I'll simply repeat what I said over in the Jet Blast thread ....
The IT industry has just lost one of its best.
In an industry dominated by commoditisation, product feature-count and undelivered marketing promises, Jobs retained a hands-on, dogged focus on retaining product quality whilst continuing to push boundaries, both in terms of industrial design and product functionality.
In 1997 Apple was staring into the abyss, Jobs's turnaround of the company with the introduction of the "i" generation of products and OS X was an awe inspiring example of business mastery and team leadership.
RIP Jobs and Long Live Apple.