“Apple fans from New York to Australia gathered to mourn the death of Steve Jobs, leaving Apple products, bouquets and heartfelt messages in tribute to the man who transformed the computing, music and phone industries,” Sarah McBride and Liana Baker report for Reuters.
“Flags outside Apple’s headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California flew at half mast as a group of mourners flocked to a nearby lawn,” McBride and Baker report. “Distraught Apple fans left flowers in tribute and a man played the bagpipes… At the downtown San Francisco Apple store, people held up pictures of Jobs on their iPads and taped greeting cards and post-it notes to the store window saying ‘thank you Steve’ and ‘I hate cancer.’ There were also candles and red apples left outside.”
“Across the country in New York City, a makeshift memorial made out of fliers featuring pictures of Jobs was established outside a 24-hour Apple store on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, with mourners snapping photos of it on their iPhones,” McBride and Baker report. “‘We will miss you Steve, RIP. Thank you for your vision,’ read one flier… At the Apple Store on Boylston Street in Boston, Angelos Nicolaou, a student at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, said that Jobs ‘inspired us to be rebels and challenge the status quo. I hope there will be more leaders like him. It seems like the world is running out of them.'”
McBride and Baker report, “In Sydney, Australia, lawyer George Raptis, who was five years old when he first used a Macintosh computer, said of Jobs: ‘He’s changed the face of computing. There will only ever be one Steve Jobs.'”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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The right person at the right time, at the dawn of personal computing.
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Steve Jobs – my hero, and he always will be.
Rest easy brother. X
This afternoon, I walked a few hundred metres down Regent Street from my university to the flagship Apple Store. I followed two Met Police officers down the street, who stopped and observed those paying tribute. They spoke to some, and also the frozen-looking TV cameramen, and then quietly entered the Apple Store and presented a card of condolence to the employees, many of whom were watching flowers being laid from the other side of the glass window.
It is not often that anyone inspires such sincere and widespread gratitude and sympathy. We must remember that the majority of people on this planet have probably used something, somewhere, that has benefited from Steve’s input.
Apple Stores are not really shops at all. They are places where you can see the world changing, one step at a time. In some ways, these stores do not sell. They give far more than you buy.
A couple of Apple Store employees here in my hometown of Little Rock, AR went to place flowers at their store Wednesday night and interrupted a crash and grab robbery in progress. Thieves had used a sledgehammer to break the front glass and took lots of iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. Terrible people to do something like that, but even worse to do it that night.
As a sidenote – me and my kids waiting in line overnight to be the first customers at the store (only been opened for a little over a month).