As you may know by now, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. Steve will go down in history as a man who revolutionized the world of personal computing, music, and digital content. He brought industrial design to the world of personal technology and made it as simple to consume content on his devices as clicking on a switch. It was not about the consumer always being right; it was about telling the consumer what being right is and leading the way.Steve Jobs is also leaving a great legacy in the world of games, making everyone into a gamer and enabling anyone to be a game developer.
Steve Jobs was a visionary. Forget the iPhone for a moment. Forget even the iPod. Steve Jobs was the man who successfully turned the world on to the idea of personal computing. Without his relentless pursuit of what he believed the future could hold, we wouldn't be anywhere close to living in the world of digital wonders we find ourselves in today. And that relentless pursuit of the future reshaped the way we interact with the world not once, but countless times. How many of us in 1975 could have imagined carrying a thousand songs in our pocket? Or that we'd be able to communicate with people by voice, text, and even video on something about the size of a wallet? The impacts he had on technology, entertainment, and even the gaming industry are larger than we can really put into words. Apple officials this evening confirmed that Steven Paul Jobs passed away today at the age of 56. Our world is a better place for having known him.
First, the Great East Coast Earthquake. And now, the Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple. What is creating the bigger tremors?Here in the Valley of the Geeks, it's the later. The sun shall rise again on Apple tomorrow morning, but the games business for Apple will be a-changing. . . regardless of what Steve Jobs does.