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Rest in peace Mr. Jobs. You will be missed. He was a GIANT in the area of computers.

Mr. Jobs will be credited with re-inventing Apple after its low point over a decade ago when he invented the iMac. Later on with the Mac Mini, iPod, iTunes, and iPhone.

Don’t forget the iPad... Right now he is in iHeaven..

Rest in peace Mr. Jobs. You will be missed. He was a GIANT in the area of computers.

Mr. Jobs will be credited with re-inventing Apple after its low point over a decade ago when he invented the iMac. Later on with the Mac Mini, iPod, iTunes, and iPhone.

Not only a giant in computers, a giant in business as well. For a long time, the computer industry gave us what it thought we needed, and that was boring computers and interfaces, and they didn't feel the need to push ahead as much as they should have. Apple gave us what we wanted and what those of us who grew up on old pulp sci-fi novels thought we should have already had years ago. Along the way, they dragged the computer industry (and the phone industry) into rethinking a lot of things.

The thing that impressed me most about Jobs was his willingness to kill off projects that he didn't like. Many CEOs don't care about the crap their companies shovel out into the marketplace as long as it makes a profit. There were plenty of things Apple worked on over the years that could have made a profit that they either didn't release, or went back to the drawing boards until they (Jobs) were happy.

I was also impressed at how personally involved he was and how he ran Apple, and I'm not speaking just as somebody who made money off of Apple stock. There is a story, and there are different versions, about how Jobs would tell new Apple VPs that janitors were allowed to make excuses or have reasons why they couldn't do their job as they didn't have much control over their situation. If you were a VP on the other hand, you were completely responsible for what happened under you, because you had control over your situation and the means to fix problems. Ruthless? Sure, but how many of us have seen companies where the VPs kicked back and didn't sweat the details and blamed others for their problems.