[citation][nom]nuvon[/nom]I know a lot of people don't like Steve Jobs. Reason? I don't know, [/citation]
There is a simple reason for that. Just look at Apple's patent trolling in the last few years, and remember that all this cretinism was started by Jobs' extremist ideas about what tech should be.
Initially, around the time of that interview, Jobs was indeed a brilliant marketer. No, he did not personally invent anything (although he took the implied credit for everything good that came to Apple after that, forget the army of designers, software and hardware both, that worked their arses off for this company; can any of you name one single time where credit was publicly given to any of these designers, for instance?...didn't think so), but he had a good idea in that speech.
Unfortunately, he turned from being a Lenin of Apple revolution into a Stalin, hell-bent in going after anything and everything that posed a significant threat to his empire. From patent-trolling to injunctions, him and his followers never spared a dime to that end, even if that meant taking away from actual innovation (incremental upgrades that are gradually disabling older gen devices, forcing customers to buy the newer ones again and again are not exactly innovative). Plenty of Apple customers out there pissed off because of that.
Add to that the fact that they are resorting exactly to the same tactics they are accusing their competition of (stealing and then shamelessly patenting the stolen tech, usually open source so they can not fight back on patent grounds), and you have a great picture of what this empire's vision has become for the tech world: a world-wide army of drones, all using the same device, all looking the same and without anything to individualize them.
Luckily, there are more than 60% of mobile users in the world that believe there is something wrong with that picture (not to mention that the MacOS presence in the desktop/notebook world is symbolic at best), and that's why I believe there will always be an alternative to this grey-with-a-fruit-logo bleak tech future.
I. personally, don't have a dog in this fight, and that is the advantage of using an open OS: I can like a manufacturer today, but if they let me down tomorrow, I can as easily turn to another one. THAT is what Jobs hated the most, people having other choices besides his company's products.
I hated the fact that he died still young, nobody should go like that, but that was the best thing to happen to the tech world. Sad, but true. Just like he turned his company for the better at first, he single-handedly turned it into the equivalent of the communist Russia at the apex of Stalin's dictatorship.
A lot of people have it in them to become great leaders, but very few have it in them to bear that greatness. One dude that did - and still does that_ is Gates, an example of great humanitarian, envied by Jobs for that effortless class act.
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