So, after being in Cancun, Mexico for the past week, my first blog upon my return was going to be about the rip-off artists in this part of the country, but as we disembarked the airplane, my iPhone's AP news wire alert buzzed. So, I took a look thinking that it might be a text message, but instead it was a headline reading "Apple creator Steve Jobs dies!" We were shocked! I mean it was just a couple of weeks ago that Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of the company, and now this? This was a pretty quick turnaround. Did he already know that he only had days left to live?
For those of you scratching your heads right now and wondering who Steve Jobs was, you should be ashamed of yourselves! Especially, if you're an owner of an iPod, iPhone, iPad, a MAC, a MACBook, or an Apple TV, you should be double ashamed of yourselves! Steve Jobs was sort of the Thomas Edison of our generation! He was a visionary who saw the future and brought the future to us! He took the MAC computer and pretty much put it in our back pockets. Not only that, with his creation of the iPod and iTunes, Steve Jobs single-handedly changed the music industry, as we know it, by letting the little man have a chance in creating business for themselves. How? Well, being able to sell your music on iTunes without a major distributor and cutting out the the BIG record companies. Soon, the big companies faltered and many went out of business. I doubt that this was a part of Steve Jobs vision, but it happened that way with the creation of iTunes and the iPod.
Steve Jobs was a computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. His impressive resume also consisted of chief executive of the Pixar Animation Studios, he was a member of the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company in 2006 following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney, and he was credited in the first Toy Story movie as an executive producer. Back in the late 1970s, Steve Jobs, along with his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and a few others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers that most of us remember as the Apple II Series, which he created in his own Silicon Valley garage. In the early 1980s, it was Steve Jobs, who was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to his creation of the Macintosh computer. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company which specialized in higher-education and business markets. Apple's was bought out by NeXT in 1996 bringing Jobs back to the company that he co-founded. He served as its CEO from 1997 until just last month.
Last night, October 5, 2011, America lost one of it's greatest innovators of our time in Steve Jobs, who had been battle pancreatic cancer since 2004. He supposedly beat the disease, but ended up having a liver transplant in 2009, which attributed to his abrupt weight loss. Steve Jobs was 56 years old, but he has been immortalized through his iconic creations. It will be interesting to see how Apple will survive without him.
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