By Sayoko Knight Teitelbaum
I woke up this morning in London to my alarm going off on my iPhone. I then proceeded to do what I usually do every morning and check my iPhone for emails. Usually, I check out my news apps, the NY Times or FT. This morning I went to Tweetdeck and that’s where I learned about the death of Steve Jobs.
I proceeded to spend the rest of my morning perusing through various news sites, blogs, etc. I watched and read Walt Mossberg’s thoughts. I watched slideshows on NY Times on how Steve impacted ordinary people’s lives. I went to Apple’s site and pondered if I send an email to rememberingsteve@apple.com. Instead, I thought I’d use this blogpost to share how Steve Jobs affected my life.
More than two years ago, my dear friend and former colleague came to me with an idea to start a business as a mobile app development platform. The premise was that we would develop tools, a solution, and a framework around organizing content and publishing that content to various mobile platforms. And I was hesitant. I was worried that the market was not ready for a solution like this.
Now, two years later, we have a company with an amazing product, brilliant team, and many customers using the platform to build apps, some of which have even been named iPad App of the Week. We’ve partnered with world-class brands to distribute their content across mobile and tablet devices. We work hard day in and day out to continue to innovate and provide the best products we can to our growing customer base.
Indirectly, Steve Jobs was certainly influential to me and to our business. Without his inventions, his drive, his success, we would not have a premise for Toura. He has shown us that if you build great products, people will want them. As part of his legacy, we will continue to do our part and distribute high quality products and content in the ecosystem he created. Thank you, Steve Jobs. RIP.
