I don't wish to sound callous, yet I do not consider Steve Jobs as a great innovator of our time, at least when recent history is taken into account. It's true that Apple is one of the great PC companies and that the first Mac did change a lot, but Apple has, under his leadership, changed into a giant hell bent on control, while offering over-priced products, developing an almost cult of personality-type marketing. One of his patents has the intent of stopping a user from enjoying the product by making him actively respond to an advertisement. He was good, in the past, but perhaps it was high time for him and his ideas to leave the business world.
And of course, RIP.
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