Thank you Steve Jobs

I've just heard Steve Jobs has passed away. I've never really thought much of him and I've always been quite critical towards the public's fascination with him, but I have to respect some of the decisions he made at Apple were responsible for some brilliant progressions in technology. It's likely that without him technology such smart phones and computers would be quite a bit more primitive and harder to use than they currently are today, so at the very least I have to respect him for that.

I feel the media used to portray Steve Jobs like he was the only person who works at Apple and that he alone invents every new product, programs it and builds it himself. He clearly had great ideas and a great vision when it came to new technology, but I don't feel he deserved quite as much praise for products the Apple produced as he got. I mean sometimes it seemed like he was almost viewed as Apples mascot by the public.

I think Bill Gates summed it up well saying:

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