The Jobs followers
The success of Jobs led to a large number of his followers in China who are now important IT industry insiders. In 1987, Lei Jun, the board chairman of UCweb, the leading Chinese mobile browser, was still a college student when he saw a biography of Jobs and was deeply impressed with his story.
After his graduation, he went to the Kingsoft software company to start his IT career in 1992 and was appointed to become the general manager of the company in 1998. In 2010, Lei started his own company—the Xiaomi Corporation, an iPhone and Android development company.
Not long ago, Lei's company launched its first smart phone called the Xiaomi phone, which is said to be the fastest smartphone on the market, compared with Apple's 1 GHz iPhone 4 and the 1.2-GHz dual-core S2 from Samsung Electronics.
At the launch ceremony, Lei imitated his idol Jobs' apparel with a black T-shirt, a pair of blue Jeans, and sneakers. He looked just like his idol, but he is very conscious that he is not Jobs. "I am very aware that though I look like him, I am not him and I will not replace him," said Lei.
Besides Lei, there are other followers, like Huang Zhang, the general manager of Meizu, a Chinese electronics manufacture, Chen Haozhi, the investor of Cocaochina, and other IT industry elites.
No more Jobs
Although Jobs has many followers in China, no one will be exactly like him. Many young people hoped to be him, but their dreams turned out to be a failure.
Though people saw that Jobs had big successes in his career, many failed to notice the hard times he went through in his early career. "Young people right now in China focus too much on success. They cannot bear the hardships, which dooms them to ultimate failure," said a Chinese American who is teaching in Suffolk.
"Actually, nobody needs to be another Jobs, but his spirit needs to be carried on," said the teacher. Once a people are perseverant and have the courage to bear some bitterness in life, they can be successful.
