The fact is that Jobs revitalized a major corporation that was going down for the second time, brought it back to solvency, and injected some new and beautiful excitement into an industry sector populated by dull clone-mongers and grubby mass-production imitators with very little innovation in it.

The fact is that he advanced the product line dramatically, re-defined the company's vision, re-wrote the music industry's map with iTunes and the iPod, and did it with a vision as good as any in the market place, both technically and aesthetically.

I think his detractors are just jealous. He makes no claims to perfection in his person or his products but he keeps moving ahead and dreaming new directions up. Eat yer heart out.

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