October 6, 2011 What Steve Jobs Meant To Me
Yesterday was pretty somber day. It’s hard to believe that someone I’ve never met before could have had such an important impact in my life.
You see many people see Steve Jobs as an innovator, visionary and creative genius who brought the company he co-founded back to life. To me, he was more than just that. In order to really understand why he meant so much to me, we need to go back a few years, to MacWorld 2007.
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced us to “THREE revolutionary new products. The first one is a widescreen ipod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary new mobile phone. And the third is a breakthrough internet communications device.” “An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator…. these are NOT three separate devices!”
This was part of the introduction for the iPhone and more importantly (for me), it was the turning point in my life that got me interested in technology. It lead me down the path to study something called social media when many of my fellow colleagues at UH weren’t. Had he not unveiled this revolutionary device, I can honestly say that don’t know where I’d be today.
Till this very day, I still watch the Keynote for inspiration. It’s not just the introduction of the iPhone…it’s greatest sales presentation ever! And Steve Jobs was the greatest salesman of all-time.
He had a way with words that are just magical and tantalize our imaginations.
I love Apple’s homepage paying homage to Steve. Simple and elegant just as he preached.
One of the things that I’ve learned from him is that you don’t need to invent something…Apple didn’t invent the computer, nor did they invent an mp3 player, phone, or tablet. What they did was made it awesome by focusing on simplicity and design.
- “Picasso had a saying: ‘Good artists copy, great artists steal.’ We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas…I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists, zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” – Steve Jobs
- “That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” – Steve Jobs.
Innovator. Visionary. Creative genius. Let’s just call him an ICON.
Steve, you will be missed but never forgotten. You will always be my idol and I will always strive to be like you. RIP!
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