And every single time I see an article about Jobs accompanied by a set of comments from a tech-savvy audience I see this same comment about Ritchie (and sometimes McCarthy) resurfacing. You can continue feeling sour about it, but not everyone deserving attention receives as much as they should, and not everyone receiving attention deserves it as much as they get.
Ritchie's and McCarthy's personalities and accomplishments just aren't as interesting to the general public as Jobs', which has little to do with our definition of success but more with the fact that, to be able to obsess over someone, we need them and their work to speak to our imagination, which is a lot harder when their accomplishments are less trivial to understand without any knowledge on their field of study.
General public's tastes and interests can be shifted. Many years ago, Chinese people value hardwork and intelligence. Now they admire same thing as Americans smartness and fame.
While that may be true, it most certainly hasn't happened in the last 3 years. Maybe over time people will stop valuing Jobs' work higher than that of Ritchie and McCarthy, but I think it is likely to stay like this for the forseeable future, just as it has been for quite a while.
