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Steve Jobs
Oct. 5th, 2011 11:29 pmI was floored to read about Steve Jobs' death today. He'd been sick for a long time, so I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise, but damn.
I don't think there's any technologist who did more in my lifetime to fundamentally change the world. I played on my first Apple IIs in Jr. High, worked with my first Mac in High School. The first computer I bought when I was out of college was a Mac laptop. My Twentieth Anniversary Mac will forever be the coolest computer I ever owned. My iPhone connects me to the world, my iPad lets me browse and play games in my family room, and my iMac is a beautiful wide screen computing device. Coding for the iPhone, iPad, and now Mac has renewed my love for the structure and abstraction of computer programs.
Jobs brought user interfaces to the wider world, and then he doubled down when he returned to Apple with OS X, making the Mac even more user friendly and more of a joy to use. Today we can't yet measure how iPods, iPads, and iPhones have revolutionized the world, but they have! I have no doubt that word of his death spread across iPhones like a wave. He's changed the world for developers by opening up the sales floor, so that any of us can sell things to Apple's customers.
Steve Jobs was a genius. He changed the world, and it's now less for his absence. I get choked up thinking about what he could have done with the extra 20 or more years that he should have had.
I don't think there's any technologist who did more in my lifetime to fundamentally change the world. I played on my first Apple IIs in Jr. High, worked with my first Mac in High School. The first computer I bought when I was out of college was a Mac laptop. My Twentieth Anniversary Mac will forever be the coolest computer I ever owned. My iPhone connects me to the world, my iPad lets me browse and play games in my family room, and my iMac is a beautiful wide screen computing device. Coding for the iPhone, iPad, and now Mac has renewed my love for the structure and abstraction of computer programs.
Jobs brought user interfaces to the wider world, and then he doubled down when he returned to Apple with OS X, making the Mac even more user friendly and more of a joy to use. Today we can't yet measure how iPods, iPads, and iPhones have revolutionized the world, but they have! I have no doubt that word of his death spread across iPhones like a wave. He's changed the world for developers by opening up the sales floor, so that any of us can sell things to Apple's customers.
Steve Jobs was a genius. He changed the world, and it's now less for his absence. I get choked up thinking about what he could have done with the extra 20 or more years that he should have had.