Steve Jobs Dead at 56: What Did He Mean to You?

This is not a hyper local story.  But is. 

Creative people of all kinds just wouldn’t be quite so creative, without the existence of Apple and its computers, software and phones.

So there's at least a few of us, I'm guessing, in  Echo Park and Silver Lake who've been affected by Steve Jobs.

Jobs, the man who co-created Apple and took it back from hell in the early 21st century, passed away Wednesday from pancreatic cancer.

Read LAist’s obit here.

We all knew Jobs was sick.

Stevie Wonder,for making his products accessible to those with disabilities, was thinking about that too.

In the few minutes after Jobs’ death was announced, Twitter has been blowing up, with tweets like this, from Andy Carvin, the social media muse at National Public Radio:

@acarvin We all knew this was coming, sooner or later. I'm really surprised how shaken up I am about his death. But I grew up on all his creations.

Or this one from Fox’s @Elisabeth Espinosa:

Steve Jobs changed the way we listen to music #GameChanger #iconic

To this one from @Hipsterrunoff:

RIP Steve Jobs. Thank u 4 my Macbooky and my iPod shuffle.

And  this one from @bdoten:

iSad

[NPR, by the way, will likely air a special on Job’s life Thursday at 7 p.m. E.T.]

Jobs’s death is something we’ll all be processing for a while, I think, which leads me to ask:

What did Steve Jobs mean to you-–your work, your life? Tell us in comments.

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