Steve Jobs

It’s one of those moments that I will always remember where I was when I heard the news.
I was at the bar of a restaurant called Dos Caminos on Hudson Street in Manhattan waiting for the Yahoo! B2B Marketing team covering Advertising Week to arrive for dinner. A waiter ordering drinks from the bartender stopped, pulled out his iPhone and looked at the screen. “Oh my God!” he exclaimed. “Steve Jobs has died.” Everyone at the bar paused, looked wide-eyed at one another, and immediately pulled out their own devices.
A friend of mine once said glowingly of the iPhone, “It’s like having an antique picture frame in your pocket.” How apt that image seems today.

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