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Hi all,
I just want to share my feelings with you.
Yesterday morning at 5:30 AM my youngest brother called me from Hong Kong and told me that Steve Jobs is no more.
What a sad day.
The first computer I've ever used was a Macintosh LC475 in 1995. From that moment I never wanted to use anything else than a Mac.
Time passed by and in 1996, my wife and I brought a Macintosh Performa 630 in a pack with an Apple ColorWriter. This was the first Mac of a long list.
I've spend so much time on this computer, mainly on Claris software (Claris Works and Filemaker Pro) and Warcraft, that I've decided to create an online wine store (the web was starting) that was powered by Lasso and Filemaker.
The store was a failure but I decided to continue in the IT and I created a Mac Store (that I called Macinstore ;-) to distribute new and used Macintosh and all their related appliances. The iMac arrived at this moment and the store was a success.
During this period of time, I "met" Steve Jobs at the Paris Apple Expo (during 1 second "Hello Mr Jobs") and I saw him live during his Keynote. It was an exceptional moment helped by what I knew was the rebirth of Apple.
Later, I sold the shop and started a new professional life that is available on my Linked in profile. And during all this time it was on a Mac.
Even when I started to work on Microsoft CRM, it was on Mac...
From what I recall everybody always accounted me as an Hardcore Apple fanatic. The problem is that it isn't true at all!
The truth is that a never found another company/person sharing my vision of how things need to be done. Especially in the IT!
I'm not a technician but I'm a logical guy. Things must work, easily and without requesting more and more money. These things needs to do what they are made for with excellence. They don't need a list of 300000 functionalities but the 1000 I need.
These things need to be simple to use, not cheap. Functional scope needs to be large not Abyssal requesting me to pay thousands of Euro a consultant that is here not to create anything new but only to make the damn thing work!
When I've created iDcrm (www.numenes.com) in 2008, my goal was to provide the same kind of tool on the iPhone for Microsoft CRM.
The concept was:
- focus on the main functionality
- select the one the user really needs
- must be operational immediately
- must be beautiful
These principles are the ones I received from Apple and Steve.
These principles (an some others from the same source) should be applied by all companies. The world would be a better place.
The track of my professional life has been based on Apple tools or Apple/Steve philosophy. Right now I'm on my Mac to write these lines.
Even in my personal life Apple/Steve is present everywhere: my personal address is
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, I've an iPhone 4, a MacBook, an iPad, my wife an iPhone 3GS, a MacBook and an iPod Mini RED, even my son has an iPod Touch (and he's 4 years old). My media center is a Mac Mini (on a Samsung TV!).
My son doesn't say a mobile or a smartphone he says an iPhone. My musics and movies are in iTunes and mostly brought there. My father has a MacBook, my brother a MacBook Air.
We made our Wedding invitation on a Mac and printed them on a ColorWriter. The music of the wedding party was played by 2 iMacs (1 original and one Green).
Our family pictures are on iPhoto and we print every year a book from there. Even the first version of Numenes website was made in iWeb. I do my presentations in Keynotes and my personal informations are on Bento database.... Finally my favorite font is Helvetica.
I've spend the last 16 years working with, using, thinking about something related to Steve and Apple.
Steve has changed my life and will continue.
It's hard to think that there will be no more magic Keynotes from him, no more concept, no more products, no more.
I miss him already.
Jean Stanghellini
General Manager Numenes
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