Well it's a few hours late here in Beijing time, but it's the right time in your own time zone - February 24th. It marks the Steve Jobs' 52nd birthday.

So, just cut to the chase. To the great Steve, here is my most sincere wish: Happy 52th Birthday! You know 52 years ago you came to this human world and demonstrated why it was no longer the same. You have changed the world around us so much, since the Mac in 1984 and the iPod in 2001. In addition, I am sure you will continue to do so with your iPhone.

The world has been a better place. Without you and your Apple ][, the PC industry would not have taken off as is, at least not so elegantly. Without you and your Macintosh (perhaps plus Xerox Parc), we would still stuck in the command line user interface, no window, no mouse, and with clunky in-consistent keyboard shortcuts (aka "amazing UI" as in NeXTSTEP 3 Demo). Bill and Microsoft would have nowhere to copy Windows from, Ballmer would have no one to shout "Developers Developers..". Though the big brother is still watching almost everyone, and the revolution has not succeeded, there are more and more Switchers just as the 12 Disciples following Jesus and Washington and Jefferson, who "switched" and led others switching to the American belief. The Macintosh is a dream and a belief. A dream where computers are easy to use, great to look at and elegantly to feel. A dream where there were not no hassle dealing with Viruses, Malwares, BSoDs, DLLs and Registries. A belief where no IT person and Encyclopedia-like thick User Manuals (plus, after sale support calls to India) are needed. We Evangelists swear to slowly take people back from confuses and panics and unneccessary pains. We live in this Windows world and we ought to be good citizens, but time will prove why this Troy will forever alter the Windows world, because "Once you switched to Mac, you never look back."

Without you and your iPod+iTunes, Rock and Roll would not have reborn and we will not be listening to music this easy and as like. Without your struggle and continued efforts with the Big Five, no one would be able to own the music. Windows Media DRM plus the greedy Record Labels would have forever locked people out from the world of justice and right and jail everyone in this new digital music world. Tortured UI would have ruled every single Music Player out there, with tiny screens and awkward nipple-like buttons. "128MB with 30 songs in your pocket" would have been our wildest dream. Moreover, no one wants more because merely those 30 songs would have taken well over an hour to "sync" to the players without Firewire (Intel would never invent USB2.0 were there not have been Firewire). But it could and were even worse because the success rate of a sync were well below 50% (remember that Yepp?), and after which or halfway thru the battery died out and you had to buy some new AAAs and let out some more Leads the environment to even begin listening to these 30 songs.

Without you and your Pixar (Now assets of Disney), CG and computer animation would not be seen in movies and less laugh could have been observed in the cinema. Toy Story? Finding Nemo? The Incredibles? Cars? Why would “serious people” even want it!

Without you and your Apple (Now Apple Inc.), beige boxes would still be the symbol of a computer with cords and wires dangling around like . Industrial design and elegance would never be relevance to a machine. Passion, Stevenote, RDM, Wow factor, "Boom", "blow away", "amazing", "mere mortal", and rock concert would be far away from the computer industry. No one around the world would camp out the night before in a cold winter day, fly to or across America, or stay up until 2 o'clock late in the morning (in other countries of other continents) just for a better seat for the next day's keynote of a CEO or simply to watch it. No multi-hundred people would line up stretching out a few blocks just to wait for the opening of a Computer Store; no one would cut, shave, or paint his hair to mimic a company logo. No one would create a community with countless rumor sites having various "sources" claiming a new tech products were on the horizon, and thousands of people follow up immediately to piping up their dreams. No one would…

We are seen as the crazy ones from time to time, but we like the umbrella. Since the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. It is 2007 and the first 30 years were just the beginning. For Apple, and for us all.

Happy Birthday, Steve. From Beijing.

*reposted on March 11th, corrected lots of grammar mistakes.