Argumentative essay steve jobs

On the 5th of Oktober 2011 I was sitting on the couch just risen from my sleep still yawning when the news came on like any other Wednesday morning. By the tone of the anchors voice I immediately woke up thinking a disaster had struck somewhere and there was breaking news. Steve Jobs, the famous CEO of Apple inc. had passed away due to pancreatic cancer. My family had always been quite a fan of Apple products and it was always a thrill to watch Job’s presentations so it was a slight dissapointment. After having made toast there were 3 more news headlines which all had the same tone of seriousness which reported this matter. It surprised me that this news was so big in the Netherlands. Once on the bike in the rain I passed the local kiosk with a whole rack of front pages having a Steve Jobs stare at me. With days and weeks passing I had also flicked passed a number of documentaries, minutes of silence and presentations of Jobs on TV but also apple stores with doorways blocked by flowers and candles. I even started doubting myself, was this man really that famouse, that influential and that important to the world that this was breaking world news.
When asking yourself why one grieves or moarns due to a death is often having a certain relationship with a person. Now, I doubt that all those crying on television, placing flowers by the apple store door and all those internet status posters with sad words. It surely isn’t possible that all those people have such a close relationship with this person. Then we ask ourselves, if we don’t really know him that well, was he actually so important as all the media claim. In an article by Cask J Thompson we already find that Jobs didn’t really invent a thing. After further extensive research we find a list of all things that Jobs had patented in his lifetime. The list consists of things such as ‘Lanyards’, ‘Clasps’, ‘Sleeves’, and ‘Packages. Its quite strange that all these documentaries put Jobs through as an inventor and