I never knew who Steve Jobs was until I bought my first-ever personal computer in 1989.
Highly recommended by friends when I was still in New York then for an exchange professorship, I decided to get an Apple Macintosh Plus.
I was so impressed by its all new desktop system then with its easy pull down menu, point and click operation, controlled by a mouse.
Compared to the old DOS system in the old computers, the Apple Macintosh Plus proved to be a very user-friendly, sturdy, hardworking machine.
Along with a lot of other papers and documents I produced then, I was able to write the initial chapters of my first book on Old Testament Introduction on this Macintosh Plus, with much ease.
Then I heard about Steve Jobs, the head then of Apple Inc, who produced this kind of computer. I got so impressed with his very creative, imaginative style of technological savvy and leadership. He practically reinvented the computer at that time.
Then I also heard that he got ousted from the company he founded because these earlier computer units were not yet that so commercially- successful.
In short, the new products Steve Jobs had produced for the company were not yet that profitable. Those Macintosh computers, along with the other early Apple units, were eventually pulled out of the market.
Steve Job’s passion to create and innovate, and come up always with something new may not always be compatible with the corporate world’s need for assured profitability for everything that it would invest in.
Having an inventive, pioneering spirit, and an unquenchable hunger to come up with something new all the time, Steve Jobs was quite a risk taker.
But Steve Jobs persisted and never gave up. He believed in his dreams, in the power of creativity and imagination.
He lived out his passion for the new, and made life so much better for millions of users of all the highly efficient products he came up with, and who believed in what he has done and achieved.
He is one child of God who really used well his gifts for the betterment of life on this earth. We can only thank God for such a life well-lived.
Dr. Noriel C. Capulong
Banilad, Dumaguete City
