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Top Tributes for iCon Steve Jobs
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Today
the world has woken up to the sad and disorientating fact that Apple
founder Steve Jobs is no longer with us, having lost his battle with
pancreatic cancer late last night.
Naturally, tributes have been pouring in thick and fast
across the web as the world marked the passing of a true visionary.
Here’s a mere handful of the most creative, heartfelt and inspiring
tributes that are making the rounds online:Steve Jobs, the face of Apple
Nothing sums up the measure of the man better than putting his silhouette in the bite of the Apple that he created. “icon” is a word that’s being used an awful lot today to describe Steve Jobs and it’s one of the few words that truly fits. Though, perhaps in his case it should be “iCon”. This image shown above was created by designer Jonathan Mak Long.
Respect From Foes
Though it’s hugely simple, Google’s home page tribute speaks volumes as it honours the search giant’s biggest rival. Though Google and Apple have locked horns across so many technological battlefields, this quiet but heartfelt tribute shows that despite their differences, the Google team have huge respect for Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs Rap
Though I’m not sure if Steve himself could have busted out those rhymes with such lyrical efficiency, there’s no denying the truth and the impact of this creation of the Pantless Knights/Seedless.
This tribute song “We Are Steve” is meant to convey just how much Steve Jobs influenced the world with his visionary brand of technology and its rippling effect on inspiring innovation and a desire for change.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
The layout of boingboing is a wonderfully fitting tribute to Steve Jobs, as it harks back to a time before Macs were the sexiest, slimmest things on the planet.
Gizmodo
Slightly more sombre, but just as heartfelt, Gizmodo’s tribute remembers how Jobs changed the world by smashing the status quo. Click for the tribute video.
Wired
Wander onto the Wired home page and you’ll find a artfully stylized wall of tribute quotes from prominent members of the worlds of politics, entertainment, technology and business.
Pavement Tribute
Much closer to home, the tributes were just as personal. On the pavement just outside of Steve Jobs’s home in Palo Alto, California, neighbors as well as mourners from across the US inscribed their own messages of love and well-wishing.
The huge outpouring of love, grief and respect from all over the globe leave no doubt that Steve Jobs will be sorely missed by both those who knew him personally and the untold millions who enjoyed the fruits of his labor.
RIP Steve Jobs.
READERS: Our idea is to add to the tribute list as more of them come to light. So, if you catch a particularly interesting, emotional or otherwise creative tribute to Steve Jobs, please let us know about it by posting a link in the comments section below.
By Jon Swartz and William M. Welch, USA TODAY
Updated 3m ago
SAN FRANCISCO
–
Steve Jobs,
the innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of
technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod,
iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store, has died.
The Apple chairman was 56.
The iconic American CEO, whose impact many have compared to auto magnate Henry Ford and Walt Disney—
whom Jobs openly admires — abruptly stepped down from his position as
CEO of Apple in August 2011 because of health concerns. He had been
suffering from pancreatic cancer.
PHOTOS: Images of Jobs over the years
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a former Apple board member, called Jobs the best CEO of the past 50 years — perhaps 100 years.
A
seminal business and technology leader, Jobs' success flowed from a
relentless focus on making products that were easy and intuitive for the
average consumer to use. His products were characterized by
groundbreaking design and style that, along with their technological
usefulness, made them objects of intense desire by consumers around the
world.
He was known as a demanding, mercurial
boss and an almost mystical figure in technology circles as well as
American popular culture. Author and business consultant Jim Collins once called Jobs the "Beethoven of business."
He was one of the figures who made Silicon Valley the capital of technological innovation and related venture capital fortunes.
His
creation of iTunes as an online way to purchase music digitally helped
transform the music industry and delivered a blow to the standard
industry practice of packaging music in albums or CDs. With iTunes,
consumers could buy individual songs for 99 cents. The music industry
didn't welcome the change at first, but, after waging an intense battle
against illegal music downloads, it came to rely on the business model
iTunes created.
Jobs' work at Apple and other projects made him a fortune estimated by Forbes
magazine in 2011 at $8.3 billion. He was No.110 on Forbes' list of
billionaires worldwide and No.34 in the United States, as of the
magazine's March 2011 estimates.
Unlike tech rival Bill Gates of Microsoft or business leader Warren Buffett,
Jobs did not make a practice of public philanthropy. While he may have
made anonymous gifts to charity, he did not publicly embrace Gates' and
Buffett's call for the wealthiest Americans to pledge to donate half
their fortunes.
Jobs was married to Laurene
Powell Jobs, 47. He had four children, three with Powell Jobs. A fourth
child, Lisa, had an early Apple computer -- a predecessor to the
Macintosh -- named after her. though the family succeeded in keeping
the children out of the spotlight and largely unknown to the public. He
was Buddhist.
Apple, and a re-boot
Jobs dropped out of Reed College to build computers with high school friend Steve Wozniak, creating what became the Apple I computer in 1976.
With
sales lagging by the 1980s, Jobs was ousted from the company's
leadership in a 1985 boardroom coup led by then-Apple CEO John Sculley.
He returned in 1996 after Apple bought his technology start-up, NeXT,
for $400 million. Within months, Jobs took over as Apple CEO for the
ousted Gil Amelio and led a major corporate turnaround.
Five
years later, with the release of the iPod personal digital music
player, Apple had leaped from computer maker to become the leading
consumer electronics giant worldwide.
Millions
of its computers and gadgets were produced in Asia and sold to U.S. and
worldwide markets, making the company one of the most recognizable and
beloved brand names ever.
Once on the brink of
financial abyss, Apple had a market value of $350 billion — not far
behind No.2 Exxon Mobil — by the time Jobs resigned as CEO in August
2011.
After his forced departure from Apple, Jobs bought what became Pixar from filmmaker George Lucas. The digital animation movie company has produced box-office hits including Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Disney bought the company for $7.4 billion in 2006. Jobs held a 7.3% ownership stake in Disney.
Health concerns
He
was known for creating a culture of secrecy at Apple that fueled
intense media speculation about the company's next product. Jobs himself
introduced major products with flair at highly anticipated events that
proved to be one of the company's best marketing tools.
Jobs
didn't hesitate to level caustic comments at competitors, particularly
Microsoft in earlier years and later Google, which he ridiculed as evil,
mediocre and lacking in taste. His skewering of Microsoft was parodied
in a series of TV ads featuring the characters "Mac" and "PC."
Jobs
was known for firing employees in profanity-laced tantrums and reducing
some subordinates to tears. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple and
Pixar worked with him for years.
Jobs is listed as an inventor or co-inventor on 313 Apple patents, including the iPod's user interface.
Though
he brought simple, elegant technology to the masses, the reclusive Jobs
was often uncomfortable around people and rarely spoke publicly. On
rare occasions when he spoke with reporters, Jobs offered few or no
personal insights.
Jobs' reluctance to appear publicly led to questions about his health, as did a dramatic loss in weight and gaunt appearance.
Jobs was diagnosed with a form of pancreatic cancer in 2003. He informed Apple employees in 2004.
"No
one wants to die," he said in a commencement speech at Stanford
University in 2005. "And yet death is the destination we all share. No
one has ever escaped it."
Jobs' status as a corporate star put him on the covers of Time, Fortune and Forbes.
"Jobs led an enormous cultural shift of the businessman as a creative, even artistic, force," says Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.
"When
Jobs first came on the scene, it wasn't cool to be in business,"
Deutschman says. "Through the 1970s, the Dow hardly moved. Being in
business was seen as being a total sellout. But Jobs was young and
glamorous, and gave business that image. Now, young people aspire to be
in business."
The early years
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on Feb. 24, 1955, to unwed parents. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Calif.
The
young Jobs contacted William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, to
ask for parts for a class project. Impressed, Hewlett offered Jobs a
summer internship.
Upon graduating from
Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif., in 1972, Jobs briefly went
to Reed College in Portland, Ore. After a stint as a video-game designer
at Atari, Jobs trekked to India in 1974, where he embraced Eastern
culture and religion. Shortly after that, he lived in a commune in
California.
In 1975, Jobs began hanging out with the Homebrew Computer Club
and a friend from high school, Steve Wozniak. Jobs, then 21, and
Wozniak — the "two Steves," as they became known — co-founded Apple
Computer in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976.
By
25, Jobs was a millionaire. Jobs' first go-around at Apple was
highlighted by the creation and introduction, in 1984, of the Macintosh,
a revolutionary personal computer with an inviting graphical
user-interface and mouse that popularized PCs for the masses.
The influence of the Beatles ran deep to Apple's core, too. Jobs presented a Mac to Yoko Ono, wife of the late John Lennon, and was ensnared in a long-running trademark lawsuit with the music group's Apple Corps label. It was settled in 2007.
In
a 1996 interview in San Francisco, Jobs offered a glimpse of his hopes
to mirror the success of Walt Disney and George Lucas. "Computers are
commodities with a six-month shelf life," he said. "Classics like Snow White and Fantasia are passed from generation to generation."
Wozniak said Apple is a reflection of Jobs' creative daring.
"He
helped it achieve incredible things in music, smartphones, tablets and
retail, while still making great computers," said Wozniak, who said he
and Jobs occasionally talk.
Leander Kahney, author of Inside Steve's Brain, said Jobs reconciled conflicting personality traits into an eclectic business philosophy.
"Jobs
embraced the personality traits that some considered flaws —
narcissism, perfectionism, total faith in his intuition — to lead Apple
and Pixar to triumph against steep odds," Kahney says. "In the process,
he became a self-made billionaire."
Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies
updated 7:52 PM EST, Wed October 5, 2011
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Jobs had battled cancer for years
- Jobs founded Apple when he was 21
- He developed the concept of the personal computer and mouse
- He oversaw the launch of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.
"Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism," New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. "His intuition has been phenomenal over the years."
Jobs' death, while dreaded by Apple's legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."
Born February 24, 1955, and then adopted, Jobs grew up in Cupertino, California -- which would become home to Apple's headquarters -- and showed an early interest in electronics. As a teenager, he phoned William Hewlett, president of Hewlett-Packard, to request parts for a school project. He got them, along with an offer of a summer job at HP.
Jobs dropped out of Oregon's Reed College after one semester, although he returned to audit a class in calligraphy, which he says influenced Apple's graceful, minimalist aesthetic. He quit one of his first jobs, designing video games for Atari, to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. Those experiences, Jobs said later, shaped his creative vision.
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future," he told Stanford University graduates during a commencement speech in 2005. "You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
While at HP, Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak, who impressed him with his skill at assembling electronic components. The two later joined a Silicon Valley computer hobbyists club, and when he was 21, Jobs teamed with Wozniak and two other men to launch Apple Computer Inc.
It's long been Silicon Valley legend: Jobs and Wozniak built their first commercial product, the Apple 1, in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.
The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Faire. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was under way.
Jobs was among the first computer engineers to recognize the appeal of the mouse and the graphical interface, which let users operate computers by clicking on images instead of writing text.
Apple's pioneering Macintosh computer launched in early 1984 with a now-iconic, Orwellian-themed Super Bowl ad. The boxy beige Macintosh sold well, but the demanding Jobs clashed frequently with colleagues, and in 1986, he was ousted from Apple after a power struggle.
Then came a 10-year hiatus during which he founded NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on with consumers.
Jobs had more success when he bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before the company made it big with "Toy Story." Jobs brought the same marketing skill to Pixar that he became known for at Apple. His brief but emotional pitch for "Finding Nemo," for example, was a masterful bit of succinct storytelling.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, returning Jobs to the then-struggling company he had co-founded. Within a year, he was running Apple again -- older and perhaps wiser but no less of a perfectionist. And in 2001, he took the stage to introduce the original iPod, the little white device that transformed portable music and kick-started Apple's furious comeback.
Thus began one of the most remarkable second acts in the history of business. Over the next decade, Jobs wowed launch-event audiences, and consumers, with one game-changing hit after another: iTunes (2003), the iPhone (2007), the App Store (2008), and the iPad (2010).
Observers marveled at Jobs' skills as a pitchman, his ability to inspire godlike devotion among Apple "fanboys" (and scorn from PC fans) and his "one more thing" surprise announcements. Time after time, he sold people on a product they didn't know they needed until he invented it. And all this on an official annual salary of $1.
He also built a reputation as a hard-driving, mercurial and sometimes difficult boss who oversaw almost every detail of Apple's products and rejected prototypes that didn't meet his exacting standards.
By the late 2000s, his once-renegade tech company, the David to Microsoft's Goliath, was entrenched at the uppermost tier of American business. Apple now operates more than 300 retail stores in 11 countries. The company has sold more than 275 million iPods, 100 million iPhones and 25 million iPads worldwide.
Jobs' climb to the top was complete in summer 2011, when Apple listed more cash reserves than the U.S. Treasury and even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company.
But Jobs's health problems sometimes cast a shadow over his company's success. In 2004, he announced to his employees that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He lost weight and appeared unusually gaunt at keynote speeches to Apple developers, spurring concerns about his health and fluctuations in the company's stock price. One wire service accidentally published Jobs' obituary.
Jobs had a secret liver transplant in 2009 in Tennessee during a six-month medical leave of absence from Apple. He took another medical leave in January this year. Perhaps mindful of his legacy, he cooperated on his first authorized biography, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in November.
Jobs is survived by his wife of 20 years, Laurene, and four children, including one from a prior relationship.
He always spoke with immense pride about what he and his engineers accomplished at Apple.
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do," he told the Stanford grads in 2005.
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."
Apple Announces Former CEO Steve Jobs Dies at 56
Jobs is a pancreatic cancer survivor.
VIDEO: Watch Brandi Hitt's report
Apple CEO Steve Jobs
(September 9, 2009)
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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple announced Wednesday that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has died.
Jobs stepped down as CEO in August, saying he could no longer handle the job.
In January, Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, took his second medical leave of absence in two years, raising serious questions about his health and the leadership of a company.
Jobs, 55, has been instrumental in turning Apple into the dominant producer of portable music players, a leader in the smart phone business and, with the iPad, the inventor of a new category of modern tablet computers.
He is Apple's public face, its master showman and its savior since he returned in 1997 after a 12-year hiatus to rescue the company from financial ruin.
Investors in recent years have pinned much of their faith in the company on Jobs himself, sending shares tumbling on every bit of news or rumor of his ailing health.
"Steve's extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world's most innovative and valuable technology company," said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple's Board.
"Steve has made countless contributions to Apple's success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple's immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration."
Technology
The business and culture of our digital lives,
from the L.A. Times
Steve Jobs, Apple chairman and co-founder, dies
Apple released a statement Wednesday afternoon announcing that Steve Jobs, its chairman and co-founder, has died.
Apple's statement:
CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.
WRAPUP 3-World mourns Steve Jobs; Apple shares edge higher
* Apple co-founder transformed lives of millions
* Jobs praised as "a dreamer and a doer"
* Apple shares up 1 percent (Updates links to stories, graphics, Breakingviews; updates shares)
By Jennifer Saba
NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Outpourings of public grief and appreciation swept the globe on Thursday after the death of Apple (AAPL.O) co-founder Steve Jobs.
Jobs, who touched the daily lives of countless millions of people through the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, died on Wednesday at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He stepped down as Apple chief executive in August.
Reaction in the stock market was muted as Apple shares quickly recovered from an initial 1.5 percent decline. The shares were up 1 percent to $382.15 at midday.
In New York City, an impromptu memorial made from flowers, candles and a dozen green and red apples was erected outside a 24-hour Apple store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, with fans snapping photos of it on their iPhones.
"It was really sad news for us," said Daiichiro Tashiro, 25, visiting from Tokyo. "A lot of Japanese use the iPhone. We're here to thank him."
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Tributes poured in both from ordinary people and from the pinnacles of the business and political worlds.
"He's the hero to everybody of this generation because he did something that I think is very hard, which is be both a dreamer and a doer," General Electric Co (GE.N) CEO Jeff Immelt told reporters in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday.
"I wouldn't be able to run my business without Apple, without its software," said David Chiverton, who was leaving Apple's flagship Regent Street store in London. "I run a video production company. It's allowed me to have my dream business."
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch said, "Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation."
At an Apple store in Sydney, lawyer George Raptis, who was five years old when he first used a Macintosh computer, spoke for almost everyone who has come into contact with Apple. "He's changed the face of computing," he said. "There will only ever be one Steve Jobs."
U.S. President Barack Obama remembered Jobs as a visionary. "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators -- brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it," Obama said in a statement.
Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Bill Gates, who once triumphed over Jobs but saw his legendary status overtaken by the Apple co-founder in recent years, said, "For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor."
Nokia (NOK1V.HE) CEO Stephen Elop, whose company competes with Apple's iPhone in the handset market, said, "The world lost a true visionary today. Steve's passion for simplicity and elegance leaves us all a legacy that will endure for generations."
When he stepped down as CEO in August, Jobs handed the reins to long-time operations chief Tim Cook. With a passion for minimalist design and a genius for marketing, Jobs laid the groundwork for the company to continue to flourish after his death, most analysts and investors say.
But Apple still faces challenges in the absence of the man who was its chief product designer, marketing guru and salesman nonpareil. Phones running Google's (GOOG.O) Android software are gaining share in the smartphone market, and there are questions about what Apple's next big product will be.
LEGENDARY ENTREPRENEUR
A college drop-out and the son of adoptive parents, Jobs changed the technology world in the late 1970s, when the Apple II became the first personal computer to gain a wide following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which built on breakthrough technologies developed at Xerox Parc and elsewhere to create the personal computing experience as we know it today.
The rebel streak that was central to his persona got him tossed out of Apple in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a few years began the roll-out of a troika of products -- the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad -- that again upended the established order in major industries.
A diagnosis of a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 initially cast only a mild shadow over Jobs and Apple, with the CEO asserting that the disease was treatable. But his health deteriorated rapidly over the past several years, and after two temporary leaves of absence he stepped down as CEO and became Apple's chairman in August.
Jobs's death came just one day after Cook presented a new iPhone at the kind of gala event that became Jobs's trademark. Perhaps coincidentally, the new device got lukewarm reviews, with many saying it wasn't a big enough improvement over the existing version of one of the most successful consumer products in history.
Apple paid homage to its visionary leader by changing its website to a big black-and-white photograph of him with the caption "Steve Jobs: 1955-2011."
On Google's home page, the same line appeared just below its search box. It was a link to the Apple site. (For related stories, see TAKE A LOOK at [ID:nN1E79421F].) (Reporting by Jennifer Saba; additional reporting by Sinead Carew and Liana Baker in New York; Scott Malone in Columbus, Ohio; Sarah McBride in Cupertino, California; Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; Edwin Chan in Los Angeles; Matt Cowan in London; and Amy Pyett in Sydney; editing by John Wallace)
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