Steve Jobs and Apple
I don’t know if many of the readers of this blog have a Mac but I suspect that quite a few have an iPod or other Apple product. And whether you own an Apple product or not, Apple’s influence is likely present in something that you do have. Windows may dominate the PC desktop but the influence of Apple permeates consumer electronics. Windows itself has unmistakable borrowings from the Mac. Microsoft dominates by brute force; Apple influences with its attention to style and usability. And this characteristic of Apple, its trademark of stylishness and attention to detail, is said to be directly attributable to Steve Jobs. Few companies have their identity so tied to the CEO as Apple. Microsoft without Bill Gates just goes on being Microsoft; Apple without Steve Jobs is very much an unknown.
So it is that Steve Jobs’ health problems have been much in the news. For most people, personal health is a private matter not to be intruded upon by the public. But some people are too important to the affairs of others to keep serious health issues to themselves. We all need to know if the president of the United States is healthy. Steve Jobs is not in the same category as the US president but he is sufficiently important to the future of Apple (and consumer electronics in general) that his recent health problems and the future of Apple have been a source of intense speculation. I am not interested in morbid discussions of Jobs’ pancreatic cancer but I think it is worth looking at some links about what Jobs and Apple mean to the larger picture of things:
- Why Steve Jobs Is Bigger Than Bill Gates
- What If Steve Jobs Doesn’t Come Back to Work?
- Apple Can Still Thrive, Sans Jobs
- Jobs’ medical leave: right to privacy vs right to know
- Jobs Has Been an Extraordinary Spokesman
I do not know Steve Jobs personally but I wish him a full and speedy recovery.
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