If Einstein, or Thomas Edison, or Tesla had died during our time, would you have mourned any less? Would you be sick of the news in one day? I think not. Steve Jobs was on their level. If you don't get that, you haven't really paid attention. Like most geniuses and truly gifted creative people, he was a flawed human being, sometimes terribly so. But he also got what life was about, and he lived it uncompromisingly his way, and in the end, he changed the world and brought products and ideas to the masses that they never knew they needed.