All of what you say is true but everyone misses the one thing he was GREAT at: * Jobs was absolutely the best at understanding what his customers wanted before they wanted it and simplifying the product experience to the absolute minimum in order to maximize the user experience that his customer wanted. Most people that talk about Jobs don't fully appreciate nor understand this. Example #1: Jobs created the iPod at a time when we had an infinite number of mp3 players on the market to choose from. Example #2: Jobs created the iPhone at a time where we had an infinite number of cel phones and smartphones to choose from, I still have my iPaq for posterity. Althought I can point to a lot of products to explain what I mean, the best example is any interview where he is on stage sitting and having a conversation with an interviewer and perhaps a few other people. You will see the DRAMATIC, and I mean ABSOLUTELY DRAMATIC difference in how Jobs is able to synthesize complex ideas down into simplest forms. Everyone else on the stage either doesn't understand how big of a mental map he had about the world he lived in to draw from and certainly none of them had the kind of weird focus that he had to take that data and synthesize it down to an idea that he was able to explain clearly. Everyone else does the normal white person bullshit which is get lost in the weeds of the details. I always learn from my enemies, but I don't celebrate Jobs because he isn't white. He is Syrian, a semite.