Steve Jobs is not a role-model

I use Steve Jobs' own words: "Innovations lead to the innovations".

His own company, his own products don't lead to the technical innovations.

When you read the history, when there are no new ideas, but a sophistication of what was built, this indicates a decline of the culture. A slow stagnation.

If we value products like iPhone, MacBook for it's candy-crash like UI as the greatest thing in the technology, then it's clearly marks the stagnation of the culture.

I use iPhone (my family bought me as a gift), it never lead me to build something with it. So for me neither Apple, neither Steve Jobs are respected nor role model.

I think they have important in the popularization of the technology. Apple is like Chinese internet, it takes the app and packs it in a nice user interface.

These kind of products should be respected by UX designers, not by technology companies. They should take Apple as a role model when it comes to the intuitive user experience when using the technology.

To give you analogy, you can't say google is the better than Yahoo in terms of technology because Google has a minimalistic main page. But that is going on with the Apple.