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Apple's chief executive was spotted on Tuesday in Germany, where he took the time to tweet a short remembrance of late colleague Steve Jobs before visiting the offices of infamous German tabloid Bild.
"Remembering Steve, who would have turned 60 today," Cook wrote on Twitter. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do," he added, quoting one of Jobs's most famous phrases.
Jobs was born on this day in 1955, and died of complications related to pancreatic cancer in 2011. He brought Cook to Apple in 1998 and was responsible for anointing the former Compaq executive as his successor.
Cook spent a portion of the day meeting with the editors of German tabloid Bild, though the reason for the face-to-face is unknown. Bild boasts one of the largest circulations in the world, but it is not a publication one would normally associate with Apple — the paper published nude girls on its front page for over a quarter century, and was described by its more serious rival Der Spiegel as "a daily dose of high-resolution soft porn."
The stop in Germany comes as Cook is rumored to be headed for the inauguration of a new Apple research and development center in Israel. The new facility will house nearly 1,000 workers, many of whom came on board with the acquisitions of flash memory maker Anobit and motion sensing company PrimeSense.
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I was in an Apple Store today and the employee didn't know it was Steve Jobs Day. Weird. edit: I like the [B][I]Bild[/I][/B] photo better, from [URL=https://twitter.com/BILD/status/570235421671583745/photo/1]Twitter[/URL]: [IMG ALT=""]http://forums.appleinsider.com/content/type/61/id/55721/width/500/height/1000[/IMG] edit 2: What is that multi-touch table? [IMG ALT=""]http://forums.appleinsider.com/content/type/61/id/55722/width/350/height/700[/IMG][IMG ALT=""]http://forums.appleinsider.com/content/type/61/id/55723/width/350/height/700[/IMG] Video here: [VIDEO]https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/7F3787511D1182019994528169984_3294515e58c.1.5.18423578735857771931.mp4?versionId=d3D58oh1oDQFV6dYI8FOz31wzYDfTbVh[/VIDEO]
I doubt if retail sales associates pay attention to that sort of trivia.
It's unlikely that anyone at a Macy department store knows when Mr. Macy's birthday was, Disney employees remembering Walt's birthday, or a salesman at the local Ford dealership remembering Henry Ford's birthday. Heck, I doubt if most AAPL shareholders know that today's Steve's birthday.
Only Apple fanbois and a few employees remember that sort of stuff. It might earn you a few hundred dollars on Jeopardy, but it's not terribly important in the big picture.
I doubt if retail sales associates pay attention to that sort of trivia.
It's unlikely that anyone at a Macy department store knows when Mr. Macy's birthday was, Disney employees remembering Walt's birthday, or a salesman at the local Ford dealership remembering Henry Ford's birthday. Heck, I doubt if most AAPL shareholders know that today's Steve's birthday.
Only Apple fanbois and a few employees remember that sort of stuff. It might earn you a few hundred dollars on Jeopardy, but it's not terribly important in the big picture.
You're not wrong, but you are kind of cold.
It might be on point to remember that almost none of those "employees" were alive when the icons you mention were active aside from Jobs, or even when they died (with the exception of Disney for the oldest ones). And I think it's fair to say that we are currently embroiled most directly with Jobs' contributions and influences, the others having sort of faded into generic semi-obscurity.
[quote name="mpantone" url="/t/184924/tim-cook-commemorates-steve-jobss-birthday-on-trip-to-germany#post_2680508"]I doubt if retail sales associates pay attention to that sort of trivia. It's unlikely that anyone at a Macy department store knows when Mr. Macy's birthday was, Disney employees remembering Walt's birthday, or a salesman at the local Ford dealership remembering Henry Ford's birthday. Heck, I doubt if most AAPL shareholders know that today's Steve's birthday. Only Apple fanbois and a few employees remember that sort of stuff. It might earn you a few hundred dollars on Jeopardy, but it's not terribly important in the big picture. [/quote] The difference is most of those people died before the majority of employees at those companies were born. Jobs hasn't even been gone four years yet.
Whatever you do, Tim, don't mention the war.