Thank you Steve...

These are my current companions...



and here are Olly and my sister with theirs in 2005.



Here's Dayna watching Podcasts on my iPod in 2005...



and again in 2010... this time on her own MacBook.



I've queued in the rain...



and have proudly worn the t-shirt.



My daughters only know Apple...



and their first phones were iPhones.



I can carry my whole record collection in my bag...



and Apple products have accompanied me to hospital.



I have spoken in my local Apple Store about my involvement in a new school of photography...



and I even used to have an Apple sticker on my work's Thinkpad before it blue-screened and died.

So when you ask me why I am sad today... maybe you'll understand.

This isn't a consumption thing... or a materialism thing... its a design thing... its a quality thing... its about wanting the best and being able to have the best.

Thank you Steve... your drive for the very best... your ability to think differently and make 'things' that mattered to me and to my family... 'things' that, I'm not ashamed to say, have changed my life... 'things' that have helped me... my wife... my we'ans... communicate, consume and create.

I never knew you but I have felt your influence... the tangibility of your pursuit of excellence in the 'things' you put your name on... ever since I got my Bondi Blue iMac back in the late nineties.

Thank you!

Tx