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The death of Steve Jobs has prompted countless people on the Internet to share their tributes to the visionary Apple founder and one-time CEO. From personal computing to phones to tablet devices to even Pixar, Jobs' influence has touched many industries and many lives.
The travel industry is no exception. Many travelers now regularly use travel-related applications built for Apple products, streamlining and simplifying the process of say, riding the subway, consulting a guidebook or translating foreign languages. We'd also be remiss not to mention the convenience of having a phone that doubles as a camera. Now tourists — at least the ones slyly taking photos from their phone — aren't as easily picked out in a crowd.
The list could go on, but instead, we asked our Twitter followers to tell us how they feel Steve Jobs' vision changed their travel experiences. Below are a few of their tributes.
Please add to the list by writing to us on Twitter @msnbc_travel.
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Rebecca Ruiz is a senior editor at msnbc.com. Follow her on Twitter.
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Give me a break.
He didn't invent the camera phone. What about the travel related apps for IBM's? Did he invent them too?
When saying "camera phone", do you mean any old phone with a camera, or are you referring to the smartphone comment?
Granted, he didn't invent any old phone with a camera in it, nor did he invent every smartphone following the iPhone - but the iPhone did lead the way and seemingly does stay in the leading position when it comes to which OS/phone to develop apps for.
I think it's great and widely recognized that before Steve Jobs, nobody dated to travel farther than two blocks, but now, with iCars, iPlanes etc, we can do amazing things.
But why dwell on these petty things? I personally thought it was much more amazing how he discovered cures for cancer and Alzheimer on a single day, just to go on and bring peace to the middle east the very next day. Amazing.
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Oh yeah, because Apple's gadgets and their apps only seem to get in the way of travelling, right?