Agreed - Technology is about the evolution of products. Who cares who invented the Integrated Circuit, I care about who developed it into a product that provides me a benefit. I had an HTC smartphone before the iPhone came out and it was neat and provided me a one stop source for phone/pda/music/gps, but it was slow, clunky and no-where-near intuitively designed, then came the iPhone. True it wasn't first, but it definitely was best, and I feel that Apple has done that in many different categories (Desktops/Laptops/TabletPC's)
Steve Jobs will be greatly missed, and I hope there are others in the wings who will step in to fill the huge vacancy/vacuum left by Steve's death.