Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, as seen on Google’s home page this morning. You click the link and you then see a black and white photo of Steve on the Apple home page. His biography, yet to be released, is the No.1 selling book on Amazon now. Memorials are popping up everywhere – Apple stores, college campuses, parks, city intersections. It’s amazing. I saw a replay of a speech he gave in 2005 at Stanford’s commencement, where he talked about death and how perfect it was.
He meant a lot to a wide variety of people, and built disruptive tech products that people loved to use. He was passionate, smart, talented, and had incredible vision. He fueled an incredible marketing machine to drive Apple products to the forefront of the personal computer, music and mobile device markets.
For me, my first paid programming job was on an Apple II computer. Thirty-something years later, we now have multiple Macs in our homes, iPhones, iPods, iTunes, Apple TV units. We’ve enjoyed these creative, innovative products along with their usability and the Apple content ecosystem for immeasurable hours. Apple products made other products better, yet always seem to develop an edge. That same thing just happened with iOS 5 and the iPhone 4S.
He was inspirational to me and to many others. One of my favorite Steve Jobs’ quotes:
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
– Stanford University commencement address, June 2005.
Amen.
Read my August 25 post about Steve Jobs’ retirement, Once in a Lifetime – Steve Jobs, and the comments from Mobile Masters bloggers.
Tags: Apple, Dan Zeck, Mobile Mastery, Steve Jobs
