Alcibiades
Plant Geneticist
Say what you will about the man and his products, he changed our world, repeatedly. RIP, you will be missed.
Serious question, why is everyone God-worshipping Steve Jobs?
He attached a hard drive to an MP3 player then later on added a phone.
It's not like he cured cancer.
(Also disagree with CF completely and people who don't give him the credit he deserves.)
Who is Lord Sugar?
I don't mean any disrespect to Mr Jobs, but I'm a little confused by some people's reactions to this along the lines of "he changed the world forever", "greatest genius of our time". I actually saw an interview where someone put him alongside Edison and Einstein. Apple said he had made the world "immeasurably better".
Don't get me wrong, he was an incredibly successful and visionary salesman and everyone around the world knows his products, but he didn't fundamentally change the way we live or our understanding of the universe. I'm not saying you have to do either of those things to deserve to be respected and remembered when you pass away, but some people seem to think he did when he clearly didn't. You know he didn't personally design the mac, ipod, iphone or ipad right, and that even if he had there were PCs, mp3 players, smartphones and tablets before any of them.
Again, not commenting on the man, only commenting on *other* people's reactions.