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I can't even fully express how saddened I was when I checked my Twitter stream on the device that he created to learn that the great Steve Jobs had passed away. He was 56. Only 56, in today's times that is extremely young and he was another victim of that shitty disease - cancer!
I remember my first encounter with a computer as a child in the 80's. It was an Apple IIc, today it's a huge clunky old thing compared to the products that Apple is turning out nowadays but to me it was everything. When the iPhone first hit stores I was one of the first people to purchase it. The first time I used my iPhone took me back to the first day I used the IIc, I felt like I was part of this great and wonderful thing bigger than me. No, seriously that's how Apple products make you feel.
Apple has the best out-of-box experiences of any company. I mean you are almost as excited about the packaging and opening it as you are about the product itself. Steve Jobs is a pure American Dream. He was a visionary, an innovator and a creator. He took nothing and made one of the biggest somethings of our time. His accomplishments and contributions will be experienced and appreciated by generations to come. He is in a word a GENIUS! I didn't know Steve Jobs personally but I felt like I did. I was at my computer to watch almost every keynote because I knew I would witness something that the world would be seeing for the first time. Steve Jobs was a magician, clad in a black turtleneck and jeans instead of a wizards robe and hat.
My prayers go out to Steve's family, friends and all those at Apple and around the world who had the pleasure of knowing him personally.
If we take anything away from Steve Jobs' life it should be that anything is possible. I think President Obama summed it up best when he said this of Jobs: "Brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it."
