Steve Jobs Death
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs, a husband, father, human being and California citizen, was a man with a vision that literally changed the world.
Jobs ended up serving as the revolutionary sociocultural bridge between Beatlemania and Applemania.
In the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs WAS The Beatles. His death is now sending shockwaves across the globe in exactly the same manner as when John Lennon died.
LEGEND is an overly-used word, which has been applied to all types of individuals, but I dare to say that Steve Jobs helped to redefine and clarify what a true legend is.
With his own mind and hands, Jobs created Apple, California's #1 global brand. He did it his way, on his own terms, and in his own time.
Californiality is the #1 California blog globally but, truth be told, it would never have existed without Steve Jobs, his ideas, his technology, his inspiration, and his encouragement.
Steve was one of the many voices who urged me to do a California blog instead of going with my international relations blog idea back in 2008.A highly creative entrepreneur, Steve Jobs spent much of himself developing products that were functional, beneficial and popular while helping to build a great international image for his home state of California.
Steve Jobs' induction into the California Hall of Fame was highly appropriate for a self-made man who earned his place in California history by his own bootstraps.
After being awarded hundreds of patents for his prolific inventions on a salary of only $1 per year as CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs took his small California corporation all the way to the top --- and that's where he left this earth, at #1.
Competitors have steadily propagated, promoted and perpetuated the propaganda that Apple is nothing without Steve Jobs directly controlling everything.
I can attest that it is simply not true.
He knew he wouldn't be around forever, so he set up his company with an appropriate plan and all the right people to make things happen in his absence.
Shareholders are justified in their confidence regarding Apple's future after the death of Steve Jobs.
What has Jobs himself said on the subject?
"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person. They are done by a team of people."
Definitively stated by the man himself, and his words live on.
STEVE JOBS 1955-2011
