RIP Steve Jobs

It only seems fitting really that I follow up my last blog with my little tribute to the co-founder of a pretty amazing fruit company (according to Forrest Gump).

I'm a late comer to the Mac revolution (?) only really having signed on when my (older - but don't tell her I said that) mother was threatening to buy a Mac laptop at the insistence of another of my siblings, and I warned her that I would no longer be able to perform as her IT specialist as I knew nothing about them.

Needless to say my septuagenarian mother ignored my dire predictions, purchased the aforementioned Mac and proceeded to make excellent headway with it. So the next time I went to visit, I had a play and became a convert. The only PC's in our house now are an old desktop that is useful if you need a bit more space to store things on, a couple of long dead laptops and my husband's current laptop which is about to be replaced with a MacBook of some description yet to be determined (he doesn't know about that yet, but after he commandeered my old iPhone and my iPad (necessitating the purchase of an iPad 2) - there's no way he's getting his grubby little mitts on my nice shiny new MacBook Air!)

As you can see, Mr Jobs has been quite the contributor to our household: at last count an iBook G4 that has definitely passed its use-by date, a 750Mb(approx) iPod shuffle, two G2 iPod Nanos, a G1 iPod touch and the latest gen iPod touch, two of the latest gen iPod Nanos, an iPhone 3G, an iPhone 4, a G1 iPad, an iPad 2 and the pride of the fleet - the MacBook Air. The only reason there's not another MacBook in the mix is that my mother bought it when I abandoned it for the Air.

There's not many people in the world that have the sort of impact on every day life as Steve Jobs and his little fruit company have done. Granted - I'm talking in a very commercial sense but impact they have. I believe that Apple's stock took a bit of a dive when they announced the iPhone 4s a couple of days ago instead of the much anticipated iPhone 5 - I can only imagine what this news will do to it. I can only hope that Apple can survive their leaders' passing and continue to pump out the game changing technology at a blinding rate.

I wish Steve Jobs family & friends my heartfelt condolences. I hope they take comfort from knowing how much life has changed for billions of people because of the man they knew and loved.