Don't confuse my interpretations of what Jobs was saying with what I believe. That being said, if I had to interpret what Jobs would say to your statement, I b

Don't confuse my interpretations of what Jobs was saying with what I believe. That being said, if I had to interpret what Jobs would say to your statement, I believe he would say that the iPod was inspiring, it transformed how people listened to music. And he would be right because iTunes became the largest seller of music, to the point that artists no longer sell CDs as much anymore, it's all piecemeal mp3s. In terms of Google search and maps, I would also intepret Jobs saying that it has good functionality, but what made it great was tying it together with the iPhone. If you watch the famous 2007 interview with Jobs and Gates at the allthingsd conference, he mentions how they showed Google Maps to the Google engineers and they were blown away at how much more useful it was using the iPhone. The iPhone completely transformed the experience, and brought it to a new level, which is what he predicted the iPhone would do. And if you listen to what Marissa Mayer said earlier this year, 2011 was the year when more mobile users used Google Maps than desktop users. Google maps is a completely different experience with a smartphone, and it's those sort of transformational, humanity-targeted aspects that I believe Jobs was going for, not just engineering functionality.