Steve Jobs RIP

I thought the email was spam when it arrived in my inbox, but a quick check showed the story on news sites and on Apple fan sites and on Apple's own home page.

I've been a Machead since the late '80s, so there really can be no contest about what today's blip would be, no matter what else I might point the camera at. Just a quick snap of Apple's home page.

Sad news.

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A postscript. I was lucky enough to witness Steve in action at one of his legendary keynote presentations. It was in Paris, at the now-defunct Apple Expo, in September 2000, when Mac OS X was launched and all of us who were there came away with a copy of the Beta. Everything that's ever been said about keynote-Steve is accurate. His charisma, his infectious enthusiasm - it all made an unforgettable impression, and of course the style and panache of the presentations themselves set totally new standards in a world so sadly dominated by Powerpoint bullet points.