Steve Jobs’s life will mark moments in each and everyone of us. He changed the way we communicate, the way we appreciated technology, the way we thought of design. He made many of us design junkies. He made us love simplicity and changed many life philosophies with the creation of a single button. He changed industries, revolutionized every single aspect of modern life. He taught us amazing lessons. He cared about the humans, and the human exprience. He didn’t care about customers, he just wanted us to suck on every beautiful icon of the Mac. He decided tha black and white will never go out of fashion and that limiting our choices of color was actually the classy thing to do. We can’t imagine the idea of a pink iPhone and we hope it will never come.
Everyone has a story or a couple of stories influenced by Steve Jobs and I am no exception. He taught us that nothing was impossible and that we shouldn’t be trapped in dogma. He revolutionized the way in which we communicate. He created a mobile device capabale of handling all the functionalities of a computer. He made it possible to broadcast an international IM for cheap. He gave me the iPhone and he have birth to the smartphone (even the G1) that made my last relationship possible. His invention kept me close to who I loved and made me part of every tiny bit of her life. Before that revolution it was impossible to be close to your loved one who was more than 4,000 km away. But he dreamt of a world where everyone was close enough, where distance wouldn’t matter, and we dreamed with him. We believed because he believed. I shared many times of joy through Facetime, enjoyed the Gamecenter games, chatted through Meebo, and shared an appstore account. He made it possible for me to be as close as technology could get me, which was a long way. He made me believe that whatever is the hurdle we find, there’s a way to overcome it and achieve true happiness. Even though that relationship is over, he made it possible. Even though he is gone I still keep with me his most valuable lesson: “Always remember that any dream can become true. You just need to be bold enough to make it happen”.
