Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by ARandumGuy on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:37AM
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I'm dying to know how other tech CEOs rank on your "historical figures ordered by importance" list. Like, do you think Steve Jobs was more or less important then Harriet Tubman?
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by kridsdale1 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:05AM
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Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.
Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.
AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition
by Schiendelman on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:25PM
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Telephony, yes. The services that are making massive impact now are dependent on smartphones.