I read an article on the LA Times’s website about the recent passing of Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, and how much he revolutionized the world itself. According to Randy Lewis, Steve Jobs rescued the music industry from the near death state that it was in, and had given music lovers new freedom in finding music (Lewis, 2011). Since the record industry was already on life support, because of online music piracy and file sharing of free music, Steve Jobs was in many ways the savior that the industry desperately needed.
According to Robert Santelli, Executive Director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, said that Steve Jobs’ inventions of the iPod, iPad etc., have been just as important as the significance of the Sony Walkman and the Cassette (Lewis, 2011). I could not agree more, because Steve Jobs really made it fun to listen to and buy music again. There was a time when specific artists released an album, and I would really get excited when I could get it in different formats.
To be able to have music in multiple formats makes things so much easier to transfer from one form to another. Steve Jobs literally changed the way that we buy music and store it. Another interesting piece about the article that stood out, was about the impact of iTunes on the sales of single songs. In the first year of iTunes’s existence in 2003, digital downloads added up to 30 million. In the span of two years sales had skyrocketed to 1.2 billion song downloads, which is just insane to say the least in numbers alone.
I agree with many others that believe Steve Jobs was a true visionary who has single handedly transformed our world, and has created a fun music buying world again for all to enjoy (Lewis, 2011). I am sure that his passing with affect the world for many years to come, and I truly hope that his successor is just as passionate about humanity as his predecessor was.
Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-jobs-music-20111007,0,653159.story
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