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I'm for the truth. Jobs was not as innovative as people think. It's a lot easier to reinvent a product that already exists then it is to come up with a totally new product. Apple doesn't do new. They do changes to products others already have. That is the truth.
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With all due respect, I disagree. Everybody is focusing about the iPhone and iPad, which by the way I don't like, but that is NOTHING compared to what Steve Jobs did in the early days.
Steve Jobs INVENTED THE MOUSE! Exactly, the little thing everyone has used to post on this thread was first released on an Apple computer, in the early days at Apple. True, there had been prototypes before, but never (at least to my knowledge) a complete package of a visual operating system with windows before Microsoft released windows. He did not invent the mouse as a physical object, but he invented the way we use it today.
Again, I'm not an Apple fan, all I have from them is an iPod nano I got as a present and I hardly ever use, but without Steve Jobs the computing world would not be what it is today.
And if improving is so much easier than inventing, why did he do it so much better than anyone else so many times? In my opinion, because he was a genius and because refinement is not easier, is just different (and a lot more profitable - see how much money Xerox made on the mouse, close to nothing).