However, there are plenty of people whose contribusions to humanity wastly exceed what Jobs did. Would they get this kind of coverage if deceased? I seriously doubt that.

It's annoying - I mean yes he made some excellent products and an arguably visionary ability to capitalise on consumers, but most of his products were hardly original - he just took existing ideas and made them more user friendly and pretty.

That's the whole point. Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile but that didn't mean he had no impact in how quickly it was adopted!

Wow, what an ass. I hope you get hellbanned for this.

I'm pretty sure he meant that Steve deserved the respect that the community is showing for him.

I'm pretty sure he didn't.

Sorry for the confusion! I didn't know about showdead and thought you were talking about ComputerGuru's comment.

I'm pretty sure you misunderstood.

Swombat isn't talking about ComputerGuru's post but rather the now deleted reply which was highly offensive.

This is why everyone should browse with showdead turned on. You get the full picture :-)

Thank you for the tip, Peter. I didn't know about showdead until now.

what a complete knob

Only a complete idiot would say this. Wow :-(