I don't see his death as any different than when someones Great Uncle Fred dies. Fred did some good things, but he was also a bit of a douchebag. When people die it makes us uncomfortable and we tend to cast them in a good light (halo-effect).
Jobs helped get the personal computer pointed in the direction it is now. He was an innovator. He also gave book publishers the nerve to push back against amazon and raise their e-book prices from $9.99 to $14.99. He did a good job leading his company a second time. But the very ego that allows you to do that means that most of us would have considered him an asshole if we met him.
We live in a world that considered Princess Diana a greater contributor to society in the last thousand years than Jonas Salk who gave us the polio vaccine. It's a cult of celebrity. You have to expect the outpouring from the media, Jobs was one of their own.
Jobs helped get the personal computer pointed in the direction it is now. He was an innovator. He also gave book publishers the nerve to push back against amazon and raise their e-book prices from $9.99 to $14.99. He did a good job leading his company a second time. But the very ego that allows you to do that means that most of us would have considered him an asshole if we met him.
We live in a world that considered Princess Diana a greater contributor to society in the last thousand years than Jonas Salk who gave us the polio vaccine. It's a cult of celebrity. You have to expect the outpouring from the media, Jobs was one of their own.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson