Try this piece by tech reviewer Mossberg on for size. 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576613732041665792.html?mod=WSJ_GoogleNews&mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1
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On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:25 AM, Geoffrey Heard wrote:

> At 10:54 AM +0200 6/10/11, Farid Benfeghoul wrote:
>> Dear Kino,
>> 
>> When I woke up this morning, I heard Steve Jobs passed away, at age 
>> 56. Somehow, I thought, with detachment, that this how life is. But 
>> a couple of hours later, watching those inspiring, uplifting and 
>> touching videos you kindly posted for us, I realized what a 
>> wonderful human Steve was -- beside of being such a creative genius! 
>> Yes, thank you Steve!
> 
> I appreciate the Macintosh but . . .
> 
> "Wonderful human"? Are we talking about the guy who denied paternity 
> of his first child, going to the bizarre extreme of claiming he was 
> sterile and thus it was impossible for him to be the father (he 
> later, much later, admitted paternity; how nice of him)? Who drove 
> his employees mercilessly -- 80 hour working weeks are spoken of 
> (sure there were big rewards for some, but for those who buckled it 
> was the door)? Who out-Microsofted Microsoft in using litigation to 
> jam down on any competition? Who along with Gates and Tea Party types 
> has been supporting the formation of charter schools which undermine 
> the public school system in the USA? Who used charity donations as a 
> marketing ploy early in Apple history and didn't revive them when the 
> company began to be hyper-successful?
> 
> He was a very smart businessman but also a very ruthless one. Like Gates.
> 
> Wozniak built the Mac. The GUI came from Xerox. Jobs's creativity was 
> clearly in business tied to an unrelenting drive that meant he 
> stopped at nothing.
> 
> I admire achievement in any field but I don't admire the output of 
> the PR machines that turn ruthless businessmen into wondrous, well 
> rounded, caring, human beings -- or rather, the facsimile of same.
> 
> Cheers, geoff
> 
> Geoffrey Heard
> Business & Environment Writer, Editor, Publisher
> The Worsley Press