Feed: sizeof(cat)
Title: Steve Jobs and me
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:01:06 +0000
Link: http://sizeof.cat/bookmark/steve-jobs-and-me/
 
 
  The weird thing is that at just about the moment that, unbeknownst to us, Jobs
  died, I was discussing this elusive mystery over dinner with an ex-girlfriend.
  We were talking about our antiquated iBooks. How we probably had the two 
  oldest iBooks currently in use in America, vintage 2004, and yet despite the 
  ridicule, sneering and virtual bullying we got over their condition, we didn’t
  want to give them up because we venerated them somehow.
 
  […]
 
  We talked about Jobs’ uncanny ability to build something beautiful and useful 
  that lasted. Some people can do two of those three. He hit for the circuit. 
  For me, keeping the old model is not about the look, but about faithfulness 
  and not wanting to discard something you’ve grown close to. The way you can 
  learn to love a machine like a living being.
 
  […]
 
  Bon Voyage Steve, you really did change the world. Ron Rosenbaum
 

