When Steve Jobs passed away some days back,the whole world showed their love, regards and respect towards the genius artist.

And for someone like me who doesn’t even own a single Apple product (& infact is an Android user), even I shed a silent tear as a tribute. Some people even went a step forward to compare him to the likes of Einstein, Edison etc. But that’s a different story.

Another smaller section of the crowd analyzed the whole situation, made some rational comparisons and found out that actually Dennis Ritchie(the creator of C language) deserves more of such posthumous appreciation (& adulation, maybe) & that there’s no big difference between hard headed businessmen (like Bill Gates etc.) and Steve Jobs.

But I beg to differ.

In my humble opinion, Steve Jobs got this posthumous adulation because of the emotional connect he/his company/his products has made with the masses. Shahrukh Khan gets all the appreciation while the whole crew behind the scene has also worked equally(or maybe more) hard on a film. But SRK makes an emotional connect with the audience. We, humans are an emotional lot. A survey has found out that people often appreciate gifts more than hard cash(of the same denomination of the gift). Why? Aren’t we a rational lot of left brained humans who churn out formulas , punch numbers into spreadsheets, analyze and make ‘rational’ decisions? Probably not( to the extent we believe it to be)

Our right brain is equally strong & in most cases beautifully takes decisions in a snap of a second. The right side of the brain is holistic & can see the whole picture, can love, can spot creativity, can appreciate a piece of art, can make out the difference between a bad sunset picture & an awesome sunset picture. Our right brain is beautiful & together with the left brain decides the fate of any situation, reaction etc.

Our left brain often goes into a phase named “Decision paralysis” which occurs when it over-analyses any situation and goes into a complete spiral making itself numb and ineffective of taking a rational decision. Then it seeks help from the right portion. So together, the right & left make a beautiful combo called the brain. Neither can exist without the another.

Steve Jobs is often known as someone who was a perfectionist when it comes to art. While Bill Gates wanted all the computers to run on Windows OS, he was obviously looking for world domination. When Google launched Android, even they followed a similar path. Their OS was manufacturer neutral i.e. every manufacturer could use it on their hardware. Sounds uncannily similar to Microsoft’s strategy. But Apple didn’t compromise on the hardware. If you want iOS, you’ll have to buy a Mac product. Period. He was definitely not after world domination. All he wanted was to design a perfect piece of engineering marvel and gift it to the world. And that’s exactly what made an emotional connect with the audience.

Today, if we look at each & every celebrity & try to analyze on whose death, we would mourn the most, I’m sure we would have similar names on our minds. The ones who have gone out of their ways to make an emotional connect with us. Beautiful, isn’t it?