'I' to 'i' - an icon - RIP Steve

The man who changed I to i is no more. RIP Steve Jobs.

My first look of an apple product was a screenshot of Macintosh's desktop about 16 years back. I used to work in a windows for workgroup. Then someone told me that Mac had all this and more and also that it was released a few years ago.

Over the next few years, while windows caught the craze of the world, mac restricted to the apple PC could not gain market share but had its own followers. Things changed, Time moved on and Steve was forced to move out of apple.

On his return, he changed apple from just being a computer company to a new age computer-consumer-communication giant. He changed the way people used to work at their computers. The way people listened to music. It was a revolution. Jogging became a pleasure with iPod. playlists, albums, rotarty controls became the norm. The once popular walkman was forgotten. Watching videos was changed.. videos became podcasts, to be downloaded and viewed. There were thousands of developers creating hundreds of new apps for iPod. Apple became an industry by itself. While industry and people were settling into iMac and iPod, Steve rewrote history. Enter the iPhone. Another revolution in communication. iPhone raised the bar on the mobile industry. While we were still in awe of the iPhone, apple introduced iPad. The tablet has had several starts and stops and could not create any impact. But iPad changed it all. These were the times that i used to wonder if apple was bringing in the right products at the right time or was Steve an inspirational leader able to sell more products to people. But then I realised it was a combination of several things but the main reason was the inspirational genius behind this.

The man changed the way we live.. from iMac, iPod, iPhone, IPad to iCloud. An iNSPIRATION to an entire industry.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. RIP Steve. the world will miss your inspiration.