Malcolm Owen
Apple CEO Tim Cook has marked the 8th anniversary of the passing of company co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs with a post to Twitter, publishing a photograph of the luminary outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store.
Posted to Twitter on Saturday morning, Cook quotes Steve Jobs in his piece, writing "The most precious resource we all have is time." Cook goes on to tell Jobs posthumously "Remembering you always."
Steve Jobs passed away at around 3pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at his Palo Alto home, aged 56. The death was caused by pancreatic cancer, a rare illness Jobs fought against since he was 49, and one that prompted an extended leave of absence from Apple in 2009 to undergo a liver transplant. He later stepped down from his role at Apple in August 2011.
"The most precious resource we all have is time." - SJ. Remembering you always. pic.twitter.com/nsUUiFzZnz
— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) October 5, 2019
The choice of the accompanying photograph of Jobs is apt, as it is of the Apple logo within the famous glass cube of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York. The retail outlet recently reopened following an extensive two-year refurbishment, which saw the underground store expanded in size, and the Cube itself was temporarily removed and reworked at an estimated cost of $2 million.
Jobs originally opened Apple Fifth Avenue in 2006, and since then it has received over 57 million visitors.
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Like the great industrialists of the 19th century the tech titans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries will be remembered in the history books forever. Steve Jobs will be at the top of the list of both the good and the bad. Like Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates will be both celebrated and vilified for putting their respective dents in the universe.
Some may carp about the fact that these titans could not have accomplished what they did without the scientists and inventors who made the technology they used possible. While that may be true the technology is useless until someone like Jobs or Gates takes it to market and makes it available to society and the common man.
Now get you head out of your f@cking smartphone and live life.
The iPhone will turn out to be the greatest invention of the early 21st century. It has revolutionized society in many ways...from social movements to politics to how we think about lodging, transportation, shopping, relationships, etc. It has even changed how we think in a fundamental fashion IMHO. The internet promised many things good and bad, but it was the iPhone that delivered it. We are still sorting out how to control its power in our lives.