• Newser, Tuesday, June 8, 2010 2:23 PM

Now that Apple has surpassed Microsoft to become "the world's most valuable technology company" -- in the words of The New York Times -- Michael Wolff asks: "Has Steve Jobs won?" Well, working in his favor is the fact that so many powerful people have so much invested in the success of Apple's products.

Case in point, Rupert Murdoch "certainly has spectacular ambitions for the Wall Street Journal on the iPad, hoping for a million more subscribers," writes the author and Newser founder. Still, "It is true that, behind the scenes, there is a huge gnashing of teeth about Jobs' plans to control everybody else's sales and revenue models." Gnashing or not, Wolff proclaims that Job is now "even more powerful in his universe than Murdoch in his, which is saying something." Furthermore, "We may never before have had a single executive in a public company who is so personally powerful."

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