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While he did invent lots of stuff, I think it's pretty undisputed by the people close to him such as Jony Ive and Andy Hertzfeld, that Steve was famous for claiming other peoples ideas as his own.

[Edit: Jony Ive describes this in chapter 26 of the biography. See folklore.org for more examples.]



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