I never had an Apple...i mean, other than the fruit...(recently though the "fruit"should be
termed as the other one..:pp)
Re-phrasing..
I never had the luxury of owning an Apple PC or for that matter any of the i's...(pods,pads,phones..etc), nevertheless Jobs was always a fascination.
The fascination was his personality...his impeccable style ...the turtlenecks...that
complimented his mercurialism perfectly...and then when you thought of him as a nasty guy...he
would absolutely mesmerize you with his amazingly poised voice and sharp philosophical mind that
constructed each sentence with an astute artistic brilliance.
If there were to be a fight between Science and Arts to own Jobs..i think Arts would have had
him.
He loved technology..he surely did...But his creations have a stamp of an artist.
I did not have the opportunity to know him personally, but i believe that he started out as
a techie and soon fell in love with his creations.
He acknowledged the importance of value in his creations.
That i believe was the stand-out and one of the many reasons why Apple was never a
Microsoft.
Bill and Jobs together owned 100% of PC market, but Jobs was never the "PC guy"...he termed Bill
as the "PC guy".And he was right...Jobs was the "Device man" or the "Gadget freak".He saw
innovation as the route to salvation, may be literally, after his illness.
He really must have believed in legacy.
His stamp was on everything Apple made.
Even when he was terminated from Apple..innovation never eluded him.He created
Pixar and gave Toystory.Wht a genious !!!
His famous Stanford commencement 2005 speech, in which he talks about three things: Life,Loss and
Death, deeply reflects his philosophical side.
He calls Death "äs the life's only change-agent".
Its amazing that we are all mortals and yet when we look at someone ailing we feel sorry for him ..that he might not live for long.
But what guarantee do we have.
Only beacuse we dont know our exact end-date we pretend not to care and "waste living someone else's life".
Jobs understood this .
Now he's gone .He has left us wondering.
Expectations from Apple are at an all time high and one man -Tim Cook is really sitting on one of the hottest seats ever!!!
As far as Apple is concerned...I just hope we are not left foolish and hungry after the exit of the man himself.
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