Mac Community Rocked By Steve Jobs’ Death

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When any community loses someone as integral to its existence and identity as Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was to the Mac community, it takes a long time to get past the surreal early stages of mourning and to move on.  Jobs died one month ago yesterday at age 56.  He left the world too young, succumbing to a rare form of pancreatic cancer and complications from its treatment — and possibly the delay of conventional treatment — over the last seven years.  People in the Mac user community were hit hard by the news, and people all around the world have experienced a profound sense of loss.  

Since Walter Isaacson’s biography entitled Steve Jobs was released, it has been at the top of the best-seller charts in the United States. News of the book’s early success has been reported on directtv.  Clearly, the death of this tech icon affects not only those within the Mac community, but people outside  that circle as well.  Steve Jobs brought people together, it was one of his gifts.  He was a visionary, and a perfectionist.  An innovator, and an artist.  For those readers here who consider themselves part of the Mac community, here is an infographic highlighting the biggest achievements of Steve Jobs in a timeline that begins the day he was born in 1955, and ends on the day of his death — October 5, 2011.