Steve Jobs: the spirit of a genie

Innovation is what distinguishes the leaders from the followers. -Steve Jobs

Today's post could only be dedicated to Steve Jobs, the father of modern technology who died last 5th October at 56 years old.

This American entrepreneur had revolutionary ideas in the field of personal computers, mobile phones,

cinema and music that marked a before and an after for technology.

There is no doubt that Steve Jobs had the spirit of a genie, as he materialized the dreams and ideas he had to offer them to everyone else and make things a little easier.

His career started in the videogames company Atari, after having abandoned higher education. In this period of his life, of which we don't have many details, he converted to budhism and experimented with LSD -what, according to what he said, helped him being more creative-.

In 1976, Apple was created in a garage in California. Their founding members were Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Wozniak, that received the economic help of Mike Markkula. After a short time, the "Apple 1", the first computer of the company, was let out.

Around 1978, Jobs decided that he needed more partners and convinced John Sculley, who was working for Pepsi-Cola to join Apple. It was Sculley who, some years later, fired Steve Jobs from his own company. After this, Jobs created Next Computers, an enterprise of computers especially designed for professionals and the famous cinema firm Pixar. 

In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy Next and so Steve Jobs would be a part of his first business again. However, it wasn't until 2000 that he became the director again.

From this moment, Apple kept growing, strengthening its basis of aesthetics and functionality, and started to change the vision that people had about technology and information. 

Apart from the computers, Apple also designed the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad, the iTunes store... 

Last August, Jobs had to rennounce to his CEO position, due to a pancreas cancer, and ceded it to Tim Cook. Some hours after this announcement, Apple shares reduced by 5%. 

The shares dropped again last week due to the death of Steve Jobs and also to the announcement that the iPhone 4S would be released this year instead of the iPhone 5.

As I write on my MacBook, I realize that it's thanks to Steve Jobs, the man that changed the world with his energy and his intelligence. 

If he had been born a hundred, two hundred or three hundred years ago, Jobs would still have stood out, he would have created a different revolution, he would have invented the impossible. 

These are things that only a genie can do.

R.I.P Steve Jobs