Apple's Co-Founder Steve Jobs Passes Away

I typed up a massive collection of paragraphs correcting everyone’s flaws about Apple and Steve Jobs, but then I realized no one would read a small paperback novel about things/statements/facts that would royally **** off both pro-apple and anti-apple supporters. So here’s the tl;dr version:

Steve Jobs didn’t pioneer anything we know in the modern world. Schools had deals with IBM, digital media distribution was already on the rise, smartphones were well founded by REM, and people already hated Microsoft for no reason (other than ‘windows sucks hurr durr bill gates is the devil’). However, what he did accomplish was spearheading several markets (specifically hand-held tech markets, such as mp3 players), and bringing them into the public eye in ways that no other corporation had done before. In doing so, he found a way to make products viral (iPod), mark up prices (Mac computers), re-create tech made in 2004 (iPad), and still have it appeal to all ages, audiences, and demographics; all the while keeping it trendy. Before long, the pressure Jobs’ ad campaigns put on the consumer to be ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ made Apple products mainstream, and their market success only went exponentially from there. In fact, his ideas generated so much money for Apple that the US gov’t got all jellymad and tried to put a cap on their earnings.
If you have any questions about this, I’d be happy to answer






Personally, however, I respect him as a businessman and no farther than that.