iHeart my Mac

Opinion

October 11, 2011

iHeart my Mac

By Leslie N. Dees CNHI The Star Herald Tue Oct 11, 2011, 03:29 PM CDT

KOSCIUSKO — It was somewhere around 1998, when I first began using an Apple computer in the Communication Department’s computer lab at Mississippi State University and I was hooked.

It’s a designer’s computer. It’s hard to explain but the Macintosh computers just run better.

The software runs more efficiently and that’s why most all print media, electronic media and music production are done on Apple computers.

And the visionary at the heart of it all, Steve Jobs, has passed away after battling cancer for some time.

Jobs told us to “Think Different” with the bitten apple logo gleaming in rainbow colors.

And by using that Apple computer, I was able to do just that – “Think Different.” Design different. Imagine Different. You get my point.

He was a true visionary and the way that we use technology today was all because of his creations of devices including the iPhone, iTunes, iPad and the list goes on.

Apple was founded by Jobs with a high school friend, Steve Wozniak, in Job’s parents’ garage in 1976. He was forced out some 10 years later before returning to bring the company to its former glory in 1997.

In less than 24 hours since the reporting of his death, he has been compared to inventors such as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

It has been said of Jobs that he knew what the people wanted even before they did.

Here are what others said of Job:

– President Barack Obama – “Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.”

– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO:

“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”

–Bill Gates: “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.”

Leslie N. Dees is the managing editor of The Star-Herald.

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