No. It's not. It's because Jobs and Apple are simply better than their competitors are at design and execution.

All this success came at a price.

Dude, did you really just say his success caused his cancer? You gigantic, pompous prig?

In a normal universe, Jobs would have quit and spent loads of money getting better. However the cult of personality which had developed around Apple had forbidden that.

The Macalope doesn't know about you, but he cannot conceive of an instance where he would suggest to someone with pancreatic cancer that if only he had spent more money, he might have cured himself. But, then, he's not a jackass of Farrell's caliber.