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Six weeks ago, when I heard that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO
of Apple saying “unfortunately the time has come…” my heart sank knowing his
battle was lost and his days were numbered. Yesterday, when I heard he had
died, it still hit me like a ton of bricks even though I knew it was coming.
I had to make a drink and sit down and ponder what just had
happened.
I remember working with my brother Stef at Pointe
Scientific, Inc. when the MAC revolution began. We were like kids with new toys
and when we started bringing in Macs into the company, many still thought we
were playing with toys and of course now the world cannot live without
computers.
The Mac was a user friendly machine when compared to the IBM
system that only highly trained computer geeks could use or operate; the Mac
allowed me to be a computer user and boy did we use it.
Steve Jobs allowed us to experience being at the cusp of a
historical shift in the way the world operates; children born today will never
know that feeling that experience.
Here was a man born out of wedlock to a graduate student who
gave him up for adoption, agreeing to let a couple who were college drop-outs
adopt him if they promised to send him to college. The best thing his adoptive
father did for him was to give him his own workbench and the rest is history.
We can talk about fairness but as we know, life is not
always fair and you have to live or die with what it gives you. A visionary
genius, he undoubtedly had many more productive years ahead of him and I hope
he drew up some of his visions for the future for others to follow because it
is those visions that had changed the world forever.
We can only imagine what went through his head as the end
drew near, why me…just a little bit longer…one more project…and then blackness.
His legacy will live on forever and history books will
praise him forever and I will remember him and thank him for changing my life,
forever.
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