I don't know whether you felt deeply sad as me when your idol John Lennon died on December 8, 1980. Maybe you were busy to develop the Macintosh, maybe you were busy to change the world. But you know what? You completely change my entire life, you also change the whole generation, our generation. In 2003 I didn't know why I need to go to college, until I watched your Macworld keynote, I was shocked by your presentation, your speech, and your charisma. Those days Apple's product is completely strange to me. iPod, iMac, and iTunes, you completely change the entire PC, music, movie, and mobile industry. You also change my life direction, just like you said, everything you learn is a dot, and then each dot will connect and become a line.
After that event I started to search all the information about Apple, Chinese, English, books, videos, images from internet. I know how you founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976, how Apple II created the PC industry, and how Macintosh changed the world again. I also know how cruelly you got fired by your own company, and your lost 10 years life. But your story just like movie trilogy; you came back to Apple just like hero in 1997, you secured Apple not to be bankrupt, and next chapter is the story everybody know; iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple become the most valuable technology company in the world.
I was lucky before I came to U.S. I got a job in Apple Inc. Taiwan branch, this year I also got a job interview from Apple Store in Chicago, I feel I'm getting close to my dream, step by step. But on October 5th, 2011 I got the message said you just passed away... I was shocked, you just showed up during WWDC in June, didn't you? It just happened so fast, although we all know you have cancer and need to take a rest, you really gone... There will be no other Steve Jobs, but we all learned from you, we will follow our heart to do what we want to do, we won't settle, and we'll always remember that your vision and your inspiring story. Thank you Steve, I will miss you immensely.
