wc@5: Would a great man be more important to God than Joe Blow?

I don’t know either, but I think the response to Jobs is more than superficial gadget idolatry. The “hit” for many of us (I am one year older) is more related to Jobs representing what was good about the much maligned Boomer Generation, situated as we are immediately after the so-called Greatest Generation. The other thing about Jobs, which people forget, was his remarkable and inspirational comeback after he was severed with very public vitriol from his position as Apple’s CEO in the mid 1980′s. Sweet. We don’t all get to experience that. Also, as is well known, I assume, he was a Buddhist. Lastly, a tough way to die.