Steve Jobs has died
A friend in Chicago and the Macintosh, the first one Apple made, are the reasons why I do the work I do, and not because computers are cool, or because some computers can be hip.
I got into this business in the late eighties and early nineties when Steve Jobs' company really did appear to be going away, and when aligning oneself with it and its products and its fine attention to detail to build things yourself seemed like a bad career choice.
The Macintosh was delightful. It was better, it was complete, and it didn't forget the details. That's what my friend, who was also a Macintosh user and who understood this, and that's what the Macintosh, made by Steve Jobs and his company and which I still have, meant to me.
I'm thinking of the handle on the top of the case on the Macintosh, and I'm smiling about it. Really great.
