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What Steve Jobs’ death means to me

Sorry for the somewhat morbid title, but I have had this thought on my mind since learning about the passing of Steve Jobs on Wednesday night.

For those living under a rock, Steve Jobs was a co-founder of Apple and was very instrumental in the resurrection of Apple. Now the people who have known me for a long time you will know I am not exactly an Apple Fanboy. In fact for a good amount of time I detested Apple and all Apple products. I used to cling to the idea that Apple products were under powered, over priced, overly simplified, heavily DRM’ed, etc. In many ways much of these issues still persist today with their products, but for some reason my perception has changed. I firmly believe it is due to the persistence of Steve Jobs to focus on User Experience above anything else.

Another reason I admire Steve Jobs is because he did something I have always wanted to do. He successfully ran several businesses; businesses that he loved. He combined passion with success, which can be a hard combination in today’s business world. Since his passing I have watched and intently listened to his Stanford Commencement Speech at least 5 times. If you haven’t watched it yet, I highly recommend it.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, RIP Steve Jobs