Uropi: Thank you Steve Jobs
The other day, opening Safari, I saw a big photo of Steve Jobs. I first thought of another ad for Apple and then I saw the 2 dates beneath the photo … the second one, 2011 … Oh my God !
I felt I was an orphan, I felt I had lost a friend, an older brother, a father… Without Steve Jobs, Uropi would be a lot of written notes scattered on copy-books and pads. I bought my first Mac in 1989: a small box with an external HD, but which could already work miracles. There was no cyrillic font, but with MacFont, you could draw your own cyrillic font and type in Russian, for example.
Thanks to Apple I got to know my GP who was a great McIntosh fan and a descendant of the illustrious family of the great linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. I could never use another PC where every simple thing seems unnecessarily complicated; on your Mac everything is user-friendly, as if you were a member of a big family. Every stage in the development of Uropi was marked by the acquisition of a new Mac. The first version of the Uropi handbook Vokem Uropi was typed in black and white on my old 1989 Mac; the latest one uses colours and photographs and you can visit the Uropi Exhibition on iPhoto, etc…
Thanks to Steve Jobs, we could all say, in all our different lives "Yes, we can!"
So long Steve, I hope you've found a better world.
J. Landais