It's been really touching to see the outpouring of love and support at the local Apple store in Palo Alto -- about a mile and a half from where Steve lived.

Thank you Steve for doing what you loved to do.

You knew Woz's insights were going to be more personal... but it doesn't hit you until he gets emotional. Wow, they must have gone through a lot of shit together, and now Woz is going to miss him.

I can think of no one better to memorialize Steve. Really touching at the end when he tears up at the last second.

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Traffic around Cupertino has been busier than usual as people stop by Apple HQ to pay respects.

Aww...

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/editorial-cartoon/editorial-cartoon-2011-10-07

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I'm not installing a gig of language packs just so I can see what symbol that's supposed to be.

edit: My guess is you're a Mac user and, for you, it's the Apple logo. That one is font-specific, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%2BF8FF, so only Mac users will see it as such.

Couldn't fucking care less about Steve. Why does it seem like the whole world is mourning a CEO who's real talent was selling an Apple Logo, marketing computers as a style symbol...and making people pay for it.

The only part of this video worth watching imo is the last 10 seconds. His death should be mourned in private sincerity by those close to him, not as a CEO, but as a friend/dad/husband. The rest of the world can fuck off.

In other news the Nobel Peace prize winner in medicine died before he could receive his award. Was also pancreatic Cancer. You know. Just some perspective.

I suppose I should "fuck off," given that I wasn't his friend, child, or spouse, given that I wasn't "close to him." Except that I'm not going to fuck off.

Who are you to tell me not to mourn the loss of someone who's served as an inspiration—and dare I say a personal hero—to me and, evidently, to lots of other people? Why does it matter whether or not I knew him personally? I'm not mourning his death because of his abilities as a marketing guru, nor am I mourning his death as a user, per se, of Apple products (though they do enable me to be more creatively productive on a daily basis). I'm mourning his death because he taught me, at a relatively young age, important lessons about disregarding external expectations, about thinking of death as a motivational tool, about the importance of continually reflecting on the direction of my life and my career.

The sentiment you (and lots of others) are expressing—namely that there's a general disingenuousness surrounding the public's mourning of Steve Jobs's death—seems to me to be incredibly presumptuous. And your point about Ralph Steinman, one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is categorically irrelevant. No doubt Ralph Steinman led an inspirational and remarkable life, one that deserves celebration. But he wasn't a public figure in the way that Steve Jobs was; he didn't have the same platform for public speeches and public interviews that made his thoughts readily available to the public at large. (If you were to make some kind of argument that, as a scientist, he ought to have more of a platform for his ideas, then you might have a valid point. But that's not what you expressed.)>> ^Jinx:
His death should be mourned in private sincerity by those close to him, not as a CEO, but as a friend/dad/husband. The rest of the world can fuck off.

Yes, I think this public grief is either insincere or misplaced. Thats a generalisation I know, and there are bound to be exceptions, but for the most part I think its true.

There are famous figures I who's passing would sadden me greatly. Mostly scientists, mostly people that showed me the beauty of reality. The Feynmans and Sagans of today. I suppose in that sense I could rightfully be accused of hypocrisy. If you learnt some life lessons from a speech Steve Jobs made then ok, fair enough, but I mean did it really take him to teach you "memento mori"?

I'm just pissed that a guy can cut all of Apples philanthropic projects, sells overpriced computers in shiny boxes and had above average charisma is suddenly hailed a visionary.

If only Woz could say that about Jobs when Jobs was around. These guys were not best of friends, especially after 1987, despite what this video tries to portray here.