Rest In Peace...

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Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, unfortunately passed away yesterday. I only found out about it this morning, living in the UK and all, and already it's obvious the effect that this entrepreneur has had on the world, with statements about his death reeling in from US President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg; with the latter's being particularly touching; "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."

Jobs' battle with cancer had been well known for quite some time, and his resignation earlier this year indicated that he was in his last stretch before it would beat him. And he has changed the world with his passion and his ingenuity; for the younger generation, and especially people of my age, thinking back on how technology has progressed since we were children under Jobs' influence is pretty remarkable, even over short periods of time. There was a time when to listen to music, we'd carry around portable CD players. Then came the iPod, and since then this has developed to a place where we can't believe that we used to even carry around the original iPod with the new sleek and tiny gadgets that have since been released (seriously, go and find the old iPod and see how chunky it actually is).

A revolutionary of our time, Steve Jobs will be sorely missed.

Rest in Peace.