Oh please, Steve Job showed very little -- if not zero -- passion about the US education system. He was an inventor and entrepreneur.
If these guys want to talk about someone who is passionate about the US education system, talk about Bill Gates. It's time to end the Steve Job's love fest.
There are anecdotes that he did care about education such as an Arrington article leading up to the iPad which said he wanted to use use the iPad to change education. He was also an active parent, though not as much as he may have liked.
It's not that much of a stretch to believe that someone like Jobs would think about ways to change education. There are excerpts from the book stating this.
He was the epitome of an exploitrepreneur.
We are happy with what he achieved - but lets have no delusions about how he operated and built his position and fame.
Take 5K for building something he paid Woz $375 for (breakout)...
Similarly, people criticize him for bad behavior to his employees, but I see all apple employees love him (and love him much more than employees in most other companies love their leader) -- since I am an apple employee myself, I know. So I am not sure other people should dislike him for that when the actual employees that he talked to liked him (obviously there would be exceptions, some people obviously did not like him, but most did)
No it does not.
That is NOT what I am arguing - you are putting emotion into a technical claim.
Apple's products are amazing - but to say that Jobs was anything less than SHREWD is just naive.
EDIT:
I DO NOT DISLIKE Jobs.
I am making the point that he was an amazing shrewd businessman - I am not calling him dishonest - I AM calling his tactic exploitative.
Good luck saying they are not. Quality and Success are NOT an issue I am discussing.
SJ and Apple have been fantastically successful at leveraging their position. The company has produced amazing products, but you'd be foolish to think that their margins aren't anything but ridiculous.