Steve Jobs 1955-2011 posted: 09 Oct, 2011
A late tribute I know and I can not really add anything that has not been said a lot better by many others.
I am sitting in our office typing this on a macbook pro, with a mac pro and iMac sitting at the moment switched off, the iPhones are currently quiet (for once). An Apple fan, yes, but no mindless Apple “fan boy”. We made the switch from PC’s just about four years ago and have never looked back. The attention to detail in all aspects from the design aesthetics of the actual machinery to the rock solid operating systems which power them. No blue screens of death, crashes are very rare and viruses virtually non-existant.
However the impact of Steve Jobs is far wider than that, we now take tablet computers and touch screen phones for granted, something while he did not actually invent he honed into a useful tool, making us all realise we actually needed what before we did not appreciate.
His great vision and drive has changed the world we inhabit, he spent much of his life fighting the establishment, and ended up bigger than them. he refused to live his life the way others considered the norm.
I have been amazed at the strength of sentiment expressed on the web as to how much his death touched people, myself included. I never met him, I never had any contact other than through buying his products, yet a feeling of loss exists. I guess this is the true mark of a genius that his life indirectly touched so many people.
A life well lived.