The genius behind Apple, Steve Jobs, steps down

Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Steve Jobs steps down

Two and a Half Men will go on with out Charlie Sheen, but what happens to Apple without Steve Jobs?

He’ll stay on as chairman, but for Apple worshippers, and that’s what they are, life just got a little more scary.

I am a PC person, my working life just evolved that way, but I will admit to being envious of the Apple tribe.

While I spent countless hours on help lines or searching the Microsoft knowledge base for some obscure printer driver, my Apple friends could just wiggle their fingers at the screen and create an impressionist painting.

I was kind of proud of myself for learning to troubleshoot computer crashes, but then I would see technophobic friends with no clue how a computer actually worked tap their iPhone, and in 10 minutes, a half-price pizza shows up.

It’s true PC people like me tend to sneer at Apple people because Apple people are so sanctimonious; they see themselves as kind of a chosen race. But what really troubles us is that they might be right.

I have a PC tablet which was designed to mimic the iPad, but it’s like having a computer with arthritis. I would never show it off to a friend.

People with Apples are ALWAYS showing them to their friends. Downloading a movie, finger picking an on-screen banjo, adopting a pet, mapping every place they’ve been for the past month.

Touch, pinch, sweep, voila… and it doesn’t just work, it dances. Effortlessly. And that’s because of Steve Jobs.

A PC is a computer, but an Apple…is a companion. Engineering in the service of Art.

And so I tip my hat to you, sir. And I do it realizing that if I just had an iPhone, I could’ve used the hat tip app.