Apple 'Celebrating Steve' event video now streaming online

Apple Inc. celebrated Steve Jobs' life in a companywide but private event Wednesday, and now video of the tribute is streaming online on Apple's website.

The video, which runs about 80 minutes in length, starts off with Apple CEO Tim Cook speaking of Steve Jobs' life and introducing Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' wife, to a crowd of thousands of Apple employees in an outdoor ceremony at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino.

Huge banners hung from Apple's buildings featuring photos of Jobs throughout his life.

Cook, in his remarks to the crowd, shared quotes from Jobs, including one in which the leader said, "My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business. Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

Cook also said of Jobs, Apple's co-founder and longtime CEO:

I personally admire Steve not most for what he did or what he said but for what he stood for.

The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

Steve never followed the herd. He thought deeply about almost everything and was the most unconventional thinker I have ever known. He always did what he thought was right, not what was easy. He never accepted the merely good. He would only accept great -- insanely great.

Cook, who took over as Apple's CEO when Jobs resigned in August, also noted that Jobs told him that he didn't want Apple to fall into trying to make decisions based on what he would do once he was gone. Instead, he told Cook: "Don't ask what I would do. Don't ask what I would want. Just do what's right."

Apple's lead designer Johnathan Ive spoke at the event, as did former U.S. Vice President and Apple board member Al Gore. Singer Norah Jones and the band Coldplay performed at the event.

Apple temporarily shut down its retail stores for a few hours Wednesday to allow company employees to watch live video of the service, allowing for Apple as a whole to take part in remembering its late leader.

Jobs died on Oct. 5 in his Palo Alto home at age 56 of respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor.

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Steve Jobs admired Mark Zuckerberg for not selling out

Steve Jobs had some kind words for Mark Zuckerberg before he died.

Despite tensions between their two companies, two of Silicon Valley's most famous founders got along, well, rather famously.

As we told you, a year ago the Apple co-founder and Facebook founder had dinner at Jobs' home. Later they strolled the streets of Palo Alto together.

Our sources told us at the time that this get-together was not an isolated meeting of the minds. Jobs often reached out to Zuckerberg, even once with a handwritten note.

In interviews with his biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs said he respected Zuckerberg for not selling out and for dominating social networking.

"You know we talk about social networks in the plural but I don't see anybody other than Facebook out there. It's just Facebook. They're dominating this," he told Isaacson. "I admire Mark Zuckerberg. I only know him a little bit, but I admire him for not selling out. For wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot."

The admiration was mutual. When Jobs died Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Zuckerberg paid tribute on his Facebook profile: "Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you."

Zuckerberg is frequently mentioned as a possible heir apparent to Jobs.

Jobs said he felt an obligation to counsel other entrepreneurs since Silicon Valley gave him so much. Yet he did not dole out praise easily. He told Isaacson that Microsoft and Google "just don't get it."

In his official biography out Monday, Jobs assailed Microsoft's Bill Gates as "unimaginative," saying Gates never invented anything.

He saved his real venom for Google and vowed to destroy its mobile phone business, Android. Jobs had served as a mentor to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and had welcomed Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt to the Apple board. Google went on to launch Android, which is the main competitive threat to the iPhone.

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," he told Isaacson.

"I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Will Apple now run by Tim Cook go thermonuclear on Android? That could spell big trouble for Google, which is trying to shore up its anemic patent portfolio to protect Android.

Jobs did relent in January when Page approached him for advice on succeeding Schmidt as CEO. Jobs told Isaacson that he was tempted to reject Page, but then remembered how Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, counseled him.

His advice: Build a solid executive team, eliminate bureaucracy and narrow Google's focus. And that's exactly what Page has done.

"The main thing I stressed was to focus," Jobs told Isaacson. "Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It's now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest because they're dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out adequate products that are adequate but not great."

Google has finally figured out one way to best Facebook, notes Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand.com.

He says: "It looks like adding a suggested user list to Google+ has finally paid off in solving its 'Mark Zuckerberg problem.' Facebook's CEO is no longer the most popular person on Google+, having just now been passed by Google CEO Larry Page."

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Steve Jobs: 'Lightning bolts went off in my head' about being adopted

"60 Minutes" has released the full transcript of its interview with Steve Jobs' biographer, Walter Isaacson, and the piece contains a number of largely unknown bits about Jobs' early life and adoptive parents, his wife and family, and his illness and thoughts on the afterlife. The show airs Sunday at 7 p.m. on CBS.

Below is an uncorrected excerpt from the beginning of the show in which Isaacson describes Jobs' drive for perfection, and his sometimes fiery lack of patience with people who he felt got in the way of his plans. Isaacson speculates that some of Jobs' personality is related to his feelings about being adopted. The bold sections are from the "60 Minutes" voiceover from reporter Steve Kroft.

WHEN WALTER ISAACSON FIRST BEGAN WORKING ON THE BOOK, WHICH IS PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER, A DIVISION OF CBS, STEVE JOBS’ WIFE, LAURENE POWELL, TOLD HIM, “BE HONEST WITH HIS FAILINGS AND WELL AS HIS STRENGTHS. THERE ARE PARTS OF HIS LIFE AND HIS PERSONALITY THAT ARE EXTREMELY MESSY. YOU SHOULDN’T WHITE WASH IT. I’D LIKE TO SEE THAT IT’S ALL TOLD TRUTHFULLY.”

WALTER ISAACSON WALKING: He’s not warm and fuzzy.

AND TO DO IT, ISAACSON INTERVIEWED MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE—JOBS’ FRIENDS, FAMILY, CO-WORKERS AND COMPETITORS.

KROFT WALKING: I think it’s a tough book.

ISAACSON WALKING: It’s a book that’s fair.  I mean, this is a real human being. 

STEVE KROFT: He had lots of flaws.

WALTER ISAACSON: He was very petulant. He was very brittle. He could be very, very mean to people at times. Whether it was to a waitress in a restaurant, or to a guy who had stayed up all night coding, he could just really just go at them and say, "You're doin' this all wrong. It's horrible." And you'd say, "Why did you do that? Why weren't you nicer?" And he'd say I really want to be with people who demand perfection. And this is who I am."

ISAACSON BELIEVES THAT MUCH OF IT CAN BE TRACED TO THE EARLIEST YEARS OF HIS LIFE, AND TO THE TO THE FACT THAT JOBS BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK, GIVEN UP BY HIS BIRTH PARENTS, AND ADOPTED BY A WORKING CLASS COUPLE FROM MOUNTAIN VIEW, FROM MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA. 

WALTER ISAACSON: Paul Jobs was a salt-of-the-earth guy who was a great mechanic. And he taught his son Steve how to make great things  And he--once they were building a fence. And he said, "You got to make the back of the fence that nobody will see just as good looking as the front of the fence." Even though nobody will see it, you will know, and that will show that you're dedicated to making something perfect." 

JOBS ALWAYS KNEW HE WAS ADOPTED, BUT IT STILL HAD A PROFOUND EFFECT ON HIM. HE TOLD ISAACSON THIS STORY FROM HIS EARLY CHILDHOOD DURING ONE OF THEIR MANY TAPED INTERVIEWS:

STEVE JOBS TAPES: I was, I remember right here on my lawn, telling Lisa McMoylar from across the street that I was adopted. And she said, “So does that mean your real parents didn't want you?” Ooooh, lightning bolts went off in my head. I remember running into the house, I think I was like crying, asking my parents. And they sat me down and they said, “No, you don't understand. We specifically picked you out.”

WALTER ISAACSON: He said, "From then on, I realized that I was not — just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special." And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

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Steve Jobs biography: His thoughts on Android, cancer, Bill Gates

Details of the new Steve Jobs biography, scheduled for release on Monday, have leaked out all around the Web, offering new insights into the life of the Apple co-founder.  We've collected a few of the more interesting tidbits in this post.

The book by Walter Isaacson, called "Steve Jobs," is the result of more than 40 interviews with Jobs by the author over a period of years, including one just weeks before his death two weeks ago. The book touches on Jobs' youth, his battle with cancer, his relationship with his biological parents, and his unvarnished feelings about the mediocrity of his rivals at Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and elsewhere.

On Thursday, we wrote about Isaacson's report that Jobs regretted waiting nine months to have an operation to remove cancer from his pancreas -- a delay that likely allowed the cancer to spread.

"I've asked him" why he didn't get the operation, Isaacson told Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes." "And he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. ... I didn't want to be violated in that way.' I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. It'd worked for him in the past. He regretted it."

Jobs also had unwitting contact with his biological father, a Syrian immigrant named John Jandali -- now a casino manager in Reno. Though the two never realized each others' identities at the time, Jobs apparently ate at a restaurant Jandali managed years ago -- and found out only later, after he learned of the identity of his biological parents.

“When I was looking for my biological mother, obviously, you know, I was looking for my biological father at the same time, and I learned a little bit about him and I didn't like what I learned," Jobs told Isaacson. "I asked her to not tell him that we ever met ... not tell him anything about me."

Jobs has few kind words for the executives that succeeded him after his first reign at Apple, and managed to nearly run the company into the ground.

In the book, he refers to them as "corrupt people" with "corrupt values," according to excerpts reviewed by the Associated Press.  That group was obsessed with profit -- "for themselves mainly, and also for Apple -- rather than making great products."

Jobs also told Isaacson that Jonathan Ive, the company's head designer and a man Jobs called his "spiritual partner," was also among his most powerful successors. Ive had "more operation power" than anyone at Apple besides Jobs -- which was the way Jobs "set it up."

The book also offers some insight into Apple's current patent battles with Google and makers of its Android phones, which he believed ripped off the design and functionality of Apple's blockbuster iPhone.

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said, according to the AP report. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Jobs also had some parting barbs for Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and Jobs' longtime business rival and, later, friend. "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology," Jobs said of Gates. "He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."

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Steve Jobs regretted cancer surgery delay, biographer says [Video]

For months after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2004, Steve Jobs decided to try to treat his illness with eastern-style remedies, rather than surgery.  But delaying that surgery may have cost him his long-term health -- and it was a decision he regretted.

This comes from Jobs' biographer, Walter Isaacson, who will appear in an interview this weekend on "60 Minutes" to discuss Jobs and his upcoming book, "Steve Jobs."

According to Isaacson, Jobs had a "very slow growing" type of pancreatic cancer "that can actually be cured," but still opted not to get the surgery until nine months had gone by and it may have been too late.

"I've asked him" why he didn't get the operation, Isaacson told Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes." "And he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. … I didn't want to be violated in that way.' I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. It'd work for him in the past.  He'd regret it."

Soon, Isaacson says, Jobs' wife and everyone around him convinced him to "quit trying to treat it with all these roots and vegetables and things," he said.  But by then it may have been too late, as the cancer had spread to surrounding tissues.

Isaacson is the only author to whom Jobs gave long-term access, and he conducted more than 40 interviews.  The book is scheduled to come out next week.

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Jack Dorsey emulates Steve Jobs, his 'mentor from afar'

Jack Dorsey has drawn comparisons to Steve Jobs for his innovation with Twitter and Square as well as the purist aesthetic he instills in the products he builds.

As his friend Ashton Kutcher told Vanity Fair in April: "What makes Jack magic is his precision."

Dorsey emulates Jobs' approach to design, a relentless drive for simplicity and quality. He bought his first car, a BMW M3, for the sleek design. In his spare, immaculate apartment, he has a Shaker bench. He wears a Rolex because it's one of the few companies that still manufactures its own parts.

"I love simplifying something down to a base essence," Dorsey said Thursday, speaking on stage at AsiaD in Hong Kong.

He said he tries to design products that disappear when people are using them and called Jobs "a mentor from afar."

What inspired Dorsey most: The way Jobs built Apple.

"A lot of people learn from the surface, the aesthetic," Dorsey said. "What's most fascinating to me is the discipline."

Dorsey got some discipline in a visit to Apple.

In its early days, Square was dubbed Squirrel. Dorsey dreamed up the name for the mobile payments system in the Marin County woods while watching squirrels collect acorns and "squirrel" them away. The prototype for the credit card-reading dongle was made out of wood and was called and shaped like an acorn.

With the dongle in hand, the San Francisco entrepreneur drove down to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., to have lunch with and give a presentation to Apple's honcho in charge of iPhone software, Scott Forstall. That's when he noticed the Apple cafeteria had an internal payment system called, what else, Squirrel Systems.

Dorsey scratched the name and the wood dongle. He looked up squirrel in the dictionary and scrolled through words until he landed on square. The name had the evocative and physical message he wanted: People say they are "square" or they "square up" when settling a debt. That's now also the company's url: squareup.com.

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Steve Jobs memorials on Apple.com, Apple stores close in tribute

Apple Inc. stores closed for a few hours Wednesday as employees took time out of their workday to honor the late Steve Jobs in a company-wide celebration of his life.

The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant reportedly is holding a memorial service for Jobs, who is credited with influencing not only technology and computing, but also American culture, at Apple's headquarters, and its stores were closed to allow employees to watch a live stream of the service.

Apple also updated its website, apple.com, on Wednesday with messages emailed to the company remembering and honoring Jobs.

On Oct. 5, the day Steve Jobs died, Apple turned its website's homepage over to a large black-and-white photo of its iconic co-founder and chairman.

That photo linked to the company's official statement on Jobs' death.

On Wednesday, that photo was changed to link to the messages Apple has received by email to rememberingsteve@apple.com.

At the time that Apple opened up the email address for submissions, Apple didn't say what exactly it would do with the emails it would receive.

Those messages now can be seen scrolling below a new statement from Apple that says:

Over a million people from all over the world have shared their memories, thoughts and feelings about Steve. One thing they all have in common -- from personal friends to colleagues to owners of Apple products -- is how they've been touched by his passion and creativity. You can view some of these messages below.

Among some of the messages Apple has published so far:

I've lost the only friend I had in the computer industry

No one knew what I wanted like Steve Jobs did. He knew how my mind worked- that was his vision thing.

Daniel

Beyond Words

Steve, I have been sitting in front of my MacBook, thinking of what to write to express our appreciation, gratitude towards you........but I just couldn't find the most exact, powerful words........ Your accomplishment is so so great that it's not 'words' can describe.....

George

Thank you Steve!

Dear Steve, Rest in peace. Thank you for bringing me to an iWorld. It has been beautiful for me ever since I purchased an iPod shuffle when I was in primary school. You have made our life so much easier. I am proud of you! Your Stanford speech is my life motivation. You will be missed.

Jay

R.I.P

The world have lost one of the greatest inventor of this time. The man who changed the way of seeing technology. All my thoughts and prayers are with his family. Rest in Peace Steve.

Nicolas

Apple and Mac got me where I am today

From my first Apple 2+ that was with me through grade school to my Mac Classic that I wrote my reports on in high school to my Power Mac 7500 in college. It was Steve's products that produced a college graduate with a degree in electrical engineering. My sincerest condolences and my greatest appreciation and thanks for helping me get to where I am today. You are missed and remembered.

Matt

Steve is Alive

Steve, You're not dead, you live in every piece of your geniality, in every masterpiece you created that is now on the hands of millions. Thank for your legacy. Be in peace.

Marcelo from Brazil

To a personal mentor

Mr. Steve Jobs showed an entire generation how to overcome adversity and remain committed to a vision. Anyone that has followed his career will recall the moments of triumph, but also the setbacks. These setbacks now fade into history and the lesson we can all teach our children is to persevere. A devoted follower since 1984. 

Evin

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Top photo: White curtains hang as employees inside the Lincoln Park Apple store in Chicago gather to watch a video feed from the Cupertino, Calif., memorial service for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on Oct. 19, 2011. Credit: Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press

Bottom photo: A sign announces that a Manhattan Apple store is closed from noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 19, 2011, in New York City. Credit: Mario Tama / Getty Images

Apple stores may close Wednesday in honor of Steve Jobs

Apple stores will reportedly close for about 90 minutes on Wednesday to allow retail employees to watch a webcast of a celebration of Steve Jobs' life at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

The plan, according to Reuters, calls for Apple stores to close to the public from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Pacific time. The event will occur at that time at an outdoor amphitheater at Apple's main campus, Reuters said in its report, which cited anonymous sources.

The event will be re-broadcast later so Apple store employees in Australia and Asia can watch as well, the report said.

Apple officials were unavailable for comment Tuesday afternoon.

The Wednesday memorial service will be the third for Jobs, who reportedly was remembered at a private funeral Friday and a Sunday service at Stanford University attended by celebrities, politicians and top figures in the tech industry.

Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder and an icon of Silicon Valley, died Oct. 5 in his Palo Alto home at age 56.

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Apple iPhone 4S: More than 4 million sold on launch weekend

Apple's iPhone 4S topped 4 million units sold worldwide over its launch weekend.

That staggering sales figure is the highest of any iPhone to date after that initial three-day period, said Apple Inc., which announced the numbers Monday morning in a statement on its website.

The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant also said more than 25 million people have downloaded iOS 5 to their iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches in the five days since its release.

In addition, the company said, more than 20 million people have signed up for iCloud, Apple's free service that syncs data such as calendars, contacts and photos wirelessly across a user's computer and portable Apple gadgets. It also launched just five days ago.

The iPhone 4S' sales figure is "the most ever for a phone and more than double the iPhone 4 launch during its first three days," Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in the company announcement. "iPhone 4S is a hit with customers around the world, and together with iOS 5 and iCloud, is the best iPhone ever."

The previous-generation iPhone 4, launched in June 2010, is Apple's best-selling product; more of the devices have been sold than all earlier versions of the iPhone combined.

On the first day of in-store iPhone 4S sales, Sprint said the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S resulted in its best sales day for any product line it has ever carried. A few analysts weighed in on Friday, projecting that by Sunday night 2 million to 4 million of the new iPhones would have be sold.

More than 1 million iPhone 4S handsets were pre-ordered in the first 24 hours the early orders began, about a week before the device's in-store launch.

The iPhone 4S failed to wow many analysts and pundits when it was revealed on Oct. 4, a day before Apple co-founder and tech icon Steve Jobs died, but it seems that consumers are flocking to the device.

From the outside, the iPhone 4S, which sells for about $200 to as much as $600, looks nearly identical to the iPhone 4, but it features upgraded hardware with a dual-core A5 chip (similar to that found in the iPad 2), a new 8-megapixel camera that can shoot up to 1080p high-definition video.

The software with iOS 5 is also new, adding more than 200 features, most notably (and only available on the iPhone 4S so far) Siri, Apple's voice-activated "intelligent assistant" app that can help dictate text, schedule appointments, check the weather and find locations, all done by a user talking into the phone and telling the app what he or she is looking for.

So far, the iPhone 4S is on sale in the U.S., Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan and Britain. Apple said it will be available in 22 more countries on Oct. 28, and more than 70 countries by the end of the year. In the U.S., the iPhone 4 and 4S are being sold by AT&T, Sprint and Verizon.

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Private memorial to Steve Jobs follows a very public one

A private memorial service for Steve Jobs at the Stanford University campus is scheduled for Sunday evening, with an invite list that includes some of Silicon Valley's biggest luminaries, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Invited guests were asked to respond to Emerson Collective, a philanthropic organization focused on education that was founded by Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, the WSJ reported, citing several invitees and a copy of the invitation.

Apple is also planning an event for employees to celebrate its co-founder's life at the Cupertino headquarters next Wednesday. Jobs was laid to rest last Friday at the Alta Mesa Memorial Park in a private funeral.

Separately, to coincide with the release of the iPhone 4S, an online initiative has dubbed Oct 14 Steve Jobs Day, a memorial that encourages fans to share memories and pay tribute to the technologist.

Created by advertising agency Studiocom Inc., the Steve Jobs Day 2011 website urges people to "sport your black turtleneck, jeans, tennis shoes, and glasses and snap a pic!"

People complied, uploading photos of themselves mimicking Jobs' minimalist style. Copying the now famous photo of Jobs that appeared on the Apple website after his death, many favored a pose with one hand stroking their chin.

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