How Steve Has United The World

Yesterday I tweeted:

@isutton: Jobs did what every leader in the world wanted: united all the people in the world, no matter their color or religion. #ThanksSteve

I really think he did it. Basically he changed the world into what we have today. I’m typing this text on a personal computer because Jobs pushed it forward, because he challenged the status quo. Look back and try to imagine a world where Jobs and Woz have given up when IBM didn’t want to buy their company?

If there’s such a reality, it’s certainly boring as hell.

As Apple’s “Think different” slogan stated:

[You can] disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

You can spend the rest of the day arguing that the only thing Jobs wanted was to sell expensive gadgets to people. That’s an opinion and I respect it.

But remember: Jobs had his first hundred million dollars in his early twenties. He didn’t work for money. He wanted to change the world, make a difference. And he did. Certainly, a picture is worth thousand words. I’ve found other pictures as well, showing how people cared about Jobs. He’s changed their lives. In the way they perceive perceive technology. The way they perceive the world. One thousand songs in your pocket. The internet in your hands.

He wanted a better world, where doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, your ethnicity, your gender, anything. The same iPhone Barack uses is the iPhone I use. The same iPad some random company’s CEO uses is what I use. We’re the same. No boundaries, no differences.

He wanted to make the difference. And he did.