Steve Jobs has died. The passing of a visionary. I don’t want to degrade his memory by turning his death into news fodder. But I do want to mark it down on my blog.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has passed away at age 56 on Oct 5, 2011.
To me, he created. He literally created the market that his products thrived in, and others followed.
Steve Jobs brought Apple from the brink of bankruptcy to become the biggest company in the WORLD.
He created trends and completely new categories of products and market segments, that competitors had no choice but to follow.
There are companies and there are big companies. But with the same amount of resources or more, none has been able to reinvent the technology scene like he did.
This will be the passing of an age, and I don’t think we’ll see another Steve Jobs for a long time.
May he rest in peace.
CUPERTINO, Calif. — October 05, 2011
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
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Steve Jobs had only resigned as CEO slightly more than a month ago. And the launch event was just one day prior to his passing. Think about that. At least he saw the launch of the iPhone 4S. Although he’d have loved to see the launch of the iPhone 5. Apple and Tim Cook are on their own now.
I think you made a very good point that he literally created the markets from thin air. He’s like the best salesman ever. He doesn’t create products, he creates demands for the products that he want to sell.
I’m still bitter by the fact that everyone was like WOOOOOO AHHHH when he introduced Facetime because I was thinking “What’s new about video calls?”
But that’s where he’s brilliant. Anything he introduced immediately got a reaction that it was the next best thing.
Thanks Nicolas. Remember after the success of the iPhone when he planned to launch the iPad? Microsoft already were doing tablet computers a few years before that, which didn’t take off. The other players were understandably apprehensive as to whether iPad and tablets will crash, and nobody dared even jump in even though they knew Apple was going to launch a tablet.
The rest is history. And because of the wait and see, the competitors were a year late before coming up with ANYTHING to challenge the iPad.
Honestly, if the iPad were made by any other big traditional brands, it’d likely be unable to escape the ignominy of the earlier tablet computers. That’s why I said that the other big companies have the resources or more resources than Apple. But without Steve Jobs, they weren’t be able to match Apple’s products. He has the X-factor and gives his products the X-factor.
btw, I’m not an Apple-head. But I do respect Steve Jobs for his ability to turn what he touch-ed into spectacular success.