[Waldo]

To say that I've grown up with Apple products would be a bit of an understatement. I learned how to code on an Apple ][ while serving time in the principal's office of my elementary school. I would have been eight or nine at the time.

My mother broke the bank and bought me my very first Mac (the 512) for Christmas 1984. Years later I'd get one more Mac (Mac IIci) before going over to the dark side of Windows machines in the early 90s. I'd stay with PCs for 15+ years before I was forced to use a Macbook for my work in 2007.

At some time in 2003 I finally bought an iPod and have had a variety of iPods over the years until 2007 when I stood in line waiting for the first iPhone incarnation. It's the only Apple product I've ever returned. I wanted to love it, but it just didn't do everything I wanted at the time. It wasn't until January 2010 that I came back to iPhone with the 3GS and months later I upgraded to the iPhone 4.

Despite telling myself that I had no need for an iPad, I found myself awake early the morning it launched and stopped by the mall "just to see". Of course I walked out with one.

That's 31-32 years of using products envisioned by Steve Jobs. His legacy will be with us in ways obvious and subtle for decades to come.

My thoughts are with his family.