A Tribute !!!

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma"

Its all of a certain when you hear Steve Jobs resigned and delegated the position to Tim Cook. Where would be Apple heading now ? Now Steve no more a CEO who's gonna take the innovative decisions and introducing the gadgets and gizmos that has the ability to change the world. The latest iPhone 4 launched by Apple has almost all the features that one can expect from a Smartphone. That what Steve has introduced it to the world.

Oct 5th night, Apple.com posted a black and white photo of Mr. Steve Jobs with Title Mr. Jobs (1955 - 2011) and within minutes Internet was ablaze with reflections of Job's untimely death due to Pancreatic cancer. Was Apple ready for this, or, were we ready for this untimely euphemism ? Oct 4th it was the release of iPhone 4S. Which stood tremendous amongst all Apple products. Many quote it as iPhone 4 Steve. May be Yes. I quote it as the same. But was it worth it. I haven't met Steve personally so do many of us. But still the tear flows if you really know the history of Macman. For many of us he is a role model.

Born to Muslim father and Jewish mother later was adopted by a Christian couple. He came to India and returned as a Buddhist. Was dropped from college after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at college while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. In his keynote in Stanford Jobs said "If had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
Jobs once travelled to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a college friend in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back as a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. Jobs draft it as one of the two or three most important things that he has done in the life visiting India.

I just wanted to brief something about Jobs coz the list is endless and putting everything here is nearly impossible. But can't withhold to post some of his awesome quotes -

On Computers -
"It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”"

On Design -
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

On Sales -
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"

On Character -
"I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building."

On Good Design -
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

On His Outlook
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

On Death
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

If you have Apple product you know what Apple has lost. I have been using Mac since years and every aspect of it reflects the hard work Steve team has done.
A man who leaves behind the biggest company in the world has lived his life to the fullest and has given world a different set of view and expectations. A dream that nurtured in his mind has made change in Computer Technology, Music and Animation.

The above pic by xkcd exemplifies tribute to Steve. Times we keep on watching that ball on our screen when an application is stuck. We expect the ball will disappear and the application will start running again. Hope the beachball drops off and the Application Steve Jobs start running again :( But its not.