Steve Jobs

Since everybody else is blogging, writing, or talking about Steve Jobs' death,  I will throw my own personal banter out about him.

To be first, foremost, and up front, I was not an Apple fanboy.  I own an iPod and that's it.  I don't own any Mac, iPhone, or iPad.  Nor do I plan on buying any of them anytime soon.  I didn't hate Apple either - I just never really saw the need for one of their products.  I don't get the whole tablet craze.  Yes, it's portable and easy to carry, but I don't see the practical side of them yet.  I'm sure that will come along in the future, but when Jobs released the iPad saying it would change the way we do computing, I wasn't agreeing completely yet.

Steve Jobs turned a small company into an empire.  He took existing technology and made it better.  Look at how many people use iTunes.  Look at how many own Smartphones.  But the one thing that Apple always did right was producing computers that were excellent at graphic arts and editing.  Why else would movies made by Pixar use Apple products to do their artwork and rendering?

Apple and the computer industry will move on without Steve Jobs.  There will be others that come along, but it will take time for one to be as influential to the industry as Steve Job was.