I sit here crying, feeling as though I have lost a dear friend. I have used Macs since 1993, and as a Mac fanatic, I wanted to know all about the men who started Apple.
Woz, I love you man. It couldn't have happened without you. Unfortunately, engineers like us rarely are good salesmen, so you needed Jobs. We all did. He brought your work to light, and others unappreciated work as well. He had vision that no one else had, to make it come to pass. Jobs, he did SO much over SO many years. The comeback rocked us all much more than the original triumph.
Truth be told, Apple paid Jobs and his crew to come in, take over, and save Apple back in '97. Apple would not be the company it is today without him. Apple fired it's daddy, and did he try and get revenge? No, he went and made two companies, came back to Apple, and pieces of both of those companies make Apple, and OS X what it is today. Entertainment, but given with an artist's eye toward beauty, color, design, sound, and video - the TOTAL user experience.
Mac fans such as myself will truly miss him. To many of us, we can't imagine the world ever being the same. The world has lost a visionary who impacted each and every one of us (computers nor phones nor music nor movies would be what they are today without him).
THANK YOU STEVE JOBS. MAY GOD CAUSE THE SON TO SHINE UPON YOU ETERNALLY. IN JESUS' NAME.
Sincerely,
Don Isbell, Jr.
