I'm an Apple person; always have been since 1990. Terrific design (another Jonathan?).

One of the greats for this generation - along with Gates.

I still don't quite get the amount of news coverage the story is getting today. Okay, it's significant but it's as if nothing else is relevant on the news channels.

Very few people can have made such an enormous contribution.

JK2006 wrote:
I'm an Apple person; always have been since 1990. Terrific design (another Jonathan?).

One of the greats for this generation - along with Gates.

I agree about Steve Jobs, but not so sure Garath Gates deserves so much praise. He only came second in Pop Idol!

I don't think everyone's life has been affected by Apple as much as is reported. Their products are great, however they are also much more expensive than the competition. I've never owned or worked on an apple computer. I've had an apple ipod (3 in-fact, the first two broke down after about 1 year). Apple didn't invent the mp3 player or the personnel stereo.

I've got much more products from LG (tv, oven, fridge, monitor,blu-ray player), however would there be as much coverage if the CEO of LG or Samsung had died.

And this from an ex-hippy—from a man who dated Joan Baez, who said his LSD experiences were some of the most important of his life. He was indeed the reformed counterculture kid, a child of San Francisco who became a child of a future of his own making—a prude (no porn on Apple devices!) and a square. The geek who would inherit the Earth.

But Jobs can’t be understood, indeed his influence is meaningless, without a grasp of his postmodernism. He was utterly a man of our age, right down to his demise—a vegan ascetic who lost a battle with gut cancer. This is the dramatic irony that mirrors the irony of his beautiful devices—works of elemental technological purity that force you to shop at one solitary digital storefront, no discounts for good customers and no forgiving late fees. Nothing, in other words, that resembles a human interface.

Steven Paul Jobs defines us. And the prevailing irony of his passing as that we cannot imagine what will come after him. He owned the future, a province we had ceded to him.

This is a really good article I think.

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2011-10-06-j...es-genius-dies-at-56