“Apple’s visionary co-founder is a constant presence even now, living on in movie posters that adorn bus stops and periodically in the news, like when his childhood house is considered for historical landmarking,” Joanna Stern reports for ABC News. “But today is actually the second anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death.”
“On Oct. 5, 2011, Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple’s iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macs, died at the age of 56, surrounded by family members, after battling a form of pancreatic cancer and having a liver transplant,” Stern reports. “‘Steve was an amazing human being and left the world a better place. I think of him often and find enormous strength in memories of his friendship, vision and leadership,’ Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a letter to all Apple employees on Friday. ‘He left behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We will continue to honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to the work he loved so much.'”
“Apple still thrives on the products Jobs created, but since his death industry experts have wondered whether Apple would be able to maintain its lead without his foresight and innovation. However, analysts point to Apple’s recent successful iPhone launch, in which it sold 9 million phones in the first weekend, as further proof of the company’s lead in the industry,” Stern reports. “In Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs biography, Jobs is quoted as saying he had figured out the solution to some of the major issues plaguing the television. ‘It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it,’ Jobs told Issacson.”
“Apple has been rumored to be working on a television set of its own and Tim Cook has recently said that the area was of ‘intense interest’ to the company. Cook has also said that wearable computing is interesting. Apple has been said to be working on a smartwatch or its iWatch, which would work with the iPhone to put some more functionality on your body,” Stern reports. “Whether or not those products are introduced soon, it is clear that Jobs’ legacy lives on at the company he built in his garage in 1976.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We miss you, Steve!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Seems just like yesterday he pass away. Steve you are sorely missed by the Apple faithful. Hopefully your legacy will live on via Tim Cook and company.
A piece of Steve’s genius was in inspiring and driving his team to excel. Another piece was in saying “no” to very good ideas to focus on a few great ones. Yet another piece was his extraordinary vision of how technology could evolve to help people and transform society for the better. But he was fallible and human, too.
SJ is gone and the Apple team that remains will have to carry on his legacy. That is often difficult, as the Disney team discovered over the years. But I believe that Apple can continue to amaze and astound us with magical devices and software.
Steve Jobs never died! His name is Johnathen Ivy. The vision of Apple is the people who shared Jobs dream. It’s is still very much present in Apple today. No doubt Jobs was visionary but it’s the people in Apple that have made Apple what it is and what it will be.
Close, but it’s “Jonathan Ive.”
“Sir,” to you.
A sad remembrance. I’ve been in awe of Steve Jobs since the first days of Apple.
Jobs speaking of the Mobile Revolution. “The job is done. Have fun world. Now I’m out of here”!
Thank you Steve … Thank you! You changed the world!
“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
Ah, yes, the good old Morphine Rush.
Steve’s ideas of how to execute change will live on with all of us.
I miss Steve. His legacy will live on forever at Apple. The structures and philosophies he built into the Apple culture and structure will live on as long as Apple exists. Apple only hires very special and talented people who will believe in and follow the Apple paradigm. You would never see a Steve Ballmer working at Apple. If anything, you have to have basic social skills, a creative mind and talent just to get you foot in the door.
*sigh*
🙁
My Mum died the same year as Steve Jobs, I will always miss them both.
I’m so very sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. I lost my 6 yr. old little boy on the this day and it was his 6th birthday. Steve Jobs was a great great man and it saddens me that his family too feels the pain of his loss. He left a legacy so great and at least we and others can remember him for all the great things he achieved.
Miss Steve…feels like he is still around in some way at Apple though. I think his ideals and approach is engrained in the psych of Apple as a whole so we can still enjoy a connection.
The hate found in the comments section on that article’s pages is amazing. And disgusting. I’m sure they all wrote their hate speeches on technology that either Steve invented or stolen from what Steve invented.
Wow, can’t believe it’s already been 2 years.
Me either.
Ricordando Steve.
We miss you, Steve.
I still remember where I was standing when I heard the news. We new it was coming but it was still a huge shock.
God bless.
I was sitting at Taco Bell when I heard the news. I am not ashamed to admit that I started crying.
RIP Steve Jobs. Not an Apple follower but massively respect your genius and creativeness that was and is still unparalleled.
In 1993 Steve Jobs visited Australia briefly to speak to the Apple Aus and universities re carrying the NeXT computer. I was working for Apple at the time running the comms group. Steve asked the GM for the best techie they had so he tapped me. I totally froze. Steve was legendary for his total lack of patience for those who wasted his time.
I spent almost 3 hrs with him discussing the future. He wizzed through the NeXT in under an hour and I experienced first hand his RDF. Never before nor since have I been so enthralled by another’s vision and personality. For the rest of the time we talked about the future of comms technology and some other stuff.
Yes he was driven, brash (swearing a lot) and so passionate about what he saw coming. I was initially nervous but he was very charming and very human.
I am so privileged to have met him and to have spent 3 hrs in his company. He inspired me to believe in myself and to do what I believe what was right even when all others were fiddling about over processes and endless meetings and other “big company bullshit”.
He really did change the world for the better. I was blessed to have met him. When he died we lost one of the most brilliant and unique persons of our era.
His greatest achievement was when he returned to his beloved Apple and built a company that could carry on his vision.
Thanks Steve for your vision and focus. You will continue to inspire people to do better than they believe they can.
He is missed; by the faithful who bought into the vision and hardware, and by a company that has lost his touch.
Too bad he’s gone. I can only imagine how much better Apple would be today were he still here.
No, you can’t.
For clarification,
Cook said that television (the experience) was an area of intense interest for Apple, not necessarily a television set.
Ya this guy was a real piece of shit
Next time, eat a burger.
Steve’s ideas of how to execute change will live on with all of us.