhone.
Agreed. Jobs was the bigger visionary.
Attraction bias. While Steve Jobs was nowhere near the sexiest man, he was much much more attractive than Jeff Bezos is, so people are subconsciously biased to prefer Jobs over Bezos. Jeff Bezos is hard to look at.
Didn't know Bezos invented Blue Moon, damn that guy rules
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