We idolize celebrity and even more, we idolize consumer objects. Steve Jobs was wildly popular in life because of those modern (American?) values, and being dead is a huge magnifier on both of those fetishes, because we can forget about his shortcomings.
He made a remarkable contribution, he hurt some, he has created platforms that squeeze all the profit away from software and into hardware.
May he rest in peace, and his family find peace. But he's not superhuman, he's just human.
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We as a society idolize the dead.
We idolize celebrity and even more, we idolize consumer objects. Steve Jobs was wildly popular in life because of those modern (American?) values, and being dead is a huge magnifier on both of those fetishes, because we can forget about his shortcomings.
He made a remarkable contribution, he hurt some, he has created platforms that squeeze all the profit away from software and into hardware.
May he rest in peace, and his family find peace. But he's not superhuman, he's just human.