The Mystic Ranger

I really didn’t think I’d write any­thing on this mat­ter. Every­body else (as is usual) had writ­ten a lot any­ways. Many of them are even remark­ably nice.
Another rea­son why I didn’t want to even, say any­thing, was because I wasn’t shocked. Every­body was shocked. I was prob­a­bly sad when I got to know of it, but not shocked. Every­body dies, don’t they? And he was prob­a­bly sup­posed to, since quite some time, any­ways. 56 is early for how much he lived, peo­ple say? I never found life worth mea­sur­ing by the years somebody’s lived. I can sadly say that I’ve almost com­pletely wasted my life so far. Except for this last year, to some extent. And he’d done quite a lot in his life any­ways, I believe.

And I wasn’t going to write even now, except when I thought about post­ing one of the numer­ous things I’ve writ­ten in so long a time but not posted, and saw my blog, and saw the last post to be announc­ing my own­er­ship of a mac­book. And I felt… weirdly overwhelmed.

He, a per­son so far away from me, influ­enced my life in such a sig­nif­i­cant, and uniquely last­ing man­ner. A major­ity of my friends have an opin­ion of a Mac, with­out hav­ing owned one. And I’m no fan­boy, but after hav­ing used my mac with reg­u­lar­ity, I have a vague feel­ing of that abstract notion — that Apple, makes beau­ti­ful prod­ucts. And even if he’s not the only one, he must’ve been an inte­gral part of Apple becom­ing what it is.

And noth­ing both­ered me, as think­ing how nobody else would’ve made OS X Lion what it is. And how, with almost annoy­ing fore­sight, he died right after every­thing has reached an almost unar­guable sat­u­ra­tion point. Why was there no iPhone 5? I believe, because there is really noth­ing right now, that can make the next iPhone, the iPhone 5. Like Hitler says in this video: “I want magic!” That is per­haps what was pulled off in every new iPhone, not that I kept track or remem­ber. And he pulled the Air up to (a poten­tially mag­i­cal) speed, beyond which lies only magic. And the same for the iPad. He’s really not left things to do, which make me feel annoyed, in a frus­trated elbows-and-knees kind of mood, if you get what I mean. What will Apple make next? Did he, before dying, leave a tiny note say­ing how OS X and the iOS are really going to meet? Because I think that’s the mag­i­cal future Apple is on the verge of cre­at­ing in a much more bril­liant man­ner than Win­dows 8 tries to forcibly push in on us. And what to release in the next WWDC, or iPhone event, because peo­ple are going to cry so much if they don’t. And. oh, the very worst would have been, if Jobs had died before appoint­ing a CEO instead of him. That, I believe, would have led to a spon­ta­neous col­lapse of Apple. Peo­ple didn’t like the appoint­ment of Tim Cook offi­cially by Jobs. I have no idea of the work cul­ture at Apple, but it would require unfath­omable sol­i­dar­ity I imag­ine, for Apple to have man­aged to sur­vive an in-office death of Jobs, due to lack of any per­son being able to be cho­sen to replace him. Imag­in­ing that, feels scary. And I feel happy that Jobs was awe­some enough to do all those things before he went away. I think it’s redun­dant to wish him to rest in peace. I am almost def­i­nitely sure he will. I hope Apple some­how, remains as won­der­ful as it was so far. The one com­pany, which felt less like a com­pany before this, and more like a maker. I own an Apple com­puter, a Mac, is some­thing a lot of peo­ple can say, with­out the imper­son­ation of their com­puter sound­ing weird. I own a Dell, def­i­nitely sounds pathetic.

So, I am happy that Jobs died this late, at least, and not ear­lier. And he’s def­i­nitely done more than enough awe­some in his life. Cool mem­o­ries he leaves behind for a lot of peo­ple. {awk­ward sign off which tries to say bye in an appro­pri­ate man­ner of not really know­ing the guy, but pre­tend­ing to.}