Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
Just two weeks ago, Forbes Magazine ranked Apple as the world’s most highly valued company.
Money talks. You know the rest.
I don’t tend to buy a lot of rhetoric about corporations being visionary or revolutionary. Apple doesn’t make the fastest machines, or the cheapest. But under Steve Jobs, Apple made computers that non-techies could embrace, made it stunningly easy not just to consume content, but to create music, video, sound, blogs, and other forms of original media. Macs made personal computing accessible, inviting, and cool — to students, to dissidents, to grandmothers, to people outside the high priesthood of tech-dom. It changed the entire definition of what it meant to be “good with computers,” and who might place themselves in that category.
Technology itself is value-neutral. It’s who has access that makes all the difference.
Tess Gadwa,
Founder, Yes Exactly Web Design