I may not have the best view on apple products but I certainly highly respect Jobs and his accomplishments.
May he rest in peace.

i love this

We have lost a very important part of the tech industry and the world today. RIP Steve. Good job Rei, very touching.

I couldn't have said it any better.

Very well done. Touching and well written. Best memorial for Steve Jobs that I've seen.

You inspired me to make a journal post about my feelings. I gave you credit for doing so in my journal post.

Excellent tribute.

I started using Apple machines when I was six or seven years old, and I've been a die-hard fan since I was eight. Computers helped me make some of the best friends I've ever had. He made the world a better place, and I can attest to that personally. Thanks, Steve.

This is so awesome. RIP Steve Jobs.

(Also, Rei in a tie, zomg!)

Rei always wears a tie when he's using a computer.
Computers demand respect! (they promise they'll remember when they take over the world... officially )

i feel bad cause i always hated macs but never really gave them a chance cause of all the macs we had at my collage sucked :/ but thanks steve for freeing most people from the windows monster

Would you pay such respects to Bill Gates too?

I most certainly will.

Then all's good. c:

And on the Third Day....

*BONG!*

(The sound of a Quadra 950 booting is very dramatic and fitting.)

Now this I would praise.. very neatly done

Goodness this was fast. It's good to see the guy personally touched a lot of us. as much as influencing a machine can do.

..and I, for one, DID take note of your font choice. WELL done!

Ah, yes. Every time I see 'Chicago' used, I immediately think, 'That was probably created on a Mac.' I did rather like the font.

Chicago's been forever etched in time as the Apple typeface.

Yay! I knew someone would notice. :)

And best part - I was an Amiga-Guy, not a Mac-Guy. (*SMILE*)

this^ I noticed the mac font also :P

'whose', not 'who's'. Nit-pick aside, I found some of Apple's concepts to be downright frustrating; I was used to using DOS 6 and Windows 3.1/95. The most annoying thing about the MacOS was the 'universal desktop', where dragging something from a disk onto the Desktop just created a shortcut to it, rather than making a copy. I really don't like OS X either, especially the dock.

I do have an iPod Shuffle, though, as my sole concession to an Apple product (because it was gifted to me, and it became so much better once third-party support for it in Linux became available).

Steve Jobs was indeed a visionary. I loved his casual style of dressing for his product launches -- he seemed trendy (which, I guess, is part of the charm of Apple's products) and friendly, and really believed in his products. I think I will miss him... just a bit.

This is honestly the most touching tribute I've seen to Steve thus far. I really know where you're coming from on this one. Thanks for putting my own feelings into art form.

On a lighter-hearted note, the kid-you is adorable.

Aren't I? I totally rocked the fag-tag tail back in the day.

Very nice, touching tribute.

Now he'll be inventing awesome stuff in the afterlife. My condolences.

Although i got an iPod Touch i never had the luck of having a Mac :(

I had an iPod Touch for the longest time. Definitely one of the coolest things Apple put out.

Well said.

Apple made pretty good products until recently when they focused way too much on making them stylish and hip, while staying a generation behind on power, with next gen's price tag. Suffice it to say i cut my computer teeth on MS-DOS, since most of my games didn't run in 3.1.

Well hope you pay this kind of respect to the othr Steve when he passes, because Apple'd still be a basement company if it weren't for his brilliant wizardry with integrated circuits.

This is really nice, and I'm pleased to see no one is really arguing about Apple vs it's competitors. R.I.P. Steve.

Yeah, I completely agree with everything stated here. Thank you very much for posting this.

I have no kind word to say here, but in the absence of a dislike button, here's my nonsensical comment.

Hey, everyone's entitled to their opinion. Sometimes I hate stripes too.

I have to correct myself, taking a second look at it.
The transition of technology and age from the top to the bottom is very well done.

I just don't like Apples. Now if it was pears...

This... this is good. Well done~

i keep coming back and reading this and each time it leaves me with a warm feeling. this is spot on what apple is about.

This is one of the best tributes i've seen to Steve Jobs

RIP Steve <3

This is Really nice. I also Grew up using a mac computer and always listening to that damn iPod while at school. Heh There was always plenty of mac books and desktops to go around for everyone. Some times I really enjoyed them. other times I just didnt care for them too much. I would never own a mac computer, but that doesnt mean they suck. Now ipods and the iphone is a different story lol.

Too bad that Dennis Ritchie dead a next later and he wasn't in the news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
-Shouta

Oh wow! I didn't even know. It's unfortunate when one great loss overshadows another.

Wait Steve Job's B day is Feb 24 o-o? Cuz if it is I share his birthday x.x

I think we all have stories like this. I built my first website on an old, original Macintosh, using a floppy disc to migrate it to a Mac Pro with ISDN connection to the local uni and using Telnet to upload it. Now I'm doing IT work for a living.

Everyone - everyone - was influenced by Steve in some way or another, whether they know it or not.