What was it that he designed again?
The more I look at Steve Jobs, the more I see a weird twisted man. One of his first money making schemes was to sell "blue boxes" (which he also didn't design or build himself) to steal long distance services from the Telephone company.
He was a "fruitetarian." He ate nothing but fruits and nuts and stuff. Way overloaded his pancreas with all that sugar. That's what killed him. Just another one of his weird ideas about life.
When I see Steve Jobs, I see a man that appears to have gotten a far better deal from life than he deserved, and far more credit for being "brilliant" (as if browbeating others to come up with innovative designs was "brilliant) than he deserves.
I have asked his fans to point out something, anything, that he did which can be regard as both "his" work, and brilliant. They generally come back with a vague "penumbra" of some sort of influence he had on others. Nothing really solid.
Woz, on the other hand, actually designed and built stuff.
You're being less than honest here. There are a lot of reasons Steve Jobs is hailed as a genius. Here is not one, but several reasons among many.
Calligraphy and fonts. Jobs studied this passionately, and brought it to personal computers. At the time, personal computers were centered on boring monotone text. The world changed because of it.
Blending technology and design. Again, Steve Jobs was instrumental in driving this. A lot of his ideas became actual products that others imitated.
Just in time manufacturing. He didn't invent it, but redefined it at Apple. A big reason why Apple is the biggest tech giant on the planet. When Jobs was brought back to Apple, he turned around a struggling company with his insights and made it successful. A lot had to do with his ideas of streamlining production and inventory control, which has been imitated by many other companies.
Retail store design. Again, it was his idea to make Apple Stores, and how to build them. They bring in more dollars per square foot than most other stores. All because of his insight.
These are just a very few of many, and they are all Steve Jobs. His work, his brilliance.
Apple Computer Company. Without Steve Jobs, it would not exist. Steve Wozniac wanted to give away what he built to his friends for free. He would never have built a company. Never. It would not have happened. Steve Jobs designed and built Apple Computer from scratch.
The GUI based computer at Apple. Prior to Steve Jobs insisting on it, the Lisa was going to be a Command Line based computer, but he, and only he, forced the change to a GUI, mouse driven design, and he negotiated the deal to bring the LISA engineering team to Xerox PARC where he drove the agenda of what he wanted, in a computer. That was the driving force. Watch this video interview from about 30 to 36 minutes in for the perspective of one of the XEROX Engineers who was at PARC when Steve Jobs came calling with his team.
Computerized use of Calligraphic Fonts in Computing and typesetting. Steve Jobs insisted that the fonts in Macintosh computers must be excellent and would not sign off on them until they were the best that could be. . . having studied calligraphy he understood fonts and typefaces as no other computer engineer did and as a result we have desktop publishing and WYSIWYG displays and printing, something that did not reach the Microsoft world until many years after the Mac had it because of Steve Jobs innovation in making it integral to the GUI. To do it, he required the screen had to have square pixels. . . not rectangular. That was Jobs, and required lots of engineering to make it happen. His innovation. He also made the page the metaphor for the screen. . . because that is what people worked with. Again, Steve.
NeXT Computer Company. NeXT computer company would never have existed without Steve Jobs. . . he designed and created this company from scratch and the inspiration for the design of computer was Steve Jobs', no one else's. It followed the concepts and precepts of what he could not do with the Macintosh.
PIXAR PIXAR would not be what it is today without Steve's input. . . it was going down the tubes. No, he did not found it, but he re-vitalized it. . .
Apple Computer post 1998 EVERY product had Steve's imprimatur before it could be manufactured . . . and it had to meet his exacting standards or it did not get made. Or even green lighted to be started as a consumer product. That is a talent beyond value for a company to know what NOT to make. Few companies have that talent and waste a lot of resources making unnecessary products that simply don't sell. Apple had few flops under Steve Jobs because of his ability to know what would be the next thing that would be needed in the market place.
You damn Steve Jobs because you don't know what a man like Steve Jobs can do. . . because you really don't understand what "innovation" or "design" entails. IT is not sitting down at a drawing board and drawing a design, or inventing a circuit, or even coming up with a cool look. . . it is often finding and directing the talent around you and controlling what they come up with and assembling their collective efforts into a cohesive whole, making everything come together into an esthetic, working, operational and profitable product that CAN be manufactured in a reasonable time line, in sufficient quantities for a reasonable cost that can be sold in sufficient quantities to keep the company in the black. . . and do it consistently with wonderful products that the PUBLIC loves! Steve was a brilliant genius at doing all of that!