"Many very smart people who know far more than I do about Woz, Jobs, and Silicon Valley give the highest praise to Jobs." I believe they do so because they're

"Many very smart people who know far more than I do about Woz, Jobs, and Silicon Valley give the highest praise to Jobs." I believe they do so because they're praising the wrong thing. Making money for investors is not all that good of an end in and of itself. Clearly, this is subjective. But, I don't consider Jobs to have been particularly good for the world, despite his many obvious talents at directing the making and marketing of popular products. I have a quite strong anti-Apple bias, based on my belief that Apple has dragged the tech industry backward rather than forward in terms of providing more access to technology education and more access to the technology economy to more people, particularly the poorest people. Just when Open Source was pushing the world toward freely available source code for everything (and succeeding), Apple's App Store was slicing up the pie, with proprietary software effectively being required to participate (locking out all but the relatively wealthy from participating), and serving the biggest piece of that pie to themselves. But, that's just my opinion. Many people think Jobs was great, and that Apple is good rather than a negative force.