But in any course it still doesn't make him the kind of person who only comes along once in 3 centuries -- Henry Ford changed the way we do our day to day activities far more than Steve Jobs ever did. So did Edison, with all his electrical inventions which made people feel they needed to have their houses wired for electricity so we could work in the dark with electric light and we could heat ourselves with electric heaters. So did Alexander Graham Bell, who finalized the work of lots of people to allow us all to communicate across great distances. Steve Jobs did no such thing.
Yes, they all changed our daily lives -- all in radically different ways.
So has Jobs.
Are they more or less comparable? I know of no way of measuring that parameter, they are so different.
I had lived my life quite well, thank you, before I ever used a Steve Jobs creation, and even though I'm using one of his creations now I could still function very well without it.
He did nothing to change the day to day activities of probably 95% of the planet's human inhabitants.
Does the present of electric street lights in Chicago make much difference in rural Africa?
Don't think so.
Is the most common vehicle in Delhi a car or a bicycle?
5% is 350 million people. I think you actually significantly underestimate the influence worldwide of Apple products.
On the other hand, I was taught in high school, in 1961 or so, a "Primer of World Politics":
The vast majority of the people of the world are
Asian
Non-white
Poor
Sick
Ill-fed
and Illiterate.
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