When the end of hope isn't

He had a dream and a vision. He started it, build it, grew it. It was his baby. But something needed to happen for the hopes to be fulfilled.

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” -- Steve Jobs

Only after that did we get Macs, iPods, iTunes, iPhones, and iPads.