Steve Jobs: User Experience, Not Appliances

I was talking about the new iPhone 4S announced today with my wife and sons over dinner. I went to show my son the video on the new Siri app for the iPhone and saw Steve Job’s black and white image on the Apple site announcing his death – I clicked a few times not initially registering what it meant. Then a flurry of news alerts came on my iPhone and confirmed that he had passed.

We watched the CNN coverage and admittedly I got a little choked up. Cancer really sucks and touched my family’s life when my wife went through the whole process a little over 5 years ago.

I’ve long kept his famous Stanford commencement speech as well as the 1984 Macintosh Superbowl ad on my laptop, then iPhones.

Back in 1982-83, recently out of college and I walked into a computer store in suburban Chicago and bought an IBM PC Jr. I played around with it, but when visiting my boss’ house for a party, I saw his green screen adorned Apple PC.

In 1986 I walked into a Computerland Store on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, intent on buying a computer to start our appraisal business. I was going to buy an IBM PC. However I saw the new Macintosh Plus and was hooked. Visits to MacWorld trade shows in Boston, New York and San Fran with my pregnant wife or Dad were bigger than any holiday.

We built our businesses with Apple products.

I always figured that if you spend a large part of your working life working with a computer, why work with an appliance? PC = toaster. Mac = an experience.

Thanks Steve.

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Does anyone remember the year 2001 as it pertains to the history of Apple? 'Twas most momentous—a little product known as the iPod first hit the market, and it was at the time billed as a "breakthrough MP3 product that packs up to 1,000 CD-quality songs into an ultra-portable, 6.5 ounce design that fits in your pocket." The other important thing that happened for the company in 2001 was that CEO Steve Jobs applied for a demolition permit for the house he had lived in since the '80s, the historic Jackling House in Woodside, Calif. Ten years later, the preservationists have relented, permits have been granted, and demolition begins on the 17,250-square-foot Spanish Colonial Revival house this week. Jobs has plans to build a more modern (and modest) 4,910-square-foot house in its place. That's no comfort to certain folks at the National Trust for Historic Preservation; one went on the record and said, "Jobs does demolition because brains, billions and some Buddhism don’t buy wisdom or even basic respect for others." Burn!

· Apple Presents iPod [Apple]
· Demolition Begins on Steve Jobs's Woodside Mansion [Mercury News via UnBeige]
· Where Genius Sleeps: Blueprints For Steve Jobs's New Manse [Curbed National]

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