May you rest in peace, Steve Jobs.


I confess, I own no Apple products. No iPhone, iPad, iPod or iMac, no MacBook, Mac  Pro or Mac Mini. I am a PC and accept myself as such. I don't understand the frenzy that occurs each time a new Apple product is released. Perhaps I'm not much of a techie. However, that does not mean I don't recognize the brilliance of Steve Jobs and all he accomplished. Between Mr. Jobs and that Microsoft guy...what's his name? oh yeah, Bill Gates, the world has changed dramatically since I was a teenager in the 70s. My last semester of college (1985), I was offered a course in personal computing. I turned it down. Why in the world would I need to know anything about computers? Ha!  I remember life before the internet - message boards and chat rooms. I was a member of one of the first chat rooms in Oklahoma. It was very cool to "talk" to other people around the City in real time. Who knew Al Gore would later invent the internet? A marvel indeed. Thanks Al! What's that? You did not invent the internet? But I thought you said...well, never mind. Nevertheless, thanks to the world wide web, we now have our local television anchors disrupting programming with the 'breaking news' of a 3-car pile up on the Champs Elysees in Paris. You know, just in case your distant relative happened to be driving on that street on that day at that particular time. Fortunately, you can instant message them to make sure they were not involved in that mishap. It doesn't matter that they don't know who in the heck you are (5th cousin thrice removed). You know who they are courtesy of your Mom, who knows the entire lineage of both sides of your family, their email addresses and cell phone numbers. But I digress. 


So thanks, Mr. Jobs, for your foresight and for making the world a much more interesting place. Too bad the hypocrites taking part in the Occupy Wall Street "protest" hate you and others like you. I'd bet at least 50% of them own an iPhone or iPod and probably 99% of them own a computer and/or cell phone of some sort. Come to think of it, if it weren't for your line of products, as well as Mr. Gates' products and the various other cell phone and computer brands, plus the internet, no one would even know they were there. Or care.


- OT