Steve Jobs - Great, or not?

I'm sharing it not because I agree with it, but I like the author because he's critical. Nonetheless, critical does not suggest that he is right.

Comparing Jobs to a morally great man is not a fair comparison. After all, do we recognize Jobs to be a morally great man? No.(Not morally great does not equate to immoral.)

What we recognize Jobs for was for the fact that he revolutionized our cell phone technology; his ingenuity and ability to incorporate our daily necessities into a phone.

Saying that any other man could have done what he did is plain ridiculous. We are living in the age where by information is spread by the seconds; What matters more is not the ability to deliver(or replicate, oh Microsoft) the product, but the ability to generate the idea that leads to the initial formation of the product.

While it is not fair to say that the technology would never be invented without Jobs, it wouldn't be fair either to say that any other would have invented the same technology(at a similar time) without him.

You are right in saying that Jobs wasn't great in the sense that he placed heavy emphasis on philanthropic work, but you might want to consider other aspects of being great. He was great because he delivered a hell lot of convenience in our lives - He gave us what we wanted. (I am not even going into the argument of the time saved from the integration of technology, and what these savings translate into.)

Einstein was a great scientist, Plato was a great philosopher, Michael Jordan was a great basketballer, Mother Theresa was a great humanitarian, and the list goes on. Maybe we ought to reconsider what we define being great to be.

So, Mr. author, before you start saying that Jobs ain't as great as we perceive him to be, please know why we actually consider him to be great in the first place - Not his morals, but his brilliance and hence our convenience. A fair judgement please.