The Boston Globe is reporting, “It was the loss of this remarkable, relentless talent that stunned the electronics industry when Jobs resigned as Apple’s chief executive in August, and named Tim Cook as his successor. It was well known that he was struggling with pancreatic cancer, but his resignation was still a shock, perhaps because it was so difficult to conceive of an Apple without Jobs at the helm.”
And Bloomberg reporting, “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives,” Apple’s board said in the statment. “The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
As I sit writing this on my Apple MacBook, I am amazed how one man’s vision changed the entire world. He will be missed!
And now, what next? Myself, I will light a vigil candle; light for the way.
I must confess that I didn’t expect it to be such big news that MSNBC would report on nothing else tonight.
where is your abiity to be completely awed?
Steve Jobs took the most far-fetched Star Trek gadgets, made them real and gave them to us! If he lived another 10 years Scotty might be beaming us up. He was a rare genius that learned to love and embrace imagination.
Maybe you needed to have grown up without the expectation of having new life changing technology every year. Surely some here can remember how breathtaking it was.
And I’m typing this on my MacBook — the latest in an unbroken string of Apple products since I had an Apple IIc back when I was in grade school.
The lack of charity still lingers and makes his rival look better