Steve Jobs is not dead

Remember when we were all horrified when Obi Wan Kenobi was killed by Darth Vader? Well he only became more powerful. He was everywhere, omnipotent and ever present.

And now think about Steve Jobs. He created technology before we knew we even needed it. There was a time when a computer was loathsome. We couldn’t wait to leave it at work. Now we hold it and caress it. We name it, we love it and then stand in line for another one.

If that isn’t enough for immortality, there are the people. The people who didn’t know they could make posters, graphic novels and insane animations. Bands that had no idea how good they were until they used a Mac to edit the pieces together. And how many movies? Pictures? Songs? How much has rippled from that one garage? How many of you made out over an IPod mix? Yes, there’s a chance Steve Jobs helped you fall in love.

Jobs helped a lot of us fall in love with the company he co-founded in his parent’s garage. Now that takes guts, and the ability not to cower when someone asks you if your nuts. After the ugly split from Apple, he started another company, only to be bought up by the company from which he’d so unceremoniously parted. And then…and then he spends about a decade losing money on Pixar. What we’re getting here is that this guy doesn’t go away easy.

Right now my Iphone is on the table and I’m typing this on a Mac laptop. My boys are watching The Incredibles. A Pixar movie. Obi Wan can you hear me? It seems to me that Steve Jobs is anything but dead.