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Memorial Service for Steve Jobs Brings Tributes from Family and Friends

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Memorial services for Steve Jobs continued over the weekend, with one arranged for family and friends at Stanford University's Memorial Church drawing a number of high-profile personalities to celebrate Jobs' life. According to The Wall Street Journal, the service included remarks from a number of Jobs' family members, as well as close friend and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Apple design guru Jony Ive.
Steve Jobs's widow Laurene Powell Jobs, sister Mona Simpson and three of his children spoke at the memorial service held for the Apple co-founder on Sunday, according to two people who attended.

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Both people who attended described the service as incredibly moving and a fitting tribute to Mr. Jobs, who was known as a tech visionary, demanding boss and a fanatic for design. One person mentioned that many speakers cracked jokes about Mr. Jobs, who died on Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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The report notes that music for the service was provided by cellist Yo Yo Ma, folk singer Joan Baez, and U2 singer Bono, who read lyrics from an iPad.

Jobs' private funeral was held two days after his death earlier this month and an event for Apple employees will be held this Wednesday. That event will reportedly include a temporary closure of Apple's retail stores to allow employees to view a live webcast of the service.

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What's amazing...

is the impact he made over so many years over so many innovations for so many products: computing, music player, phone and tablet.

Just one would make you a legend for the achievement and wealthy enough to do everything you want for your family. That doesn't even touch on NEXT and Pixar.

The kind of person on one of those would be a difficult personality with the perfectionism and attention to details. Steve must have been all that squared.

But what he gave us all, that's simply amazing.

Thanks Steve, on wherever OS you are flying. God bless you and your family.
You leave an unmatchable legacy and thanks so very much for it.
 
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Steve Jobs changed the world of personal computers and how we use them today. I started with mac long time ago and have new looked back. It not all about Steve but he was a big drive in Apple. I hope Apple will continue to be awesome and make a change...

We will miss you Steve! Many warm wishes to his family and friends that have had a tremendous loss.
 
Russell L said:
Saw a report on this event on the local news last night. Here's the vid:

http://www.ktvu.com/index.html

Select "STANFORD: Private memorial held for Steve Jobs" under "KTVU Video Reports" in the right-hand column of the page.

Thanks for everything, Steve! R.I.P....
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Thanks for the link. Don't know why they had to stick that bit in with the women whining about not being treated the same as the super rich and famous when she is just a passer by.
 
It seems to me that this all has been handled with dignity and good taste.

Too many funerals, memorials, tributes, and the like are media circuses. Jobs funeral and memorial services were, appropriately, private and intended for family and close friends.

I'm afraid I must disagree with those who want it streamed or otherwise dumped into the public domain. To put it into that context diminishes the dignity of the event. Some things just don't belong online.

Let those close to him grieve in private...




RIP
 
MacRumors said:
The report notes that music for the service was provided by cellist Yo Yo Ma, folk singer Joan Baez, and U2 singer Bono, who read lyrics from an iPad.
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You'd think that they'd get Bono to sing the lyrics from an iPad.
 
Shrink said:
It seems to me that this all has been handled with dignity and good taste.

Too many funerals, memorials, tributes, and the like are media circuses. Jobs funeral and memorial services were, appropriately, private and intended for family and close friends.

I'm afraid I must disagree with those who want it streamed or otherwise dumped into the public domain. To put it into that context diminishes the dignity of the event. Some things just don't belong online.

Let those close to him grieve in private...

RIP
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Can't agree more ... This decision was to be made by his family (and I'm sure by him before) and is perfectly fine. We have to accept and respect that.
 
What's really amazing

is that he was speeding up!

iMac, iPod, Mac on Intel, iTunes, iPhone, iPad, iCloud... he knew the time was limited.
 
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