Why We'll Never Stop Talking About Steve Jobs

One year on from Steve Jobs's death, Mat Honan examines his enduring significance in how we talk about technology:

We are actually in the early cycles of Talking About Steve. The next phase is analyzing how things have changed since he died. We’ll trot out his corpse and ask it if it would have released iOS 6 or approved of the iPad Mini, or why Messages keeps sending chats to my phone when I want them on my desktop. That’s already happening, but it is going to accelerate as we get further and further away from his leadership, and with every misstep that Apple makes. It is a lazy and inevitable argument that’s going to be made again and again. The contrarian takes won’t stop, either — the Steve Jobs-wasn’t-so-great stories, every word of which, and every ad sold on every page carrying that message, will reinforce the fact that, yes, he was. Otherwise, why are you still jabbering on about him?

The Atlantic collects tributes to Jobs, including the video published to Apple's homepage yesterday. Here's the post I wrote a year ago on this blog.

(Image: Simon Lutrin, via Wired)