I find it interesting that you think he was merely grease in a profit engine. Mobile phones existed before the iPhone, but it’s certainly not easy to just come

I find it interesting that you think he was merely grease in a profit engine. Mobile phones existed before the iPhone, but it’s certainly not easy to just come out and make something that is so extraordinarily popular that it changes the industry. And he did that time and time again throughout his career, in different ways. As I noted in another comment, he was probably quite an asshole. And that is unfortunately a trait that has been true of countless major figures throughout all of history. Being an asshole is a rather orthogonal consideration. It’s also remarkable, whether you like him or not, that he took a company on the brink of bankruptcy, and that was so trivial as to hardly matter anymore, and built a foundation that made it the first trillion dollar company in the world. Say what you want, but he was quite a remarkable businessman.