Five years ago today Apple changed the world of smartphones and mobile computing forever.

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29. All hail the Great and Powerful Jobs!

Honestly, this kind of stuff is puke-worthy.

Forget the fact that Jobs was a deadbeat dad, that he exploited Wozniak, that he ripped off his first big idea from Xerox, or that the factories in China that make the iCrap had to put up suicide nets. What really gets my goat is not the man himself, but the Jobs-worship.

And make no mistake, what Apple has been for the past decade, what makes its products so "special" is nothing more than the blindingly obvious fact that these products are nothing more and nothing less than class markers for the contemporary American upper-middle class.

They can drive Priuses, they can join CSAs and pay premium prices for their ramps and arugula, they can afford to subsidise their post-collegiate children for at least a few staycationing hipster years in Williamsburg or Silver Lake, but nothing is quite so talismanic as the latest, most expensive Apple product: is it the iPhone 4S at this point? It's so hard to keep up.