Steve Jobs
“Apple has lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”
From the Associated Press | From the New York Times | Time Magazine: The Great Reinventor | From Wired | Bill Gates: “I will miss him immensely.” | Tim Cook memo to staff: No words can express our sadness. | Jobs family: He “died peacefully.” | Walt Mossberg: Jobs on par with Edison, Ford | TechCrunch: End of an era. | John Gruber: “What a life.” | Barack Obama Twitter: “Rest in peace.” Also here.| David Pogue: Always Imitated, Never Duplicated | Andy Ihnatko: A “phenomenal CEO.” | Seth Godin: A Eulogy of Action | Ken Auletta: “Transformative, historical.” | Fred Anderson, former Apple CFO: There will never be another | Dave Winer: “Artists ship.” | Farhad Manjoo: Jobs “Invented our world.” | The Atlantic: Why we mourn Jobs. | CJRW Interactive: “Thank You, Mr. Jobs.” | A look at Steve Jobs’ 300 patents |Former Gizmodo blogger Brian Lam: “Steve Jobs was always kind to me.” | Jobs’ greatest hits | Peter Gabriel, Real World say goodbye. |Dan Frommer: Steve Jobs’ greatest performance.
He did what a CEO should: Hired and inspired great people; managed for the long term, not the quarter or the short-term stock price; made big bets and took big risks. He insisted on the highest product quality and on building things to delight and empower actual users, not intermediaries like corporate IT directors or wireless carriers. And he could sell. Man, he could sell.
Wired website goes black | Time magazine redraws its next cover | Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover | Boing Boing goes retro Mac in tribute | Daring Fireball goes black
Tough balancing act ahead for Apple | Pre-orders soar for Walter Isaacson’s Jobs biography, out Oct. 24.
In Little Rock: Some dudes picked the wrong night to break into the new Apple Store at The Promenade at Chenal. They made off with armloads of products, but not before being seen by some folks there to honor Jobs. Clock’s tickin’, fellas.
Previously: iPhone keynote video gallery | A nice guy | Anil Dash: What they’re “protecting” us from
Steve Jobs: The Crazy Ones
After the jump, the Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University commencement address.
