One year on from Steve Job’s death and yet again we see the fanboy crowd come out in full force, stampeding over each other in their desperation to lavish praise on their hero as if he was some kind of demi-god.

Jobs’ legendary status has begun to take on such biblical proportions that some commentators have even compared him such undisputed geniuses as Leonardo Da Vinci,  while sheep like Mark Zuckerberg fall over themselves to get their tributes in ahead of everyone else.

It’s enough to make me feel violently sick.

Okay, so Steve Jobs had some fairly good ideas, I’ll give him that. Perhaps, it could even be argued that he was a revolutionary in his field, but seriously, just what has this man done to earn such mythical status? What has he really done for the betterment of mankind?

How on earth does this guy get more attention than the likes of, say, Wangari Maathai (who???), the Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent a lifetime fighting for democracy, women’s rights, sustainability and peace, and died just one week before him?

Let’s face it, the guy wasn’t a nice person at all.

Steve Jobs was a shit.

He was selfish, ignorant, greedy, and to be quite frank, he wasn’t even that intelligent, not when it came to the really important decisions (like his cancer treatment).

It isn’t necessary to qualify these statements, but nonetheless I will do so, in the vain hope that I can make even one of the brainwashed legions open their eyes and see this arrogant fool for what he really is.

Steve Jobs was a man who bore a heavy responsibility for the labor exploitation at Apple’s Chinese factories, something he couldn’t care less about until being publically shamed into doing so, despite the fact that given his vindictive, controlling disposition, he must surely have had (at the very least) some inkling of what was going on.

Steve Jobs was a man who selfishly denied paternity of his eldest daughter, lying in court that he was sterile (!) and refusing to pay child support for years, before he eventually acknowledged that Lisa Brennan Jobs was in fact his child.

Indeed, the man’s parenting skills were questionable at best – there is a lot of evidence to suggest that he displayed favoritism to his son Reed over his two younger daughters, while his relationship with eldest daughter Lisa continued to be stormy even after he finally acknowledged her.

But perhaps the saddest thing about Steve Jobs is that despite his success in making billions and billions of dollars, the guy was one of the most bitter, most hateful individuals on the planet. He hated Flash, he hated Android, he hated Bill Gates… Why so much hate Steve, really?

Was it because he suffered from a kind of megalomania?

His desire to stamp out all competition and monopolize the computer industry certainly supports that theory. To massage his overblown ego and pursue his dreams of worldwide domination, Jobs needlessly wasted thousands of man-years of productivity, banning virtual machines such as Flash, Java, and .net on iOS and forcing everyone to re-write code in Objective-C, acts that were a scandalous waste of resources in these scarce times. Apparently, such was his arrogance and hatred that the guy even wanted to block Google search from his products, before coming to his senses and realizing that such a move might actually remove the blinkers from his hordes of groupies.

In the meantime, he didn’t spare a moment’s thought for the well being of others. Hell, even Muammar Gaddafi used to donate a portion of his millions to charity, something that the former Apple dictator has no record of doing.

Which makes it all the more sad that he was happy to throw away millions and millions of dollars feeding the coffers of his dirt bag corporate lawyers, launching fruitless lawsuits against anyone who ever dared to launch a rival product similar to his own. And yes (before you object) they are fruitless lawsuits, for Apple will never be able to stamp out the competition like they want to. Even if they do ultimately win, such a scenario won’t happen for many, many years to come, by which time all of Job’s ‘ideas’ will have become defunct anyway.

Let’s face it, the evidence points overwhelmingly to the fact that Steve Jobs was a mean, nasty, and controlling individual who only cared about himself. He certainly didn’t care about his victims customers, who are still being extorted to this day, brainwashed into thinking that his overpriced products are some kind of status symbol that they must have at all costs – with some even going to the lengths of selling their virginity or their kidneys to get their hands on them.

Sure, Steve Jobs created some beautiful objects – the iPhone, the iPad, the Mac. These are all fantastic products. He was also very good at making money. And no doubt, he will continue to serve as an inspiration to CEOs and entrepreneurs for many years to come.

But do these achievements – his only achievements – outweigh all the negative sides of his character? Are they so grand that his countless faults can be overlooked while the mass media showers praise on him and makes him out to be some kind of idol?

No doubt today, we’ll be reminded again and again and again of how badly Steve Jobs is missed, and repeatedly told that the world is worse off without him and his ‘innovation’.

But are we really worse off? Do we really miss him? Do we miss his stinking attitude and his hatred and his overblown ego, constantly telling us how great Apple products are whilst everyone else is a cheat?

I don’t think we do.

I think most people were actually getting tired of his whole circus act, and with any luck, once this anniversary is out of the way, people may finally start to forget about Steve Jobs and look to the future – a future where that man’s name is no longer mentioned, instead replaced by that of younger innovators, who, with any luck, might actually be more deserving of the praise that will follow their success.

Steve Jobs, good riddance.