Both of them, all of Apple really, are a capitalist success story.

Steve Jobs was born to immigrants and lived a relatively lower middle class life. He revolutionized personal computing and created demand for a product category (home computers), his work in GUIs persists to this day.

At NeXT, he once again changed computing, the internet was invented on a NeXT computer, Doom was written in a NeXT computer. NeXT was bought out by Apple and their work evolved into OS X.

Instead of the beige boxes people were used to, Jobs showed everyone computers can be colorful with the first iMac. He changed the music industry with iTunes and iPod. He absolutely destroyed the cell phone status quo with the iPhone.

Politically, Jobs was a democrat, he had Bill Clinton over for dinner once, he even told Obama to let all foreign college students into America with a green card. He got Apple to manufacture in China because the rigorous QA testing at an acceptable cost was available nowhere but China, his move to manufacture there improved the lives of many Chinese individuals.

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Why Tim Cook should be a flair option is self-explanatory, he was literally an option for running mate in Hillary’s 2016 campaign.