I wonder if any Windows/XBox/Zune users are going to get so butt-hurt over a comment like that when Bill Gates dies. Ya know, the guy that's put billions into programs for charity and education and disease prevention throughout the word. The guy whose Giving Pledge, which has amassed hundreds of billions of pledged contributions, was not entered into by Steve Jobs. Yeah, that guy.
Last time I checked, and I check often, Jobs actually did away with all of Apple's philanthropic programs when he returned to the company in 1997. He never reinstated them with Apple posting $10B+ a year in profits. People are acting like Mother Theresa died when in fact someone died who basically capitalized on egocentric consumers to realize glorious profit. Jobs started up a foundation in 1985 when he was basically a rising star, and he shut it down very quickly after that to start up NeXT. Once he had the finances and power to actually do something beneficial, he dumped it into bigger and better profits! Libraries? Hospital wings? Schools? Research labs for global diseases? Who needs those things, just put out some nice shiny iPods, that'll make the world a better place.
People die by the truckloads every day, kids are starving throughout the word, and the internet is riddled with posts about one guy who satisfied a basic consumer demand and reaped huge personal gain in the process. Wow.
