I do not follow the messiah attitude of many others, and frankly find the hero worship obscene. A great marketer, possible a great engineer, but remember if he had had control of the PC market we would not have PC's available to all regardless of wealth. His stuff was ludicrously priced and did not entere the realm of general availability until quite recently, perhaps forced to do so by economics. I have absolutely no professional relationship with Microsoft and they have not always been right, however they are the ones who have made computing possible for all. Those people who queued for days to buy the latest fad from Apple/Mac/iPod etc. in another realm would be called obsessive fanatics. I just think they were foolish people with more money than sense; the target audience for Jobs.
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