Steve Jobs hired good people and then made them do their best, through a combination of paying attention to details, having good taste, and weird psychological terror tactics. People like Jonny Ive, Tim Cook, and Avie Tevanian were just as important in later years as Woz.
People do keep bringing up the "outsourcing to Asia" point, and it's fair, and it's a shame. But I'd hope for people to do more about global economic conditions besides take the opportunity to be a contrarian or online wiseass when others are marking someone's death, which frankly is all I've seen.
This, incidentally, is the best piece I've read on the economics of outsourcing, which touches on "Why Amazon's Kindle can't be made in the US" and the differing fortunes of Dell (which outsourced *everything* including design and engineering work and thus is being destroyed by its former contractors) and Apple (which keeps engineering and design in-house). One of the reasons why NeXT wasn't a marketplace success, was that Jobs insisted on building a whole bunch of high-tech factories in the US, hoping to bring down costs via automation, instead of via outsourcing, which by the late 80s was already the conventional wisdom. Jobs used to have a vision of Apple (or NeXT) being a company that was almost 100% vertically integrated, turning raw materials into finished products. But unfortunately he couldn't pull this off and part of Apple's financial success in the 2000s owes to the fact that he just gave up paying attention to supply chain issues, letting his less-idealistic lieutenants handle those sordid details.
