Apple CEO Tim Cook today emailed Apple employess ahead of the 3rd anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death which takes place this Sunday, October 5th.
Cook’s email, verbatim:
Team,
Sunday will mark the third anniversary of Steve’s passing. I’m sure that many of you will be thinking of him on that day, as I know I will.
I hope you’ll take a moment to appreciate the many ways Steve made our world better. Children learn in new ways thanks to the products he dreamed up. The most creative people on earth use them to compose symphonies and pop songs, and write everything from novels to poetry to text messages. Steve’s life’s work produced the canvas on which artists now create masterpieces.
Steve’s vision extended far beyond the years he was alive, and the values on which he built Apple will always be with us. Many of the ideas and projects we’re working on today got started after he died, but his influence on them — and on all of us — is unmistakeable.
Enjoy your weekend, and thanks for helping carry Steve’s legacy into the future.
Tim
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Steve’s influence on me was huge and will continue to be so.
Friend said to me he never thought he’d outlive Steve Jobs. I said, “You won’t.”
Wow, that’s deep. Far out!
I owe my career to Steve’s genius. Being a Macintosh Systems Support Specialist in the corporate world was the most fun job I ever had. I never regretted having to go to work. I’ve worked with some of the most incredibly talented and creative people in the industry. Each day was different, and I was never bored. To think prior to being a Mac Tech, I worked in a factory for 14 years for GM. I hated working in a factory. My co-workers thought I was crazy to quit my job at GM. In hind sight, it was the best decision I ever made. Working doing what you love is like never having to work. It probably wouldn’t have happened if not for Steve’s Apple.
Working doing what you love is true independence and without doubt Steve lived and proved this to his last breath.
Me too. I left Apple after 10 yrs to pursue my dream and it was all thanks to Steve and working at Apple. So sad to loose him. 8^(
To paraphrase Robert Kennedy: “Men see things as they are, and ask why; Steve Jobs dreamed things that never were, and asked, “why not”?
He changed the world for me, my children, and my children’s children. I am ever grateful to, and for, Steve Jobs.
Our world may never produce another mind that has the impact that Steve Jobs has had.
Of course it will. I understand the sentiment, but that’s pretty myopic thinking.
You must have missed the word ‘may’. Let’s say Steve’s genius is one in a billion. That genius also needs to be in the right place at the right time.
You don’t criticize a heartfelt sentiment at at a memorial like this. It is out of place, not necessary and selfish. Nothing personal. You have to be taught this or learn from experience.
No offense taken. But, in the end, Steve Jobs is just a man, like any one of us.
In a world of false idols, he was one of my few true role models.
OMG! Has it been 3 years already!!!
Miss you Steve
Some see what is, others (Steve) see what can be …
Sure do miss the man, and I think he made the right decision in picking Tim as his successor.
If he’d picked Scott Forstall, there’d be chalk marks and cigarette burns on the green felt by now.
True. But he was a narcissist just like you. So he wasn’t perfect.
Grow up, Scotty. Picking fights with strangers is juvenile.
scotty, do NOT beam me up to your alternate universe, i am fine here where some people want reality without including it in my apps
it is fine to allow me to explore as an older person, felt and leather are maybe dated, since they involve animals
I for one would love a proper pool table without chalk marks and cigarette burns since that is a rarity these days
wish my/our belief was universal
I wonder how much longer Steve might have lived if he had only listened to his doctors and gotten that damn operation way before the cancer spread? Unfortunately that was the one time the reality distortion field should have been shut off.
Ah well, we have to let it go. RIP SJ.
Steve Jobs is *the* absolute counterexample to all the new-age health fad advocates. Jobs was vegan for most of his adult life, initially shunned established medical treatment once he received his diagnosis, etc.
If he got and died of cancer at such a relatively early age despite all of this, then the new age lifestyle claims are clearly no better than science-based medicine.
So glad i got to see him on stage once in 1989 doing his demo for NeXT computers, and then 3 more times at Keynotes in the early 2000’s. I will forever miss him. Hearing his direct no BS answers to questions. His ability to cut through the crap and call it like it is. His ability to inspire and share his passion for creating insanely great things.
Steve’s vision to EMPOWER & EDUCATE Users lives on my Power Mac G4 in the little animated training video that shipped with the Mac Plus. Talk about compatability. That code ran on ANY Apple Mac running system 3.2 through 10.4. I must find time to move it to My Mac Air. The $ is on that it may still run….in a small b&w screen within the screen…
I got to meet Steve at the rollout of them 6100/7100/8100. He was SOoooo “ALL IN” about each product. You could FEEL IT. What a gift he was to the planet.
It’s on my iCal forever.
I remember when I heard of his passing, very well, and it still brings the same heartfelt grief when I do.
He died the day before my birthday. I remember feeling alone. That’s so silly huh?
Miss him dearly and daily. He lives on in all the creative works we see, such as this one and many more.
So, one’s clearly supposed to be a hot chick, and the other? Like a dude with a rabbit head?
I think they’ve started branding Steve. He’s be proud.
I am so looking forward to seeing Steve on the other side!
Miss you Steve. Your two eras at Apple gave me many special memories at different phases of my life, not to mention the excitement surrounding each new product and Apple Store opening…and always wondering what one more great thing is just around the corner. Best wishes to your family. May your Apple Team continue to carry on your legacy and make amazing products that delight their customers, and someday, your children’s children, for years and years and years ahead.