“Like many of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, I was having a fantastic day. It is crisp in the shade, warm in the sun. The skies are a magical blue with puffy clouds floating like dreams,” Om Malik writes for GigaOM. “And when all seemed to be going well, an email in my inbox — without as much as the new message sound: Letter from Steve Jobs.”
“It was as if the inbox was observing the solemnness of the occasion. It is an end of an era,” Malik writes. “The first thought that ran through my head was about Steve’s health, and I thought to myself that this cannot be good. I don’t care about him being the CEO or head of Apple. What I really do care about is his health. He wouldn’t be making this decision unless things were pretty dire.”
Malik writes, “It is incredibly hard for me to write right now. To me, like many of you, it is an incredibly emotional moment. I cannot look at Twitter, and through the mist in my eyes, I am having a tough time focusing on the screen of this computer. I cannot hear the sounds of the street or the ring of my phone. The second hand on my watch moves slowly, ever so slowly. I want to wake up and find that it was all a nightmare.”
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