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On the first anniversary of his passing, Apple has converted the front page usually monopolized by the latest shiny gadgets to a tribute to its late co-founder and CEO. “Remembering Steve” cycles through some iconic images and moments in the tech pioneer’s life, including the memorable launches of the iMac and iPhone. It’s a touching tribute, coupled with a hopeful note from his successor, Tim Cook, who asks the rest of us to reflect on Jobs’ life, while adding that he considers the company’s current output a tribute to his “memory and everything he stood for.”

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Apple has revealed a video tribute to Steve Jobs, to mark the one year anniversary of his death, complete with a personal message from CEO Tim Cook describing the company as “one of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world.” The video, which has taken over the homepage of Apple’s site today, chronicles the various high-profile and in many cases pivotal launches Jobs made as head of the company, including the iPhone, iMac, and iPod.

Each of those launches marked a turning point in the consumer electronics industry, reframing the world of smartphones, home computing, and portable music. “No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself” Cook writes in his open letter, and going on to describe more recent launches since Steve’s death as “a wonderful tribute” to what the outspoken chief exec stood for.

Although a contentious figure in the electronics world, and one who refused to accept compromise in many ways, Jobs has been widely recognized by Apple fans and rivals alike as having a huge impact on the industry. His attitudes towards quality, usability, and design have left Apple is a privileged place when it comes to value and success, at odds with the struggles other firms are facing.

There’s more on Steve Jobs in our original memorial post, and Tim Cook’s message is below.

 Tim Cook’s message:

A message from Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

Steve’s passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that today everyone will reflect on his extraordinary life and the many ways he made the world a better place.

One of the greatest gifts Steve gave to the world is Apple. No company has ever inspired such creativity or set such high standards for itself. Our values originated from Steve and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple. We share the great privilege and responsibility of carrying his legacy into the future.

I’m incredibly proud of the work we are doing, delivering products that our customers love and dreaming up new ones that will delight them down the road. It’s a wonderful tribute to Steve’s memory and everything he stood for.

– Tim

Apple remembers Steve Jobs with video tribute is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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From a casette tape recovered this week by Marcel Brown of Steve Jobs speaking at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen comes an interview that reveals several baffling predictions from the Apple co-founder. It was John Celuch of Inland Design who possessed this tape up until just recently, each of the attendees of the speech receiving said speech (and Q and A) on the tape you see here – rather lovely, isn’t it? This tape has the number 20 on it, this leading us to believe that there may have been a limited amount of these tapes created – but it’s moot now as the internet spreads the love in a wide way.

Below you’re going to see a SoundCloud presentation of the audio from this interview with Steve Jobs. It’s interesting to note that this conference also had a strange Time Capsule burying ceremony that Jobs contributed to – we’re not yet aware of what’s happened to the capsule, but it’s certainly going to be interesting when the revelation is made. Back when this recording was made there was no Apple Macintosh, the Apple II series was the top computer on the market, and Jobs would leave Apple just 3 years later to start NeXT. The Apple Lisa was their next big thing.

Jobs speaks on voice recognition, early networking, and predicts that it’d be 5 years before office networking would be working at a usable level and 10 to 15 years before home networking would be solved. He predicts that we’d be having portable computers that’d be able to pick up information anywhere with radio links and that in a few years people would be spending more time with their personal computers than with their automobiles. Jobs also drops a lovely bit of foresight on Apple’s strategy at the time.”

“[Apple’s strategy is to] put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes.” – Jobs

He added that these computers would connect via “radio link” so people would not have to hook up to anything to communicate with “larger databases” and computers everywhere. He speaks about how the record industry will change as the software industry changes, removing the need for brick-and-mortar stores altogether. Imagine that!

Listen in and let us know what you think about this hidden gem!

Steve Jobs interview from 1983 uncovered with spot-on predictions for the future is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We have an explanation on how Apple became so successful: Steve Jobs might’ve been from the future. That’s not true, of course, but to hear him nail so many predictions about modern technology back in 1983 it begins to feel like the only explanation. More »

As Steve Jobs’ legacy continues through the products he had a hand in, so too does his memory stick around through a vast collection of stories worth retelling, like the one being told this week about his first appearance at an Apple Store in Palo Alto. This story comes from an Apple and NeXT-related collection being released imminently in Forbes by Connie Guglielmo who, in some cases, experienced Jobs-related events she tells about in person. The story about the Scuff Marks bears retelling as it’s little more than black marks on a floor that spur the wrath of Jobs back in 2004.

A brand new “mini” store is being opened at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, and Steve Jobs is set to help unveil the space, full with a new concept for a store that includes white ceilings with backlighting, stainless-steel walls with holes that look like the PowerMac G5, and a white floor as well. The problem with the makeup of the room was that it didn’t account well for real-world use – at least not as far as fingerprints and scuffs went.

Jobs noted that the floor was made with “material used in aircraft hangars” at the time, but it didn’t all add up – Jobs refused to be a part of the curtain undraping and greet with reporters. The store had handprints galore and black scuff marks all over the floor from the people making the presentation ready for prime time.

Jobs was convinced somehow or another to eventually agree to do the unveiling, and as Guglielmo notes:

“When I saw the floor, I immediately turned to Jobs, standing next to me, and asked if he had been involved in every aspect of the design. He said yes. “It was obvious that whoever designed the store had never cleaned a floor in their life,” I told him. He narrowed his eyes at me and stepped inside.” – Guglielmo

Guglielmo also notes that she’d heard several months later from an Apple executive that Jobs later had the designers of the store repent, so to speak. After the store opened on a Saturday, the designers all had to spend the night “on their hands and knees” cleaning the floor of all scuffs. It would seem that the stone tiles that exist in most Apple stores now are in place due in no small part to this incident.

Steve Jobs anecdotes continue with Scuff Marks breakdown is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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