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Leaves behind legacy of transforming digital age
Apple Inc.’s (Cupertino, Calif.) founder and former ceo Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, reports The New York Times. He was 56.
Jobs, best known for co-founding Apple in the mid-1970s, led the transformation of personal computers and mobile devices during his career. Among his credits are the creation of the Apple computer, the iPod (launched in 2001), iPhone (2007) and iPad (2010).
In addition, Jobs served as ceo of Pixar Animation Studios, which produced hit animated movies, including “Toy Story” in 1995.
He took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s ceo before stepping down in August, when he turned over the position to Timothy Cook. Upon leaving, Jobs issued this statement: “I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s ceo, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”
Apple operates about 357 retail stores around the globe. Retailers continue to incorporate Apple technology as part of their digital marketing strategy. And as of this week, Apple released its latest product – the iPhone 4S, the fifth generation of the phone.
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The death of Steve Jobs is a huge blow to the technology industry and is echoing personally through the vast majority of the people I know. While we’re all feeling the loss in terms of the impact Steve has had on all the devices many of us have used for the last 20 years of our lives (#sentfrommyiphone is a simple, powerful tribute appended to many posts and tweets about his death), those of us in retail have another reason to celebrate Steve’s impact on our industry, and those of us in retail design even more so.
Steve Jobs didn’t just bring us the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad… he brought us the Apple Store, the most lauded, most cited, most imitated and one might even argue most influential retail store concept of the past decade. At last month’s IRDC conference in San Francisco, I jokingly suggested that I’d love to see a conference presentation that didn’t reference the Apple Store as the paragon of design, service, product display, fill-in-the-blank. And as adamantly as I believe that the adoration of the Apple Store is, at times, a little bit over the top, you simply can’t deny the profound way in which it changed how we think about shopping for technology.
And for those of us who live passionately at the intersection of technology and design, for all the accusations of fanboy status and all the times we had to struggle to get our computers connected to corporate networks, Apple products truly epitomized the fusion of form and function. I have never seen another brand that has consistently created beautiful, functional products that are simple and powerful to use.
I’ve had an off and on professional relationship with Apple for 18 years, since the multimedia company I founded in 1993 earned our coveted Apple Developer status, and I’m proud to have been associated with the company and to have had the opportunities to engage with Apple in its retail presence as well. Embrace or eschew the Macintosh, it’s a great company that creates some great products.
And Apple is for all of us on the “tech” side of things a constant reminder of how to get it right when it comes to new products. The day the iPad was launched, I went out and bought a Nook at Barnes & Noble. My thinking was “well, if it doesn’t play Flash and have all the features I want from my laptop, why do I want anything besides an e-reader?” Fast forward a year an a half and I can’t imagine my life without my iPad.
Steve Job’s didn’t just create products, he created categories. From the iPod to the MacBook Air to the iPhone to the iPad, Apple defined both the benchmark and the market. And while imitation by Samsung may not have been the sincerest form of flattery, it was Steve Job’s innovation with the iPad that let to the news that may get lost today: India will begin selling tablets for $22 to schools, bringing Steve’s vision of tablet computing to those who never could have dreamed of affording it until now.
Thank you, Steve, for the profound impact you’ve made on my personal life, my professional domain, and my industry. You’ll be sorely missed even as we all continue trying to live up to your legacy of technology innovation and design excellence.