>>20407820Epitome, I should say, not definition.
>amazing human beingFor some definitions of amazing, yeah, he was. He's got a very interesting, full life story if you bother to read it.
He was also a colossal ass who treated most of his employees like shit and fought a multi-year court battle to tear down a historic mansion he owned just because he felt like building a new one on that exact lot. Won it and the building was torn down just a few months ago. Yep. Few vices, few virtues, etc. How does he weigh down in the end? He died hours ago; how the fuck are we to weigh the total sum of his life now? That takes years.
>millionaireUnfortunately- and it really is unfortunate- the way the world works now anyone who achieves any sort of influence and prominence winds up a millionaire. Writers who publish two or three books are millionaires. Avant-garde composers are millionaires. There are fucking millionaire bloggers.
Don't hate the player, etc.
>sold overpricedIf you define "overpriced" by margin- probably the best idea in the abstract, granted- then, yeah, of course. If you define "overpriced" by "relative to market value for the equivalent goods from your competitors," no, Apple's right in there. Only in /g/'s world where the only metric of a computer is game FPS/dollar are Apple computers overpriced. Compare a Macbook Pro to an equivalent Thinkpad.
Again, player, game, etc.
>gullible idiotsRight, which is why some of the world's most intelligent people use Macs. I don't myself, for a number of reasons (I've never even owned an iPod- the closest I've come to owning an Apple product is routinely using a corporate Newton back in the '90s), but go read
usesthis.com and see what keeps coming up, to the point that it gets boring after a while.
