1. Goodbye, Mr. Jobs. We will miss you so very much.
Steve Jobs is dead. The Apple
chairman and former CEO who
made personal computers,
smartphones, tablets, and
digital animation mass-market
products passed away today.
We're going to miss him.
Deeply, and personally. Steven
P. Jobs passed away on October
5th, 2011 after a long struggle
with pancreatic cancer. He was
just 56 years old. He made the computer personal, and
the smartphone fun. Bill Gates may have put a computer on every
office desk, but it was Steve Jobs who put one in every dorm room
and bedroom and living room. And then, years later, he repeated the
trick, putting one in every bag and every pocket, thanks to the iPad
and iPhone. After his return to Apple, the company began shipping
iconic product after iconic
product. Products that defined
a decade. The iMac, OS X,
the iPod, iTunes ,the
iPhone, the iPad. All of
these were deeply human
products. They reflected
his understanding of how
technology was used not
only in the workplace, but in the
home. In his keynotes, product demos typically showed not
executives, but families. He was nota god. He was simply a man.
Our world will be less interesting, less exciting, and less meaningful without him.