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▲ kridsdale1 a day ago

Globally? Honestly he probably was. Hundreds of millions of people have access to heath and finance resources they wouldn’t have got without the modern smartphone form factor and forced negotiation of unlimited data plans.

Ask someone in Bangladesh who the fuck Harriet Tubman is.

▲jcranmer a day ago | parent [-]

AIUI, the rise of mobile telephony in the Third World was driven almost entirely by feature phones, not the kind of smartphones that Jobs helped to drive.

▲Schiendelman a day ago | parent [-]

Telephony, yes. The services that are making massive impact now are dependent on smartphones.