Thank you Steve Jobs. Thank You.
Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple Computers, or more commonly Apple, the company that invented things like the iPod, iPad and Mac computers has died at the age of 56 due to cancer.
Jobs has had a long battle with the disease, taking two separate leave of absences from the company, one in 2004 and one in 2009 to undergo a liver transplant.
Without many of Apple’s inventions and indirectly or directly, Jobs, my life would be different and I’m not so sure that it would be different in a way that is totally positive. So for these things, I want to say thanks.
I want to thank you for giving the world the iPod, now I can take all 8593 songs that I have everywhere I go and I don’t have to worry about someone stealing CDs out of my car. Thank you for the partner product iTunes because I love making mixes that go with the seasons or with a current mood that I’m in.
Thank you for giving the world the iPhone. Now we can all be adept at playing “Angry Birds” and being on Twitter, Facebook and Google constantly.
Thank you for helping to develop the personal computer, for without it I would not be writing or probably on the same career path that I currently am.
Thank you for the iPad, although nobody really knows what to do with it yet.
Thank you for the lowercase “i.” The lord knows how many jokes I’ve made by adding it to a word at the right moment. Priceless entertainment for everyone around.
Most of all, however, thank you for not selling out and being a humanitarian when other companies and industries gave their soul to the metaphorical devil and tried their darndest to squeeze every penny out of every American they could.
I only now wish that you would have invented the time machine so I could go back to 1972 and invest in your company.
Goodbye, and once again thanks. While we never met, you’ve changed my life and millions of others you’ve never met and millions more that aren’t born yet.
