adhd ocd dba: We'll escape you Steve

We'll escape you Steve

As Steve Jobs resigns his office at Apple, perhaps the most appropriate send off is remembering another innovator/inventor who changed our lives, while we know that delivering on an acknowledged need isn't innovation.

In the row of Henry Ford:

'If I`d asked my customers what they wanted, they`d have said a faster horse.

If Jobs had asked you what you wanted in Y2K, what would you get told him? Could you have even imagined a MacBook, an iPhone, iPod or iTunes back in 1999?Can you guess where technology would be if Jobs had listened to simply the consumer, and ignored what he thought might be was possible?

Agile development may be the better option we've got, but if it has a shortcoming, it is this: consumer led design will forever be flawed as big a customer something they already know they need will never go to innovation.

Visionaries see both the motivation AND the solutions most of us never dreamed of.Steve Jobs was a visionary, and whether you like his imagination or not, his work can be felt throughout the technological world.I just trust that not all our best and brightest are spending their gifts on Facebook-y silliness and other marketing crap trying to get consumers to dawn on some annoying bit of advertising.We want more visionaries, and a lot less marketeers .... *

Thank you Mr. Jobs, get good and godspeed for all your future endeavors.

* on of the advantages of composition a very infrequent blog - you can say all sorts of things that might tick someone off :)