Is this what Steve Jobs was talking about?

So I recently finished the Steve Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson.  It was a bit tormenting as the author dedicated so much time to Apple computers and so little time to everything else that you never knew about the man.  After getting through a lengthy part about how important getting not only glass for the iphone, but the right type of glass was to Jobs I nearly threw the whole thing out the window.  I was tired of Jobs promoting his closed system of computing and dissing on Bill Gates and his open system.  No man should be judged on the materials he sells, should he?  Shouldn't we be hearing more about Jobs's devotion to zen thinking or his frequent trips to Japan?  Or his family?

Anyway, I think it finally sunk in during a very transcendental moment in class yesterday.  I have been taking classes to learn how to be a good teacher, and yesterday we were focusing on the importance of school wide initiatives to improve academics and behavior.  As we discussed these techniques, in the back of my head I heard Steve Jobs say to me, "See- you need a closed system where things flow seamlessly from instance to instance."  It was weird.  I had just had a conversation with someone about how I don't care enough about computers and business to want to know how important Steve's corporate  and technological actions were.  I wanted to know about his thinking, the funny thing was, I just hadn't scratched below the surface of his preaching.  He wasn't just talking about computers and devices needing to exist within a closed controlled system which flows so seamlessly a six year old can operate it- he was talking about humanity.  Well, maybe that is taking it a bit far, but he was talking about more than computers and the Apple company (I think).  And if he wasn't, I like him more now imagining him hiding civil philosophy within an ipod.