Acknowledge? Yes. Study? Hmmm. Admire? Not really.
It's not all about Steve the Ego.
Actually, it is.
I still find it shocking how many people just don't get it. I suppose they are the same types who are responsible for the dumbed-down, group-think, designed-by-committee products out there today. While I haven't studied Steve in depth, and he is not some sort of hero to me, I can readily see that Steve, and Steve alone, is responsible for EVERYTHING that Apple has become. In the hands of a Bill Gates or any other automaton business drone, Apple would have withered away by now, overrun by other bland, uninspired companies.
Steve has a VISION, and is uncompromising about it. Steve has often contradicted entire teams of engineers and designers who wanted to dilute or overcomplicate products and forced them to do it "his way". The thing is, his way is often a model of uncompromising genius in design, form, and function. He has a vision of what the product should look, feel, and perform like, and he sticks with it, regardless of how many people tell him it can't be done. The only reason that Apple products are THAT thin, THAT high quality, THAT elegantly designed, is because Steve demanded it.
Yes, reports indicate that he has often been derisive and abrasive in his championing of a singular vision of Apple products. But without his determination and, yes, assholishness, we wouldn't have the remarkable, revolutionary products we have today.
So, yeah, it is Steve.
