not in my book ....
apple was successful only because microsoft got too big, too
easy to hate ....it became cool to be alternative.
it's like singapore .... when the PAP becomes too big, too
entrenched, all encompassing, it becomes cool to either be in the
opposition, or support the opposition.
and of course, they diversified successfully from their core
business, and got into consumer electronics.
It really is clever marketing than anything else ... can all
these be attributed to him ? I don't think so .... their ad agency
should probably get more credit than this chap.
Yeah that's true..... seriously, the only true selling point
about the iPhone is that it looks cool.
I remember laughing my head off when Apple geeks proudly
proclaimed that the iPhone 3G had 'innovations' like message
forwarding and a camera..... dude, those are things that every
handphone consumer has taken for granted for
years.... 
Speaking of which, Apple is not the only culprit here. In their
zeal to be seen as 'anti-establishment', lots of Apple fanatics
have ended up being the very villains whom they used to hate so
much.
They've turned into snobs who think that they've got the best
and diss everyone else who doesn't agree with them.
