Who Was Steve Jobs? (10 page)

It was October 5, 2011.

All over the world, people mourned the news. Apple stores were covered in sticky notes thanking Steve for all he’d done. People left bitten apples
on the ground in tribute. In California, young people placed candles in the shape of Apple’s logo on the sidewalk.

Everyone felt that Steve Jobs had changed the way they lived. He hadn’t invented the computer or the mouse or the MP3 player. But he took those things and made them part of everyone’s daily life. He had done exactly what he set out to do. He had achieved his dreams.

One of the first people to speak about his death was his old friend and competitor Bill Gates. He said, “For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor.”

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Newsweek
, November 7, 2011.

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Newsweek,
November 7, 2011.

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The New Yorker,
November 14, 2011.

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Time Magazine
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Time Magazine
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Isaacson, Walter.
Steve Jobs.
Simon and Schuster. New York. 2011.

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Newsweek
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Newsweek
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Moritz, Michael.
Return to the Little Kingdom: Steve Jobs, the Creation of Apple, and How It Changed the World.
The Overlook Press. New York. 2009.

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Sheen, Barbara.
People in the News: Steve Jobs
. Gale Cengage Learning. Farmington Hills, Michigan. 2009.

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People Magazine
, October 24, 2011.

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Venezia, Mike.
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers
. Scholastic. New York. 2010.

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