One More Thing…

For me it is definitely not touching because I am emotionally involved with Apple products. I tend to rant against them all the time, and I just bought a Galaxy Tab. I most like Jobs for his inspiring Stanford Speech. Yet hearing the news made me feel awful.<p>There are all sorts of aspects of the story, though. For one thing, it is a genius who is clearly extremely passionate about his work, and who has a lot of money, but he still has to yield to the disease. That is tragic.<p>Also, while I don't like Apple, I still like Jobs philosophy, and the pressure they put on other companies to improve their products.<p>I only wish Apple wouldn't be so silly with patents, they really taint my admiration for Jobs.<p>Think about it - patents are land claims in the sphere of ideas. We cheer about the innovations, but essentially it is like native Americans cheering on the colonists when they took away their land. I am surprised that for all his desire for aesthetics, Jobs was not bothered by the ugliness of patents. Just mentioning it, because I could admire him more without that elephant in the room.

This is the techcrunch I like. A warm and moving piece about a man who revolutionized the consumer electronics space. Not a piece with sensationalist issues. A piece of substance.<p>I have an emotional connection with Steve jobs. I admit that my first computer that I had an emotional attachment was an Apple II. I admit that the Macintosh computer brought me where I was today. Without a mac I wouldn't have created my android app, learned the scheme programming language, gone to HN, to Reddit, to slashdot. If there is any person I owe a consumer debt to it is this man. I can't even write this without crying.

"We know the iOS 5 is coming, and very likely alongside the iPhone 5. There will also likely be a cheaper “iPhone 4S”, perhaps sold contract-free. Apple will also undoubtedly refresh the iPod lineup as they always do around this time. And there is talk of the company having some tricks up their sleeves when it comes to new content for iTunes."<p>Notice a conspicuous absence from this list? A revamped, much better Apple TV. As he says, Jobs' two biggest successes was to break the monopolies in music and cell phones (the latter thought to be impossible to do just few years ago). One thing he (or Google or anyone else for that matter) couldn't do is to break the cable TV stronghold form the leech-like grip of the likes of Comcast.<p>So, maybe the mindblowing thing this fall will be something like that. Would be super. I doubt it.

"Yesterday, TechCrunch saw record traffic thanks to a few stories on Jobs." ... so here's another one.

This was the only article I read about Steve leaving Apple. It says it all and had me on the edge of my seat...a bit. One of the best articles on Techcrunch in a while.

The fawning tone of the piece is a bit off-putting. It is significant to consumer tech that he's stepping down as CEO but not to the vast majority of the world.

Moving towards a world where having contact with at least one Apple product per day is the norm? Pfft. Nice article other than that weirdly my-social-circle-centric line.