Steve Jobs was brilliant and his achievements wont be forgotten anytime soon, but some of this hype is really going a step to far and i say this as an Apple user.
He has done great things for the industrial world in bringing them luxury devices to solve luxury problems, but this is a really small part of the world. Most people dont have enough money to buy his products, like all his workers at the Foxconn factories for example. Its amazing how Apple was able to keep such a clean vest while still doing many not so nice things big corporations do these days, but as long as everyone has their nice toys noone seems to really care.
Most great inventions/products start out being available to the wealthy before being cheap enough to be accessed by all. I'm sure you think of lightbulbs as commodity items now, but back when the first few lightbulbs were manufactured, only the wealthy could afford them. 50 years from now, smartphones are probably going to be so available you'll buy one from walgreens in their discount aisle.
He has done great things for the industrial world in bringing them luxury devices to solve luxury problems, but this is a really small part of the world. Most people dont have enough money to buy his products, like all his workers at the Foxconn factories for example. Its amazing how Apple was able to keep such a clean vest while still doing many not so nice things big corporations do these days, but as long as everyone has their nice toys noone seems to really care.