One year ago today, Steve Jobs passed away.
The home page of Apple.com is completely blank except for a 1 minute and 45 second movie entitled “Remembering Steve”.
AFter the movie concludes, the page transitions to:
A message from Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.
Steve’s passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reflect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.
One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his legacy into the future.
I’m incredibly proud of the work we are doing, delivering products that our customers love and dreaming up new ones that will delight them down the road. It’s a wonderful tribute to Steve’s memory and everything he stood for.
Tim
Steve Jobs gave the address at Stanford University’s 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. We’d like to share it with you:
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We miss you, Steve!
Thank you, Steve, for everything.
Do you think Steve Jobs actually can read your post?
Don’t be a dick! Not today…
Do you actually think that we want to read *your* posts, MacFreek?
I think you did!
Your posts are like barf stains I have to step over in the parking lot that no one cleaned up.
Yes, I see them, and yes they are equally disgusting and add the same exact value to my life.
Nice job.
What a wonderful neighborhood you live in! After stepping over “barf stains” do you have to dodge bullets, avoid crack hos, and escape gangstas?
But I didn’t *want* to read it. As usual, the point that you missed, as usual…
MacFreek: “Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable…”
I do, thank you Steve ….we love ya and miss ya, brother, thanks!
how do you know he can’t!…
Quit it both of you!
I just discovered tonight that steve died on the same date that the beatles released their first album, Oct. 5th.
Weird
Bless you Steve, and thank you for what you did for my life and for the whole world.
Ditto …. We miss you Steve …. Peace brother!
In nearly every room of my house I see the impact of your short time on this earth. I can’t even imagine what my life would be without your genius.
Thank you, Mr. Jobs.
Thank you Steve so very much. For your ingenuity, creativity, imagination and above for being an inspiration. No one can ever replace you.
Thank you Steve. You made a huge difference in my life.
So say we all.
There’s no one like you nor will there ever be. I trust in your great creation Apple and your care and feeding of the souls that follow you to live up to the spirit of “insanely great” always. You are sorely missed and for most not a week goes by without most Apple fans thinking about you like a lost family member. Rest in peace but you’ll never be forgotten. And thank you for devoting your life to making my life and so many others lives better.
Hear, hear!
Very well said.
Amen Peter. Cheers.
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The video was superb.
Steve, your legacy endures.
Steve Jobs legacy is now in the hands of others. A two minute tribute is nice, but hardly makes a difference in the long run.
It’s a modern version of the “Think Different” ad, except instead of Einstein and Amelia Earhart, it’s Steve Jobs.
The video makes a difference because it’s a statement of culture, and of values. It reminds Apple who they are and reminds the public what Apple stands for. Just like the original Think Different ad did.
Bet it makes more of a difference than your entire pathetic existence.
Thanking someone who is incapable of receiving thanks is a bit weird. This sort of sentimentality is just ridiculous. Sending Jobs a note while he was living would have been appreciated.
It’s a comfort to the living MacScrooge, and heartfelt. (Try not to completely toss away all your humanity.)
Time to man up, accept reality, and move on. There’s much to do and accomplish. Do not become mired in the past or succumb to purposeless sentimentality.
There is nothing wrong with paying tribute to someone who’s impact upon the technological world was so profound and has had such a global impact. To think otherwise is to display a lack of humanity and shameful ignorance seen only in the worst dregs of society. I respectfully suggest that you go fuck yourself assuming, of course, that you can find your own arse with the benefit of both hands and a detailed set of technical drawings .
=:~)
Man Steve….why did you have to delay your cancer treatment for 9 months??? The world needed you…needs you so bad…
No guarantee it would have added an extra day to his life. Pancreatic cancer is extremely lethal, even the supposedly “good” kind he had. All surgeries have risks.
My boss’ wife has the same kind of cancer Steve had. She was rushed to surgery 12 days after being diagnosed. Result, alive 3 years and counting.
The truth is: we don’t know.
Remember Andy Warhol? Died from complications from a rather simple operation.
Yes, it was a stupid thing to begin with, and it was probably a foolish decision – but we don’t know how history would have turned out, had he rushed to hospital in the same manner. Sometimes, doctors get overmotivated with VIP patients and do all kinds of stupid stuff.
Now that most of the medical story is public, I’m amazed that he fought this for eight years.
The world is better for all you gave.
Thanks Steve, it was an honor and a privilege to know you.
Visionary. Driven. Capable. Uncompromising. Artistic. Passionate. Tasteful. Unique. Warrior. Missed.
– Universe Dented, check.
– Message received, check. Begin Renaissance II.
Thank you Steve. How lucky we were to have you.
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO
THAT GOOD NIGHT
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
RIP king. We’ll never forget you…
In this world where everyone is trying to be like everyone else, thank you Steve for carving out a place for the crazy ones who crave excellence with out all the Bull $hit.
I love you forever Steve. Earth went dark last Oct 5.
Yes it did. The reapers are here. But all is not lost. Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and the rest of the team are on the job. Life is more vivid than ever.
Steve changed the world. He was a rarity – a visionary, an artist, and a technologist. He gathered the best talent out there to help realize Apple’s goal – insanely great stuff. Thanks to Jobs and Woz, the REAL personal computer revolution started many years before it otherwise would have.
I am glad he lived long enough to enjoy vindication and success. Apple went from a laughing stock of the tech industry to the largest company in the world. Joke’s on you, Michael Dell. It won’t be long until Dell becomes as irrelevant a name as Commodore or Tandy. Apple survived those companies, and will flourish for years to come.
Thanks Steve.
Well said. The man wanted to make a difference, not just make money. That alone set him apart from the scrabbling crowd of clown princes.
There are few greater goods that one can do in one’s life than to lead other human beings to create and produce innovative and high-quality products that enable us, inspire us, and push us forward. These things benefit humankind at ALL levels. Very very few of us do this to the extent that Steve Jobs did. Very very few of us are irreplaceable to humankind. Very very few of us have a positive impact on a global level. The death of very very few of us will fill like a personal loss to humans around the world.
Steve Jobs was one such person. I miss him bitterly. May his memory be a blessing for us all.
The great ones always seem to leave prematurely. RIP. You will always be remembered for your profound gifts to the world.
SJ’s concepts will live on. That’s his gift to us.
& not just successes. Uncounted failures precede every icon.
That is the mark of a great person.
Thank you Steve.
I am a little bit down today. I remember when I heard that Steve was stepping down as CEO. That was a very bad day, because I knew what it meant. Apple has already shown signs that it will never be the same as it was under Steve…
I miss you, Steve.
Thank you Steve.
Job well done.
Miss you.
Remembering Steve… Early Apple… Late Apple… Smiling about the future… Never give up, never surrender…
Thank you Steve!
– Apple/Mac user since 1984
One in a billion.
We are soldiers under Jobs command. Apple ’til I die.
We fight for Apple’s DNA.
We Miss you forever. Thank you for all.
My bday is on feb 24th too. So proud of this.
I went to all things D and watched him at his best one more time.
It made me feel better.
Wonder… is that Yo Yo Ma playing Cello as the background music in the video tribute? Steve loved his music
Yes, Yo Yo Ma playing Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G major (BWV 1007) according to another commentator on AI.
Steve jobs you changed computing for the better but you were a huge asshole and should of taken better responsibility for those around you.
you make judgements from the few stories you read about him when he was young or the issues he had with some of his staff but there were also other stories about how good he was with Lauren and how well he took care of his later children: taking them to neighbourhood pool parties, crying at their graduation. Lauren and those kids seem to be fine with him. Did he have 5 or 6 wives and sets of children like some other celebs that people admire? And some of his friends like Cook and Schiller stuck with him for years (he asked the board to give Cook multimillion bonus for his work as acting CEO when he was sick) so how was “taken better of those around him” ? Seems like if you perform he was fine with you.
Steve was abandoned by his dad and put into foster care, later when he found out he had a sister he reached out to her.
Having worked 15 years in the social services with foster kids many of whom have vast emotional problems it’s amazing that Steve achieved so much in life.
In the end we outsiders only reading stories will never know the real steve, it is for those who knew him personally to judge.
There is a candle burning on my table. There is another light that never goes out…
To remember Steve is to be grateful that he got his second chance at Apple, and to be inspired about all the good things it brought to hundreds of millions of us around the world, no matter the age, gender or the amount of tech savviness a person possesses. That’s a pretty hefty and meaningful dent to make in the universe.
Steve was special <3
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Thank you Steve.
His story is so unbelievable. Guy starts company in garage. He gets fired from same company he founded. He then comes back ten years later to lead same company on trajectory towards Mars and beyond. It is special. Like Elvis, Beatles, Moon walks, Cubs winning World Series. Etc . For the tech set, jobs is all those together and more. He inspired so many. Thanks Steve!!!
I wish your family the best.
For those who haven’t seen it yet- there is a long interview with Steve for the Smithsonian archive… It’s from the mid 90’s and the topics vary widely from education reform, to Pixar and NeXT, to Apple’s troubles. At one point they asked him if Apple could be saved. He grimaced… Looked thoughtful, then replied something like- “For Apple to be saved… Somebody is gonna have to pull a rabbit out of a hat”. So awesome. I wish they used that sound bite.
Check it out if you haven’t seen it yet. Magic XD
So that’s where the “magical” meme originated—with Steve himself, before he returned to Apple.
Shame on Apple UK. Business as usual.
Apple UK sorted and showing the tribute.
Steve Jobs = iGenius.
He thunk different.
Steve was one of the reasons I switched to Apple. I believed in his vision which outshone the decrepitude I saw around me infecting Microsoft & Windows & all the thousands of copycat Android phones out there.
He had a way of making the complicated simple, of blowing away the lies, obfuscation and double talk of the other computer manufacturers.
We are living in the vision of the future that you saw. You left a dent in the universe where I inhabit.
The video doesn’t play for me, though I’m at work and using a PC with Firefox. Any ideas?
Change your user agent string to report u are on an ipad – worked for me
Thanks!
Steve had his genome sequenced because of his cancer. We do not understand how to use that information today to cure cancer. But one day we will.
But more importantly, his DNA is somewhere a 3-billion letter digital file. If his family allows, his doppelgänger will rise one day.
I just hope Apple’s DNA is just as well preserved till then.
Steve, when you rise again, I hope you do more than what the earlier Steve did and bring joy to our lives again.
Conceptually, gene therapy would allow for the introduction of working, healthy genes to be introduced into people with defective genes that lead to cancer. It would not replace their defective genes but theoretically could provide the functionality the defective genes do not.
But of course, it’s not that simple. Nature’s complexity and evolution is well beyond our current human comprehension. Perfection is only a goal.
Dude. U fucking didn’t approve my awesome post. I’m pissed. It was nothing negative. Wtf. Like… Dude…
You’re gonna lost traffic if u keep fucking over te regs. Sheeit
My Lordthree,
By the quality of your post here I feel equally outraged we are never to read in awe the tremendously erudite and incisive thoughts erupting from your keen mind as a beacon of light to shine down on us all. Alas a loss to the ages… 🙁
Dear Apple, I must admit, I feel ashamed of what is going on at Foxconn, And I withdrawed my IPhone 5 order today…
When you use an iPhone, knowing the circumstances in Chinas factories, you are guilty of the industrial slavery that is accepted by the biggest company of this planet.
And this slavery is the reason why Apple became the biggest company. We never wanted to be a part of this misery!
IF WE ALL JUST STOP BUYING NEW IPHONES, APPLE HAS TO THINK OVER !
Shame on you Tim, for making it a rotten Apple…
The magic is gone, the mass hysteria results in too much money that makes Tim and the board blind for Steves ideas.
It was Big Steve’s idea to move all the manufacturing to Foxconn et al… the rest of the board went to some pains trying to shush him whenever he started cackling about ‘enslaving all those (Chinese people) to build these bunco gizmos’.
I guess you could buy an Android device, Google upholds their
high standards by having them built by elves.
All of you are taking this hero worship stuff way too far.
Probably some canny show biz impresario is gonna
get wise and start doing Jobs impersonator shows
in Vegas and Atlantic City., rope all of you in.
Instead of singing and dancing the show will be ‘Jobs’
recreating past igizmo product announcements….
“Applemania”… “Stevemalion”… “Phantom of the Yerba Buena Center” “Les MisterApples” (okay, that last one is kind of stupid…)
You will all be there camped out in line to buy tickets….
Thank you Steve.
Has anybody noticed what looks like an iPad on the lecture stand in front of Steve when he is introducing the iPhone. It appears at :50 on the tribute.. The iPad is visible on the lecture stand. You can hear Steve order 4,000 lattes to go and in the background is the screen with Al Gore and Michele Hill’s names.