Cost 600 bucks. How does that help civilization. Oh maybe a few well pampered hipster's children get access to it, but how does that work for the rest of the world that averages 2 bucks a day income levels?
In Ghana, more than 60% of people have a mobile phone, but that wouldn't be possible if the development of the hardware (both for the actual devices and the network infrastructure) hadn't been made cheap by years of development paid by the rich countries.
I am saying it is not on the same order of magnitude as fucking electric lighting.
Why must this be difficult?
If its not effective for all, forever, its just a blip on the time line. A thousand years from now we will remember Einstein.
Jobs? Not so much...