Just want to chime in on this. I was extremely saddened (and shocked) to hear of his passing.
I hardly ever agreed with him (or with the company he was so entwined with). He wasn't an innovator, he wasn't a technologist, he wasn't a philosopher as many made out.
But I did always respect the one thing he did, repeatedly, time and time again, probably more so than anyone in living memory - the democratisation of high technology.
Through that enabling of high technology for everyone he did change the world in a very real, very literal sense; we now live in a world, essentially, of his instigation. The world really is worse off by his loss.
