Steve Jobs, The co-founder of Apple. As a business student and lover of technology, I admired Jobs for innovating and revolutionizing the technology world over the past decade, and revitalizing Apple. I have used several Apple products including the iMacs of the late 90s that looked colorful, which were horrible. Then Jobs comes along introduces a new line of portable players called the iPod and his new line of iMacs that looked slick and with a whole new interface.
The iPod revolutionized the way we listened to music. It introduced the mp3 player and eliminated the CD and Cassette Players. Over the years, they upgraded and changed the mp3 players into touch screen mp3/video player that did almost everything a computer does with the iPod Touch.
Along with the iPod, they introduced a new music service called iTunes. iTunes changed the way music was distributed. iTunes changed the distribution of music, before it was hard-copies of CDs (compact-disc). After the introduction of iTunes, CD sells dropped, consumers began to download music, it is cheaper, and they can download the tracks they want instead of the entire album. Along with music, they can download video, apps, and games.
A few years after the release of the iPod, Apple introduced the iPhone that again revolutionized the tech-world. The iPhone is a touch screen all-in-one phone and multimedia player that allows you to talk, browse the web, listen to music, watch videos, and now video-chat and do many other things with their collection of apps and features that they continue to add.
In the past year or 2, it revolutionized the tech-world again by introducing the iPad, which is a tablet that changing the world in many ways. The iPad is changing the publishing world by slowly eliminating the hard-copy magazines, books, and newspapers. Now, it is being introduced in schools and colleges as a way to get online books, take notes, and use it for many other educational purposes.
As for Apple’s business point of few, it positioned itself as a unique product that is based on quality, and it continues to provide top quality products. Every time Apple has a conference, people expect Jobs to be there and introduce a product. Even yesterdays conference, people were talking about Jobs for not being there and not the product. Now with Jobs gone, the new CEO has a big shoe to fill and will need to continue to provide quality products and hopefully new innovative products like Apple has been doing for the past decade.
Apple has been revolutionizing one industry at a time for over a decade, the music industry, mobile, and publishing industry, so what’s next?
Rest in Peace Steve Jobs, October 5.2011. The day the world lost an innovator. Thanks for your innovations.
