He did invent the universal remote (but it got copied by everybody right away.)
He's a nice and well meaning guy and was a consumate engineer. But he was never the product guy.
On the Apple II he liked to try and get as much functionality out of as few parts as a challenge-- a technical challenge. It was Jobs who knew this would let them have a competitive advantage (or cared about it, anyway.)
He was critical to the early years of Apple. Jobs was not nearly as good of an engineer (but unlike what many people seem to think, Jobs was an engineer.)
but it was Jobs who understood how to make products really great, and why you needed to, and who made Apple the company it is today.
It was Jobs who cared about design as much as engineering.