Steve Jobs: We Will Miss You

Steve Jobs passed away this week. The story circulated worldwide through mediums he helped inspire. Thousands of messages flooded the Internet, news, Twitter, and Facebook. His vision impacted so much of what we use today: mobile phones, movies, music, personal computers (though he would not like me using that term), laptops, tablets, and software development.

He inspired computer users to a fanaticism Bill Gates only dreamed of. To this day, my father reacts to some saying “Would you please close the window?” with “Bill Gates stole that concept from Apple.” Apple users stayed loyal.

For three decades he, with Bill Gates, defined an economic revolution the equivalent of the industrial revolution of the century before they were born. They may not have invented the Internet, Al Gore did. They didn’t invent social media. They created the engines that social media utilized.

Finally, the legend of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak creating Apple in a garage inspired a generation of business start-ups.

My eloquence does not match the millions of people who reported the life and death of Steve Jobs. I merely join with them in saying “Steve Jobs: We will miss you.”