I was gutted to hear the news that Steve Jobs died today. He has massively influenced my work, my career and my life, like he has done with most people in my line of work.

I wanted to share a fond memory of mine, which can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. Just a few weeks ago my family visited and I gave my Grandfather (AKA Baggy) my iPad to have a look at. Baggy is a complete technophobe, if I asked him to send a text he probably wouldn’t know that he’d do that on his mobile phone and yet he could use the iPad right away. Within a matter of minutes he was watching videos of cats doing stupid things on YouTube, flicking pages around, navigating through the related videos and finding old TV recordings of country songs he used to listen to as a young man. Steve Jobs not only bought technology forward in leaps and bounds but he made it accessible to everyone. It’s a tragedy that he was taken away so young.

I had hoped to one day watch Steve Jobs give another Apple keynote with my geeky unborn child, obviously that will now not happen but I will teach him or her about Steve and how much he has contributed to everyday life. Just imagine where we’d be if he had never come around.