Why Steve Jobs died

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What do you guys think?

Rest in peace, Steve. :idea:

he had negative controlling traits. he wanted to control. not only what his users did on their own devices they bought, but also technologies as well.

as of now, the lawyer army he probably effected with what you have quoted in your post, is arguing in european courts that apple holds the rights to what you can term 'shiny rounded metallic edges for electronic devices', barring samsung from selling better devices than apple for cheaper price.

he did a lot of marketing and advertising, leading to unpopular but previously invented innovations and inventions to get popular, but then he proceeded to claim them as his own and control them and prevent anyone from using the same.

he had done us much bad than he did good. his popularization of some tech items to mainstream public is grossly overshadowed by the fact that the closed, walled-in, controlling trend he set with apple has caused almost all major companies to take the same route in order to make more profit. and now the information technology, and naturally internet, its content creation and distribution is on a trend towards less pluralism, more control by few powerful corporations.

everyone from amazon to even google now wants to build walled gardens, sell devices locked in to those walled gardens (as much as they can get away with) and then control the production/distribution/sale of content in those gardens and cash-cow their customers.

in a way, the process of 'thoughts turning to things' seems to have worked in job's case.

but, who will undo the grand damage he did to people's freedom ?