By now we've all heard that Steve Jobs has passed away, finally succumbing to the pancreatic cancer he fought for seven years. The man who co-founded Apple Computers and brought us the ubiquitous iPhone has gone to meet the programmer in the sky, his vision and company living on. His inventions have had amazing impacts during his lifetime, and will no doubt continue to spiral outwards in the future.
The iPod, just to take one tiny invention with an enormous impact, has revolutionized the entire music industry. MP3s are now the dominant form of music; a device half the size of a pack of cigarettes can hold an entire room's worth of record albums. With higher quality sound. And still have room for a TV show or two. I have a friend who has a side business as a DJ. The iPod Classic has completely revolutionized his business - rather than showing up to a gig with four milk crates full of CDs, he shows up with two iPod Classics (two is one) and a sound board (speakers are a constant).
If someone comes up and asks for a song he doesn't have, he can call up iTunes on his iPhone, order the song, and have it come up next in the rotation. Filling a request is as simple as a quick search on the second iPod while the first plays the current song. He keeps all his songs on a master list on his home computer, so that he can move his entire collection to a new device overnight. The savings on his back alone are amazing...
Let's hope that Steve's vision will continue even as he goes to his final reward.
Rest in Peace, Steve Jobs.
That is all.
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I noticed something similer when we got married last year. The DJ had a couple iPods (I didn't get a close look and dont' know them off the top of my head), and the soundboard/speaker setup. I thought that was an awesome way to do it. They're family of my husband and husband said they'd spent days loading all their cd's into the office computers but that it was totally worth it.
It is sad that someone so young dies, and someone who had accomplished so much. He created a company that is worth more than about any other in terms of its capitalization -- an amazing accomplishment in itself, but he changed how people listen to music and even how they interact with technology. R.I.P. indeed.
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