Like the billions of people in the world, I am one who cannot get over Steve Jobs' passing. Working at an Apple Premium Reseller, he was the person I truly admire since I first caught sight of that bitten apple years ago.
I will forever remember the day that I got to hold my first iPod, it was Magic. Some girls dream of meeting the love of their life or having their first kiss during that time, whilst I was dreaming of getting that gadget that changed the way I listen to music. When I first saw it on TV, it was love at first sight. Up until now, every time I put my earphones on, I felt tranquility, peace... convenience, simplicity, just the way Steve wants it.
I knew of Steve's passing when I launched Safari on my Mac. That moment, that was the way he wanted it. It was all over the internet, Twitter, Facebook and etc. Yes, he's popular as Apple's CEO, but more than that, what he did that caught the world was that he changed the world. I will forever love Apple products, I will forever praise Apple, I will forever study about Apple's products. Not because its cool, its expensive or its high end but because I've learned that in Simplicity there is Beauty. Apple's products is Simple yet elegant, high end yet personal, Expensive yet worth it.
More than anything else, Apple was founded by a creative genius. He did not graduate from college nor did he brag about being in any of the top universities in the world. He was a creative genius in his own right. Kudos to the undergrads, to the crazy ones, to Steve Jobs... who changed the world.
Whatever right the world may give him, what I feel about his passing will always be personal. Every time I see that bitten Apple, I will always remember how great he was. How great I can be. Thank you for making the world easier for people to communicate, for making your products easy to learn and easy to teach, for making the iPad for my senior citizen clients easy to use, for making the iPhone easy to sync so that my clients contacts will be just on one phone even if they travel in different countries, for making the iPod so colorful and so easy to use that all our songs can just be in one tiny machine, for making the Mac so elegant that it intimidates non Apple users, for adding the iLife applications so easy to learn that my clients are left dumbfounded. I have so many things to be thankful for but it all boils down to one, Thank you for changing My life.
To end, my favorite Apple commercial. Cheers, Steve, you did place a dent in the universe. :)
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