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Thank You, Steve Jobs
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I had exactly two non-fictional childhood heroes: Jim Henson and Steve Jobs. Both died way too young, and both changed me forever in very different ways. When I was eight, I programmed a TRS-80 at night when no one was watching and dreamed of having an Apple II when I finally got to sleep.
Whatever anyone may think of Steve, he helped normal people connect as deeply with technology as even the most hard-core of us geeks. Without Steve, who the hell would "love" their phone, much less their computer? Very few of us, and we'd be pretty quiet about it.I never met Steve in person, but I came close. Here's the proudest 10sec of my career: Steve doing a quick demo of my Yahoo! Traffic Widget in his keynote at WWDC 2005 http://youtu.be/EXz9u2nVOIY?t=2m22sOSX Dashboard is of the many things in my career I thank Steve for. It legitimized the idea of making native apps, however small, with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. That along with the iPhone helped me make a big leap from "web developer and fixer of IE issues" back into application software development but with my new favorite web tools. And for the small leap I've made, the whole world has been introduced to a new universe of HTML5 possibilities. Steve and Apple have been a major force in that change, and dozens of others.I can't imagine how the void his passing will be filled, but if all of us who were affected by his total commitment and drive do our best to make great things, maybe we'll muddle through. Thank you, Steve, for being you.Dave Balmer, Jo Code Wrangler
