He said "point and click" and we all did. He said "pinch to make small," and we did. We did these things not because he told us to, but because he knew that we already wanted to.
He said we will carry our music in one place, and we did. He said we will download our entertainment, and we did. He said we could carry everything we need in the palm of our hands, and we did. He said that our technology should be a hub for all of our information, entertainment, and means of communication, and it should create an environment for us that feels comfortable, intuitive, seductive, and satisfying. He said we would not only desire that, we would not only embrace that, but we would ultimately require it. He said we would do those things and we did.
Steve Jobs hasn't merely created technology for us. He has created the way we interact with it, and in so doing he's recreated the way we live. I recognize that he's not dead and I'm not eulogizing, but this resignation means that this man has to do the unthinkable, for him and for us, which is to leave the place where he literally imagined us into changing the way we live our daily life.
We've evolved because of Steve Jobs. We see technology the way he sees it, and that's because he, like almost no one else, has always had a unique ability to see the world as we see it.
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I have to agree with you. I still have the SE/30 I purchased over 25 years ago.It still works. After reading your piece I realized that my whole day is made better by Steve Jobs.
Funny, how when Jobs does it, it is called "genius", if anyone else tried to enforce a Jobsian level of conformity on any other area of our lives it would be called "communism".
Jobs is the communist of technology ... let him disappear into the trash bin of history where he belongs.
Actually, Xerox said that with the Alto. He ran with it, as did many others.
"He said we will carry our music in one place, and we did."
Not really. In fact, Apple was pretty late in the game on that.
"We've evolved because of Steve Jobs."
That's pushing it.
The iTunes store equalled the playing field for many artists and I have discovered amazing musicians I never would have been aware of. Music was made accessible and easy to explore.
I think the most important contribution Steve made is inspiring the ordinary person to participate in the tech revolution. Before he came along things were done a certain way in IT and many talented people felt locked out of the industry.
He infused energy into the tech world and inspired an entrepreneurial spirit in people who probably would have only seen the high walls around the giant tech companies and no way in. He showed everyone that ideas count.
Hats off to you Mr. Jobs.
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Actually, the MP3 codec did that, particularly via the distribution network of Napster, Morpheus and Kazaa. Jobs merely capitalized on it after the fact. If anything, MP3.com set up what iTunes actually became (and was more artist friendly), particularly for independent artists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3.com#Original_version
Tell me gentle snowflakes, if a corporation doesn't hire people when it's at it's most profitable and successful, then when IS it supposed to hire?
Apple has abused the tax code for decades, done nothing but send your jobs to China and you sit there and praise and reward them.
And before you jump on your soap-box and start screaming, "BUT everyone makes their product in China". This is true... But not everyone is claiming to be the most profitable and successful AMERICAN company ever.
Sacrifice... you people cry when American Idol gets interrupted. If you gave up your precious iPhone the world would probably end for you... But you should think about it.
Great chap.
In any even, this particular article about him assumes that everybody is a Mac-head, which is absolutely not true, even for some graphic artists. I have never been able to figure out how to work a Mac, though I am a Dos/PC/Windows whiz.