Steve Jobs spent his entire life seeing the future. Then came his last words

Published October 5, 2026 11:00am ET



Steve Jobs died 15 years ago. His last words were, “Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, wow!” Don’t you wonder what a man who built the future could see at the moment he passed?

Jobs was a genius who repeatedly changed the world. Before he created the iPhone, everyone used the Blackberry, to which businesspeople were so addicted that they called it the Crackberry. The engineers at Research In Motion told their CEO they could put a phone app on the BlackBerry. The CEO laughed at them, saying, “Nobody’s going to want to talk on the phone on a handheld device.” Jobs knew otherwise. His phone app soon buried the BlackBerry.

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