"Apple announces Steve Jobs has died."
For a moment, I pondered if this was true and it turned out to be so as the tweets and news articles rolled. It was something that we kind of expected, but when it came, it still caught me slightly off-guard. Maybe it was too soon after he stepped down in August, and just a day after the announcement of the new iPhone 4S.
It is at times like this, that one would think of how a visionary such as him had influenced our lives and lifestyle. We know it's all team work, but somehow he made things move. You could say he changed the way we lived, and also pushing other tech companies to come up with more competitive products.
In my own personal journey with Apple, I believe my first encounter was with the Macintosh. It was when my primary school first introduced computer classes and what they had was that. I was intrigued by this first all-in-one PC which was diversely different from the old black-green screens of the older generation (I had only used computers to play games then). Following that, being the young me then, always thought Apple = Macintosh. And that's how Apple got stuck in my mind, even as a childhood memory.
Fast-forwarding to more recent times (after a seemingly dull period for Apple...probably when Steve Jobs left for a while), I recall the first iMac range with its delicious look in my Uni days. Another iconic innovation where looks and compactness mattered in functionality. And during that time, the first iPod emerged too. It changed the way we would carry music. Although I believe they weren't the first to have MP3 players (Creative?), it played a major role in revolutionising the way we used them. The 'touch' would be it. No more walkmans and discmans. And the move towards iPod Touch.
Then we have the iPhone that literally changed the smartphone industry. Ya, there were smartphones and there was THE smartphone that even babies can use. I think most can do the "slide" thanks to that. All the apps and ease of use. And of course the iPad with it's amazing graphics. Not the 1st tablet, but one that made a difference. Not forgetting the MacBooks, revamped iMac too, and their powerful OS and software applications that made making music, etc. so simple.
Apple has continued to introduce innovative and cool products that made computers and affiliated gadgets become accessories, and it achieved this under the direction of Steve Jobs. So salute to the man. The memory of his legacy lives on.
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