This is another one of those days where you will remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news. Steve Jobs, Founder/CEO of Apple, Inc. and game-changer extraordinaire, has left this earth.
We've lost yet another icon-another person who-because of his passion for the work he did, made the world we live in-a better place because he was a part of it. How many people will ever be able to stake that claim? Not many.
Of course it all started with Johann Gutenberg with his invention of the printing press and the first 200 bibles in 1455. Ben Franklin came along almost 300 years later and took that to the next level by publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729.
The Associated Press, the first big search engine, came along in 1845.
Philo T. Farnsworth's 1921 concept of the television was finally brought to fruition by David Sarnoff and Zworykin in 1939.
Okay, let me back up a minute. I didn't mean to go off on a tangent and give you all a history lesson. I just felt the need to express my gratitude and pay homage to this man who has been such an agent of change in the way we communicate and who has left such a legacy to this world.
I sheepishly admit that I still don't own an iPhone because I'm in love with my Android but, my MacBook Pro has changed my life. And I'm sure eventually, I'll succumb and at least try the iPhone out to see how it compares to my Droid, even if I do leave it in the store.
