Apple to Hold Private Celebration of Steve Jobs' Life on October 19th

[cvaldes]

Apple really can't control the actions of 40,000+ employees. It's not that Apple is complicitly approving these internal e-mails to be public.

 

[castlema]

I do still wonder about the empty chair, marked "reserved", at the iPhone announcement. I know there was a lot of criticism that the event was not as good as previous ones but I have to wonder if Tim Cook and many of the other people who were on stage would look at that chair, knowing it was reserved for Steve Jobs, and having some idea about how near the end was for him not be at the top of their game that day. I know that the show must go on, but knowledge of how close to the end things were had to rattle them.

 

[cvaldes]

Apple had alerted the Palo Alto Police Department several days prior that his death was imminent.

It's quite possible that Steve was in a coma on the day of the announcement and the senior execs knew it. We will probably never know and I hope he was made as comfortable as possible those final days.

 

[tigress666]

I hope they do show up to the wrong funeral some day, like a famous MMA fighter or boxer and have their asses handed to them.

They would like that honestly. They make their money by sueing people and the whole point of offending people is to make them do stuff they can get sued for. You do realize the guy who started the church (or head guy) is a lawyer?

The best way to make them go away is to not give them any attention. They are pretty much the equivalent of real life trolls. I can't remember the group name but there is a group of bikers who tend to show up at at least soldier funerals to fend off the church who are pretty good about knowing how to handle them (on some motorcycle forum I'm on they were calling for help and grooming people on how to handle themselves around the church member such as resisting the urge to hit them cause that's what they're trying to get you to do).

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I believe a fitting tribute would be for Apple to introduce a special "memorial" line of products with Steve Jobs signature etched into the case(s).
I am quite sure they would be well received by the buying public.
How about it, Tim?

I'm sure that would be tacky and seen as them trying to cash in on some guy's death. Even worse, trying to cash in on a death of some one that is supposed to be close to the company.

I would consider that very tacky myself and be disappointed in Apple if they did that.

 

[firewood]

Wonder what the dress code is?

There were many people wearing dark suits at the memorial service for another Apple employee a few years back.

 

[cvaldes]

I've never been to a memorial service with a dress code. Choice of attire has always been left up to the invitee, and as a native Californian, I've seen a wide variety of outfits at such events.

That said, Apple is a Silicon Valley company that pioneered casualness, amongst other things. They were anti-establishment, anti-stuffed shirt. Steve didn't want the company to be called something like International Business Machines, Control Data, Digital Equipment Corporation; he named it after a fruit and gave it a friendly multi-colored logo.

In the Seventies, IBM engineers were expected to wear a shirt and tie to work. Apple was the opposite. Steve brought jeans and sneakers to the Valley, made it more like a college campus than some stodgy office. Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Facebook in jeans and a hoodie because of Steve.

There is no way that Apple would have a dress code for Steve's memorial service. It would go against everything Steve stood for.

If some Apple employees choose to attend the service in dark suits, that's totally their choice and Steve would have been cool with it, but then again, he'd be cool with the guy in the aloha shirt too.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Apple had alerted the Palo Alto Police Department several days prior that his death was imminent.

To what end?

 

[cvaldes]

They were concerned that people might mob the house after his death was announced. The Jobs house is in the residential Old Palo Alto neighborhood and anyone can walk up to the front door; it's not a gated community with a security guard. They welcomed trick-or-treaters every Halloween, just like the rest of the houses in the neighborhood.

Steve used to walk around his neighborhood, just like anyone else.

While he kept his personal life very private, Steve wasn't a paranoid recluse. He could have easily moved to Atherton and into a house with a long driveway, tall fences and an automatic gate with an intercom, but that wasn't Steve's style.

 

[entatlrg]

Having never met the man, his passing has been, for me, unusually upsetting, to a degree that I have to admit has unsettled me.

Thank you for saying that. I've been looking for the right words to explain how I feel, you said it very well.

 

[Appleind]

thank you for saying that. I've been looking for the right words to explain how i feel, you said it very well.

+1

 

[sammall]

They were concerned that people might mob the house after his death was announced. The Jobs house is in the residential Old Palo Alto neighborhood and anyone can walk up to the front door; it's not a gated community with a security guard. They welcomed trick-or-treaters every Halloween, just like the rest of the houses in the neighborhood.

Steve used to walk around his neighborhood, just like anyone else.

While he kept his personal life very private, Steve wasn't a paranoid recluse. He could have easily moved to Atherton and into a house with a long driveway, tall fences and an automatic gate with an intercom, but that wasn't Steve's style.

I didn't know this.

 

[smallnshort247]

All those Apples are going to start smelling sooner or later.

 

[JimmyD11]

Best wish for the future of apple I've heard yet!

To all the speculators about Apples future this quote summed up my feelings perfectly.

Its from the grassroots effort going on here:
http://www.nhwellnesscenters.com/stevejobs/

In the coming weeks and months there will be a lot of speculation about the future fate of Apple, but I have a wish for both you and Apple.

My wish for Apple is that they not try to assure stockholders that they will be fine without Steve Jobs.

My wish is that they not play WWSJD?.

My wish for Apple is that they not try to reassure anyone that they are still cutting edge visionaries.

My wish for Apple is that they be their own Apple -- to follow Steve’s advice and not live anyone else’s life – not Steve’s, not Wall Streets’, and not the bloggers and thousands of people who will speculate about Apple’s future.

My wish for you is the same.​

 

[antmit]

Having never met the man, his passing has been, for me, unusually upsetting, to a degree that I have to admit has unsettled me.

Completely agree and the same is true for me. I always considered SJ to be something of a hero, whilst of course being aware that he was a master of marketing (among many other things) and that the natural byproduct is to relieve me of more cash. That tactic has worked very well in their favour over the last 4 years.

But it was more than that. It was his passion, his determination, his willingness to take something that had failed or wasn't living to its potential, rethink it from the ground up, then tell his talented staff to go and make it a reality.

He'll be sorely missed, and the thought of that continues to upset me even now.

RIP Steve

 

[Ropie]

Having never met the man, his passing has been, for me, unusually upsetting, to a degree that I have to admit has unsettled me.

I'm with you on that too - every time I click a 'jelly button' I feel a small pang of loss I think there's something wrong with me..

 

[casey-mahoney]

Steve Jobs was brilliant

I was upset to find out he died.I got to shake his hand one time and had a few words with him.He has touched every life on this planet.

I was amazed watching facebook and twitter the day he died.

Casey Mahoney