Yesterday Steve Jobs lost his seven year battle with pancreatic cancer. Weather you are an apple cult member or a hater, there is no denying that Jobs touched pretty much every facet of the electronic market. He was a true visionary and an utterly brilliant man.

I think Gary Whitta has put it the best way on his Google + account;

People always say “It’s the 21st century, where’s my rocket ship?” You know what, it’s right there in your pocket, that thing you now just take for granted every day. Ten years ago, if I had described to you an iPhone it would have BLOWN YOUR FUCKING MIND, you would have refused to believe such a device would exist so soon in the future. But it does, as does the rest of the smartphone market, because Jobs willed it into existence. And changed the way we work, play, communicate, learn, basically do everything.

Steve Jobs held 317 different patents. He held patents for computers, monitors, equipment, he even held a patent for a staircase. There are few people that have changed almost literally everything around us. Think about what we were listening to music on before the iPod changed everything. Clunky, bulky, portable Discmans and hard to use, battery draining MP3 players. Hate all you want on the company, and on their practices, but Steve Jobs was a true technological genius.

He has created products that have been around me personally, almost all my life. I am not sure where I would be with out some form of Apple product to listen to my music or play movies for me. People really do not like Macs, I am not in the dark about that. I was among those people at one point. However, once I was able to sit down and use a Mac for a while, I learned how to love a Mac. If I ever buy another computer, it will undoubtebly be another Mac.

My wife lost her father at about the same age to the same form of cancer several years ago. Maybe that is why this touches a little closer to home. Either way, it is a sad day for everyone involved in technology. Will Apple be a viable company with Steve not a part of it? Probably. However, it will never be the same now that he is gone. You will be missed. Rest in peace.