Why Steve Jobs died

[unity100]

Oye vey.

Can we not steamroll, please? Whether we are all correct or incorrect in some ways, it would behoove us to practice "grace" from time to time and to allow casual conversations to come and go for the sake of enjoyment, rather than constantly worrying that each post is going to be taken to the boxing ring for full and utter scrutiny!

Thank you,
Steve

my concern here is the truth.

earlier in this thread it was more a concern for the lost liberties and the disturbing trend. however after oceania's post, which went as far to idolize steve jobs and credit him with the spread of internet and even thanking him for revolutions in middle east or whatnot, now i have a totally different perspective.

it seems, a personality cult is at work here. leaving aside crediting the person who was responsible for harming freedoms on the internet (and even your own in-house device) to a great extent, with revolutions and freedom, when i look back at the technical side of things what i see is only form over content in what is being praised.

nothing steve jobs 'popularized' had not been available before jobs. all of them were there, and in abundance. there were very easy to use hardware and software too, even if not succeeded to be popular.

so, what's the difference here ? why has this person come to the point of being credited with something he had harmed more than any government ?

when i look into this i see valuing form over content. and nothing else. that was what made apple sell its products over its competitors, and develop a cult, die hard following which actually identified themselves with its products. DESPITE they are sold with common components from prices that are 3 to 4x of the normal, and then still limiting the freedoms of the user to force it to use apple's own amenities which were again overpriced.

so much that, some apple services were resorting to changing the screws on the serviced devices with proprietary screws which were very hard to open without getting the proprietary, publicly unavailable screwdrivers, so that apple device users would not go about fixing their devices themselves or through 3rd party services, at one point in time.

there is that much harm under the surface of this, and yet, people went to the point of being able to credit some person who had only nothing to do with the development of, but detriment of the internet ?

how ?

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the process here is not too dissimilar to what has transpired in the past of this planet before in similar occasions - from religions to nations.

this subject is much more deep and intricate than it seems on the surface.