Today Apple stores will close for a few hours as employees watch a webcast of a company-wide memorial service to celebrate the life of the co-founder.
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Sunday evening at Stanford University's Memorial Church, a memorial service commemorated Apple's late co-founder Steve Jobs. A small private funeral was held earlier for family and close friends. In a private ceremony, he was buried at a non-denominational cemetery. Governor Jerry Brown of California declared Sunday as "Steve Jobs Day". A company memorial is scheduled today, Wednesday Oct. 19.
Mr. Jobs struggled for years with pancreatic cancer, has been credited as a visionary. He ushered a string of successful products, including the iPad the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and Apple's iTunes music store. Steve Jobs masterminded Apple's U-turn from approaching bankruptcy in 1996. He turned it into the world's most highly treasured technology company.
The innovative iPad is used here at the college for 50% academic and 50% leisure purposes by students, faculty and staff. We can't keep these devices on the shelf. I'm not quite sure what technology would be like without Mr. Jobs' mix of extreme creativity and technology. He has truly brought us into the future of not only the iPad technology, but giving others his contagious enthusiasm, energy and drive to excel.
Even at our state college library we are re-thinking how we can assist students by adding eTextbooks to these exceptional devices. We can only hope Steve Jobs' insanely different creativity will continue to be cultivated in others. Mr. Jobs will be a very challenging act to follow.
Steve Jobs Seven Rules of Success
Do what you love
Put a dent in the universe
Make connections
Say no to 1,000 things
Create insanely different experiences
Master the message
Sell dreams, not products
Quote from this article by Carmine Gallo 10/17/2011 Entrepreneur.com
"There's one story that I think sums up Jobs' career at Apple. An executive who had the job of reinventing the Disney Store once called up Jobs and asked for advice. His counsel? Dream bigger. I think that's the best advice he could leave us with. See genius in your craziness, believe in yourself, believe in your vision, and be constantly prepared to defend those ideas."
