Comments on: An Open Letter to Steve Jobs

By: Astrid Lund

Astrid Lund — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:37:09 +0000

I was exactly the same! I had those experiences on the iMac, dark blue. We still have it, and it still works.
Proof how ace Apple is.

By: Livi Flynn

Livi Flynn — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:26:31 +0000

Another parallel growing up story here, this time in Ireland. My Dad works in the computer centre in our city’s university and used to bring home computers they no longer needed, and that was how at eight years old I got my first Mac.. It was one of those awesome boxy ones with the big old floppy disk drive in the front. I loved that machine, it had a wicked little programme (a forerunner to the Apps we now know, for all intents and purposes) that gave random Simpsons quotes when you clicked on Homer’s face on the desktop. A few years passed and I inhereted a blue iMac. I put dolphin stickers on it. It was my first experience of chatrooms (perhaps not a great thing but you take the good with the bad). I got a green iPod mini for my 15th birthday, a white iPod classic for my 18th, a MacBook for my 19th/starting university, and last month I bought my sister’s old iPhone 3G (the economic times, they are a-changing). These products have never failed me beyond a simple basic solution found within minutes online. We are a Mac family. Thank you Steve Jobs for allowing the diaspora of my clan keep in contact, from New York to Ireland to the French Alps.

By: Elisenda Llinares

Elisenda Llinares — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:37:15 +0000

Hi, you know what’s really sweet? I’m from Brazil, but somehow I could have written that exactly same letter. I grew up with Apple computers because my father is an illustrator. In my school while everyone had a 486 PC, I was using a Macintosh. Kids used to look at me weird like “what the hell is that?”. I have never owned a PC. My father bought his first Apple computer when I was 5 (I’m 28 now). I don’t even understand how my dad came across an Apple computer in the 80s in freaking Brazil!! Really, having a Mac here is still considered “weird”. It’s for the advertising and design folks. Most of the people I know didn’t even know what Apple was until Mr. Jobs came up with the iPod! Not that long ago! I still get into PC x Mac battles. I love when that happens. I will always have something to say if someone is undecided between getting one or the other. Oh well, what I mean to say is I’m very thankful for Steve Jobs’ work. “Looking back it’s easy to connect the dots.” May Apple continue to be this tour de force in technology and design. May Steve’s work outlive him for generations to come. He’ll be missed. And YES! LEMMINGS!

By: Maria Jose Araya

Maria Jose Araya — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:54:58 +0000

Oregon Trail was a staple of my childhood. Learned what “diphtheria” was because of Oregon Trail. Thank you for everything, Mr. Jobs.

By: Jenn Kriscunas

Jenn Kriscunas — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:24:02 +0000

Very sweet.
And YES, Kid Pix rocked my WORLD.

By: Jodi Styner

Jodi Styner — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:36:14 +0000

In Steve Jobs’ words: stay hungry, stay foolish and always follow your curiosity and intuition because we’re all going to die, so we’ve got nothing to lose.

By: Carbón DeCeti

Carbón DeCeti — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:28:11 +0000

Oh man, I remember my centrus growing up. Those things were boss. I learned to interface with computers on mine as well.

By: Didit Miftahul Rodiya

Didit Miftahul Rodiya — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:27:45 +0000

Very very very appreciate!!!