I send my condolences to his family and his friends, his co-workers and his cooperative/competitive friendly rivals, who knew him.

This is not the best effort by the NMA-TV team, but credible considering the shocking suddenness of
Steve Job’s death.  The reason, many other news outlets were able to roll major paeans for Jobs was that they had
prepared their obituaries in advanced.  They have them on file for all important and famous people.  And for you
celebrity worshipers, no…being famous is rarely being important.  This started long ago, with newspapers, on a slow day everyone would write obituaries, the editors would pick out the best and file them away for when needed.

Today, our society is beset by the mediocre run of CEO’s and the cancer of corporate management bureaucrats whose lack of leadership skills have run capitalism into the ditch. 

Steve Job’s desreves to be considered the paragon of excellence in executive skills and a trailblazer of the global digital future.  He suffered through his failures, then learned from his mistakes and built upon his strength of character.  Among every other accomplishment, he leaves behind a corporate powerhouse, a community of strong individuals, encouraged by his example to share the vision. 

It is unfortunate for the rest of us, that the scuttling beetles running the rest of the Wall Street casino, have such a strong instinctive loathing of excellence, imagination, inventiveness, civic virtue, and social responsibility.
When historians look back at this period, I suspect they will point to Jobs and Apple as the focal point of a global seachange in human affairs.  When billions of people obtained access to information and knowledge, long denied them by the technocratic priests and their flaming tantrums over the erosion of their monopoly of technology.

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For fairness’ sake, Jobs is probably one of the best promoters/ salesmen of the century. He could convince millions to pay premium prices for mediocre products, and the keep buying the updated versions. He and i-products exude such charisma enough to cause fans (cult followers) to camp outside the apple stores for the newest i-thing.

That said, I heard this tech giant was not the most charitable nor even-tempered person. I am not qualified to judge if someone deserves to go to heaven. But I guess making billions out of stylish gadgets does not automatically make you deserving of paradise.

Somehow, even in Heaven – I got to think Steve Jobs is saying “Can’t we make this more elegant?” 

Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord: and let light perpetual shine upon them

We’ll miss you Steve…