Kevin's Watch

I knew this was inexorably coming…but I am still not handling it well.

Not that I am an Apple fanboy...but I met him in 1975, before any of that, and I have always admired the enthusiasm and the sense that what he was striving for even back then was not material achievement, but to change the world. Not suprising at 20, when I met him...but he never lost that!

He was not a technical genius by any measure, but he was my generation’s Thomas Edison. So many innovations in the last 35 years would not be part of our daily lives without the vision he brought, without the passion he used to inspire and drive others to create the technologies that added up to Apple’s ground-breaking products. Apple II. Macintosh…and iMac. iPod. iPhone. iPad. Then there is the awesome that was Pixar, and to a lesser extent, NeXt.

He spent the last several years battling pancreatic cancer. With his resources and inner strength, he lasted longer than is typical for that disease…but few completely beat that.

I'm the opposite of an Apple fan, but I'll grant his vision and drive. Didn't realise he was that ill.

--A

I was aware it he was very ill - why else would he have stepped down as CEO this past August? But it was still a shock.

I feel sad, even though I never even knew him.

My first computer was a Mac SE - a computer in a box.
I've had Macs ever since, except for one brief period when the family computer was a Compaq, and have always enjoyed using my Macs.

There's no question that Steve Jobs changed the way we all interact with technology.

Well, I mean I knew he was ill enough to step down, but not so ill that he was about to die...

--A

Yeah, it was a shock that it came so soon after he stepped down as CEO, I will grant you that.


Seen posted on the web in memory of Steve Jobs:
I haven an app for that

Scroll down to see the memorial styled in the original Mac OS interface:
boingboing.net/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-has-died.html

For all you Appleists out there:
www.ericdsnider.com/snide/the-apple-of-my-i/

Thursday's xkcd: Make sure you mouse over on this one or you will really miss the point : xkcd.com/961/

Sad Mac


Farewell, Steve Jobs.

Maybe he lost the drive after he quit...nothing to do, y'know?

--A

No, I don't think so. He'd gone on medical leaves before and came back. My guess is he quit at the time he did because he became too ill to work. I'm sure he knew his health was in decline.

I don't pay enough attention. Didn't know he was sick. But I know he had a lot to do with the shape of the world today. Rest in peace.

RIP Steve Jobs. There's no doubt that he contributed to changing the world. I have an Apple obsessed father in law, so I've been a little reluctant to embrace the Apple culture, and I know it has its problems. But I own an iPhone, an iPod, and I love Pixar movies! The iPhone in particular is very user friendly, which I believe was the philosophy behind Steve's creations.