By Devin Leary-Hanebrink Over the past few months since his unfortunate passing, the media has consistently praised Steve Jobs for his many talents. Frequently, he has been described as one of history's greatest innovators, standing shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Einstein, Da Vinci, and the Wright brothers. While such statements about Jobs's talents are not false, they certainly miss the point.
To "innovate" is to "introduce or make new." Jobs rarely accomplished this feat. In fact, Jobs was notorious for plagiarizing great ideas. He poached the concept of a graphical user interface (GUI) from Xerox. He bought Pixar from George Lucas. He copied Sony's Walkman. He was even a poor programmer, relying heavily on Steve Wozniak's talent during Apple's formative years. Furthermore, in a 1996 interview for the PBS series Triumph of the Nerds, Jobs himself admitted, "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."
But back in the 1970s, while his computer club was happy meeting once a week, IBM was content selling mainframes, and Microsoft was a small startup in New Mexico, Jobs already recognized the power of this new technology and envisioned personal computers in every home in the world.
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