Thank you Steve Jobs

Today, millions of families around the world will celebrate the holidays with facetime. This invention is patented by Apple computer. Sure there may be other ways of doing this sharing, but the iPhone made it easy, efficient and inexpensive.

My wife and I had iPhone facetime this Christmas morning with our son and our 4 grandchildren in Valencia, California. We said merry Christmas and saw our grandchildren open a few presents. It was much better than the old-time traditional Christmas phone-call that we did only a few years ago. We did the same facetime with another son in St. Louis and later had a short video sent to us of our granddaughter playing with the video game we sent her.

Steve Jobs brought families closer this Christmas and made sharing important moments easier, more accessible and faster. He helped us all be better connected.

Thank you Steve Jobs.

Sure I know he did not do it alone, but without him, it would never have happened. Next year we will be doing facetime with multiple people displayed on giant iPads hung on our living room walls.

I can hardly wait.