The brilliant co-founder of Apple, was a clarity of thought and imagination that spread around the world

At one point in 80 years when I could choose my fellow Apple Mac users at any meeting with an accuracy of about 70%. In the early days, which were a kind - an unconventional, unstructured, non-technical and often on their own, so we expected a creative bent - and we noticed with the other members of the same species miraculous Butterfly in the desert.

No company or product that has dominated my life working as Apple and, until last Wednesday when Steve Jobs died of cancer at the age of 56 years, nobody in the world no longer influence on how organized by myself and made a living. It has never been a entrepreneur whose trial was more likely to trust someone I wish I had grabbed the hand and the water with the praise Steve Jobs, whatever his reputation as demanding an implacable master

bought my first Mac in 1986 and over the next 25 years have owned about 16 different Apple computers and laptops, as well as several Apple devices. In 1988 he created the

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magazine in a network of 20 Apple computers. I think it was the first time in Britain without a large system, which was considered suicidal.

But it worked and we were impressed with the way it has articles and drawings to each other and managed to produce a magazine of 50 odd pages each week, a feat that, of course, unthinkable to me the first PC, the mule prices Alan Michael Sugar Trading Company -. Amstrad

If blasting is because I've been a fan of the first. The Mac was the end of my life and at the same time, like all the original members of the sect, I have updated and replaced the computer in advance, the predominant emotion is one of gratitude for the life of Steve Jobs. On the podium of the digital revolution, which is a few inches clear of Microsoft, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google and Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, but probably up to Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web (actually prefer the word discovery, because now it seems almost impossible to believe that the web was not there waiting to be found). Perhaps the most important, but no one can deny that Jobs has contributed greatly to the sum of earthly pleasures and made life simpler and easier than anyone since Thomas Edison.

comparing the performance of a video camera or Japanese TV remote or the manual that comes with almost all Apple products, and you know what I mean. In fact, the iPhone does not even come with everything you might call a textbook, because he feels his way, or the children will find it for you. Jobs has tried to create exactly the computer or device you want for yourself and the desire informed almost everything he did. It's a good rule of life. Filmmakers, composers, publishers, book authors, gardeners, designers looking for their own satisfaction are more likely to please others.

He had a very clear mind, a rare combination of clarity and verbal techniques that have made the way it seems obvious and easy to communicate. At the heart of scientific and technical advances are outstanding acts of imagination that are as large as. In any artist

camera knew what he wanted and what I could do what he saw and felt what you want to use first prototype was produced. Think of Leonardo's notebooks. The use of solutions developed is characterized by physical and mental elegance too. He had a taste. For example, the use of Apple sources of the work or the graphical user interface - the familiar look of each screen of Apple - was superior to any computer interface and other was taken Microsoft has made universal

Last week, tens of millions of Chinese have signed page tribute to Steve Jobs, a torrent of feelings rare, containing perhaps a tribute to the land of freedom. A Chinese scholar named Wu Jiaxiang said. "The apple is the fruit of a tree in which branches are the thoughts and creations free, the roots of a constitutional government and democracy"

America is a place of nostalgia convention, where people are desperate to sign up and be enrolled in a large group, amorphous. Americans generally do not want to stand out, follow a different course or express an opinion that is not in the hands of millions of people.