What metaphor? He didn't say "If Apple was a country, it'd be China". That's a metaphor. He said "If Steve Jobs ran a country, it'd be China". That's a hypothet

What metaphor? He didn't say "If Apple was a country, it'd be China". That's a metaphor. He said "If Steve Jobs ran a country, it'd be China". That's a hypothetical. And really, do we want to go there? Did several million people die during the cultural revolution, several hundred die during Tianamen, and the continuing abuse of human rights, just so we could crack jokes about Jobs? It seems a bit in poor taste. Otherwise, let's just go whole hog, call him Hitler, paint a moustache on his portrait, and Godwin the whole thing.