I was going to write a great post tonight, as I sat down with my cup of coffee and some RHONJ to tide me over until the Brewer game. But then I got the news alert: Steve Jobs had died. I know this will be THE story for awhile, and it should be. Apple fan or not, you can never deny what that man and his company have done for huge advances in technology. Like Pixar movies? Thank Steve Jobs for being a early investor and huge supporter of the computer based animation they were doing in the 80's.
He was one of the ultimate quirky people, someone I've come to admire. I jumped on the Apple bandwagon in 2005. I bought my first iPod (2nd Gen!) Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Shortly after, during that spring, I bought my first laptop, a iBook G4. It's now almost 7 years later and I'm writing to you from that same laptop today. I've never had a problem with it. No viruses, no malfunctions and although the OS is outdated, it still works like a new computer. Since then, my family has become an Apple product family. As I write this, I have my iPhone next to me, and my son isn't far away with our family iPad. Over the years, I've really become an Apple geek and I'm proud of it. None of that would be possible without someone willing to believe in a dream, and Steve Jobs did that.
The tech world will mourn his loss for awhile. There were plenty of people who freaked out when he stepped down as CEO this year, so this loss will be felt for awhile. The question is still on a lot of people's minds: Can Apple exist is as it is today without Steve Jobs? For years, they'd been synonymous. The bi-annual Apple meeting with Jobs in his standard blue jeans and black turtleneck and round glasses. He was his own person and proud of who he was and what he built.
We will mourn the man, the vision and the legend.
