No surprise that SJ was not long for this world given his increasingly skeletal countenance... still, my 13 year old blurted out last night that he had passed and I did that double-take thing (that I find myself doing more and more whenever my 13 year old says just about anything).
Regardless of your position on his impact to the world, there's no denying the man was a genius on multiple levels. We are Apple consumers in this house. I have no qualms about using tech that feels good and works well. Though I do have qualms about the abusive quasi-slavery manufacturing trends in Asia (read up on Foxxconn sometime, your jaw will hit the floor). Regardless, those concerns aren't focused entirely on Apple, obviously.
I work for a large semiconductor company and we have HUGE business with Apple - our chips are in virtually all of their hardware. It will be very interesting to see what direction Apple takes now with TC at the helm. I must say that the iPhone 4S announcement, while interesting wrt the new features, better camera, and A5 proc, would have been received a lot better by the entirer world if they'd just done something as simple as changed the footprint... perhaps just given it a 4" screen. People wanted to see a different cool phone, not the exact same phone with a few more features. Oh well.
RIP Mr. Jobs!