Yeah, nothing compared to building the foundation for *all* tech since the 70s and for the next DECADE
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Well, one could argue that the creators of C introduced us all into a dark age in which we still are mired. With C and all its family of imperative languages we straddled away from the ways of LISP and functional / declarative languages, so now we are still trying to get things done while monkeying with C++ and Object Orientation and Design Patterns, and only little by little the industry is realizing that maybe we got a wrong detour in the 70's or even earlier. Look now at the resurgence of functional programming and functional extensions to every language, the despair about multithread / multicore programming with our current tools, the appearance of VM's and JITs everywhere, the take over of said VM's by functional languages (Scala vs Java), ... look at what computer science luminaries have been doing and saying since always (Djikstra, Knuth; even Stallman used C mostly as a portable assembler, leaving LISP for anything high-level).
So yeah, there is still a chance that the last few decades will be looked at as a costly experiment that didn't work out. An anomaly fueled by the appearance of GUIs (and their plug to object orientation), the computer market explosion of the 80's and 90's ("leave that LISP machine, the money is in these Windows thingies!"), and the low-hanging fruit of single-core Moore's Law ("yeah, the software is slow, but anyway the new Pentium will be so fast that it won't matter!").
Meanwhile, at least we have a mouse in every computer and multitouch in every phone, thanks directly or indirectly to Steve Jobs.
(I am not as radical as pictured here, but better don't push me

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Did Steve Jobs invent the Telephone? Were cell phones available before the iPhone? Were tablets available before the iPad? Did touch screen phones exist before the iPhone? Did apps exist before the iPhone? Did cameras on phones existed before the iPhone? Did MP3s exist before the iPod? Did music streaming exist before iTunes/iPod/iPhone?
Of course, apps existed. And the thing was so nasty that understandbly the market fell in love with Apple.
I take it you never had to look for and install a J2ME application on a Sony Ericsson or Nokia phone.
Why is everyone regarding him higher than god himself when Jobs' involvement was evolutionary, NOT revolutionary? Is it 'cool' to hold him on a pedestal these days?
I would like to understand what is you problem with those words, "evolutionary" or "revolutionary". Why are you so hanged up with them?
And anyway, what was ever "revolutionary" for you?
And about "god himself", I don't know, do you mean I should not be making these sacrifices to Him?