Thus mourned the Apple's site “1955-2011”! RIP! Agree! Every wannabe geek outwitting each other on Facebook trying to mourn the deepest way possible! RIP, we said! Agree..But someone said, “End of an era in innovation!!”...Err,WAIT, In a bid to sound cooler, havent we romaticized the Jobs saga to a dream which we so wanted badly!
Cut to the 90s and watch any Bollywood/kollywood/sandalwood(No, I dont mention Hollywood, because I havent seen them!) movies and you find a Hero, typically a brat, who is willing to bash up so many men stronger than him just to protect his love!! Ah, didnt i forget, so often than not, our hero, this dude is a college drop-out!! At around exactly one hour after the movie starts, he loses everything in life. Until, about an hour from here, its all melancholy! Till suddenly, that drop of blood drips from his forehead. Till the villian insults his mother. Till his girl is raped!! The man, comes back. Wins everything. Conquers your heart. Movie Super Hit!!
Isnt the Jobs saga too all about this? An arresting personality with extremely well documented powers of persuasion, possesing amazing amounts of eccentric energy, Jobs was the poster boy that the IT industry badly needed. It had got tired of the “soda-potti”[thick] glass adorned geeks strutting away endlessly on that Vi editor, the species in research labs who didnt understand why the sun rises in the west and whose speech always contained words like Amdalh's law,arrays, Hamilton's problem and ilk. Jobs was the man! He knew it,IT. He could speak to you. He could convince you! But to hail him as a visionary?? To credit the Apple product that you own to him?? For Barack Obama to say, that works become easier because of him?? For people to believe, dropping out of college is cool?
Pursue your dreams he says!! Duh.!! Boy, he was born in US!! You get paid shit good sums for the shit work that you do!! Is he even relevant in India? And chasing dreams reminds me of the countless girls who go to Bombay with Madhuri Dikshit in minds only to end up in Kamathipura and the guys in some garrage! Alas, not everyone who works in a garrage gets to head Apple one day.! In fact, a large measure of the adulation that he recieves, some says is because of his technical 'ingenuity'!! Crap!! I shall show you shit loads of better programmers in your next street. There are some others who call him a 'visionary'!! Err, Really? Is there any single invention which can be credited to him? Please, No Ipads and blah blah! Its a simple Tablet already come up by Microsoft years ago. Am appaled when someone says Ipad is an invention. If indeed that was an invention, what about the thousand papers which come out from the numerous labs where students work for pittance of money and out of sheer love of technology! Well, if you had to credit him. He was an amazing speaker. A person who was at the right time at the right place. An excellent orator that he was, he knew HOW TO SELL!! He was a pied piper! A piper who could make you dance to his tunes. Someone, who knew how to make a bride out of a donkey. An amazely good businessman!
“Stay hungy, Stay foolish!” Again fancy stuff!! Out of so many of the college drop outs how many end up as Steve Jobs! Infact, Steve Jobs as an icon is a creation of our ever lasting fantasy to take the easier route in life. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Dhirubhai Ambani possibly because of their rags to riches story are immortalised more than some of their peers like Michael Dell, Richard Stallman and the recent progidy Mark Zuckerberg! Infact, to me it sounds a dangerous precedent to glorify someone to these insane levels. Steve's incomplete dots formed the circle. Will yours?
Infact. It would be a huge disservice to the lakhs of Apple employees whose brains power those lovely machines on your palms. If at all there was something really great about Jobs, it has to be his oratarial skills.An immaculate businessman that he was, a little introspection from our side about the cult image that we have granted him would do no harm!!
P.S: Rip Steve Jobs!
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