Steve Jobs' last words from Mona Simpson's eulogy

 
(CBS) - Nearly a month after the death of Steve Jobs, many of us are still reflecting on his life and legacy.
The Sunday New York Times published the eulogy delivered on Oct. 16 by Steve Jobs' sister, Mona Simpson, at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University.
"I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him. They're not periods of years, but of states of being. His full life. His illness. His dying," said Simpson in her eulogy.
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Some of the things she learned about him was the conscious effort that Jobs put into everything he did in life. She would write that he was "never embarrassed to work hard." Simpson wrote of how Jobs was never ashamed of failure. And how her brother "cultivated whimsy."
"He tried. He always, always tried, and always with love at the core of that effort," said Simpson. She shared the story of how of Jobs learned to walk again, following his liver transplant.
The stories that Mona Simpson shared of her brother are a sweet tribute and give us an intimate glimpse into a softer side of Jobs.
Describing what she learned from his passing, Simpson said, "death didn't happen to Steve, he achieved it."
While he's rapidly becoming a legend on par with the likes of John Lennon or Benjamin Franklin, Simpson's eulogy reminds us that Jobs was only a man. It was the effort Jobs put into life that enabled him to reach great heights.
Steve Jobs' final words were, "OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
Simpson is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and writer of the novel "Anywhere But Here."

Analysts Downplay Apple Stock Dip on Jobs Resignation

Apple stock dipped as much as 7.39 percent Wednesday, stripping $24 billion from its market cap in after-hours trading, after its iconic leader Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down as CEO amid longstanding health concerns.

Under Jobs, whose vision is credited with delivering an unprecedented string of breakthrough products from the Apple II to the iPad, Apple had surged from near bankruptcy in the late 1990s to the most valuable company in the world this month, briefly topping Exxon Mobile. Along the way, it eclipsed long time rival Microsoft, and it most recent adversary, Google. It had closed the day at $376.18, up 0.69% from yesterday, before sliding on the news.

Analysts downplayed the drop, noting that Jobs was long expected to step away from the CEO role. “Frankly it removes an overhang. People didn’t know when this would happen or when the day would come. It’s probably the best outcome,” Michael Walker, Portfolio Manager for WP Stewart told Reuters.

Ultimately, Walker said, the market had already priced Jobs’ departure into the stock. On Jan. 17, he took a medical leave of absence — he’d previously been diagnosed with of a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 underwent a liver transplant.

Still, the move brings to a close an era, capping one of the biggest business comebacks in history. Jobs was fired from the company he founded in 1985, then invited back to run it as it foundered on the brink of bankruptcy. In 1997, right after Jobs got his job back, Michael Dell was asked what would he do to fix it. He famously answered “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

Since then, Apple’s success on the back of winning products from the iMac to the iPod, iPhone and iPad has become a business legend. At one point of the end of July the cash on hand available to Apple, or its liquidity, exceeded that of the U.S. Government. The guys at Cupertino could count on $76 billion in their wallet, whereas Washington couldn’t reach deeper in their pockets than $74 billion.

Now the question is how the company can continue its winning streak under new leadership. In his resignation letter, Jobs gave a strong recommendation for COO Tim Cook, a man known more for operational expertise than vision, to be appointed as his replacement. The board accepted the recommendation and appointed Cook as Jobs’ successor. Jobs will serve as chairman of the board.

“I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role,” Jobs wrote in a letter announcing his resignation.

Steve Jobs Announces Apple iCloud Service, Gets Ovation for Appearing

 
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today appeared at a software developers' conference in San Francisco to introduce a new operating system called Lion and a wireless service called iCloud, but his mere presence at the event dwarfed the announcement itself.
After several years of stories about his failing health and the self-imposed medical leave of absence he announced earlier this year, he got a standing ovation just for being there.
"We love you," shouted someone in the crowd.
"I appreciate it very much," Jobs answered.
Jobs, the mastermind behind the iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTunes and so much more of the iconic company's identity, has become such a looming figure in popular technology that you'd think he invented the apple, not just headed the company.
People emailing or Tweeting from the conference said he looked gaunt, though
Jobs "looks extremely thin," ABC News correspondent Neil Karlinsky wrote in email from the audience, but added, "He's walking steadily and seems to have energy."
Macrumorslive.com, a website that covers Apple full-time, commented, "Steve sounds... exasperated. Weirdly quiet and not as energetic."
Jobs didn't stay long, commanding the stage for approximately 3 minutes. "Today we're going to talk about software," he said, before handing off to Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing.
Schiller and colleagues showed how the Lion operating system, on a properly-equipped computer, could offer the same kind of touch-to-activate features one finds on the iPad tablet. He said it offers 250 new features.
Jobs returned to the stage to introduce iCloud, a service he said would make it possible for users to access photos, music, documents and other content at any time from any device. He demonstrated how photos taken with an iPhone were visible on a user's iPad moments later.
ICloud, which will be free initially, replaces an earlier Apple service, MobileMe, which Jobs called "not our finest hour."
Many users of Apple devices had been frustrated that if, for example, they bought a piece of music from Apple's iTunes store, they were limited in how many places they could store it -- and in trouble if their iPod or MacBook computer broke down or was lost. The iCloud, Apple said, will solve such issues.
The service will integrate what you can get on different Apple devices, the company said. If you've been reading a book on an iPad, Jobs said, you can open it on an iPhone -- and the bookmark to show your place will open with it.
Personal photos, the company said, will not be kept permanently on Internet servers. After 30 days they will need to be downloaded to one's own devices, because they consume large amounts of computer memory.
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Immediate reaction to the new offerings was positive, but many in the crowd of 5,200 were still reacting to Jobs himself, who wore a trademark black mock turtleneck and blue jeans.