Michal Marek It's been four years since Apple co-founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs passed away. This visionary of historical proportions is still remembered all over the world. In the Cupertino company, which has been led by Tim Cook ever since Jobs' health deteriorated, memories of the "founding father" are of course even more vivid and intense.
To mark the anniversary of Jobs' death, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to all employees in which he paid tribute to his former boss and praised his visionary work. Among other things, Cook also reminds employees that Jobs' office remains intact. In the e-mail, there is also Cook's incentive towards employees to search for the kind of person Jobs was. For example, personal memories of Jobs, which some employees wrote on the internal AppleWeb network, help them to do this.
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Today marks four years since Steve left. That was the day the world lost its visionary. We at Apple have lost a leader, a mentor, and many of us have also lost a dear friend. Steve was a brilliant person, but his priorities were very simple. Above all, he loved his family, he loved Apple, and he loved the people he worked so closely with and accomplished so much with.
Every year since his passing, I remind everyone in our Apple community that we share the privilege and responsibility of continuing the work that Steve loved so much.
What is his legacy? I see him all around me: a great team that embodies his spirit of innovation and creativity. The best products in the world, loved by customers and powering hundreds of millions of people around the world. Experiences of surprise and delight. A society that only he could create. A company with a strong commitment to change the world for the better.
And of course the joy he brought to his loved ones.
He told me many times during his last years that he hoped to live long enough to witness some important milestones in his children's lives. It was with Laurene and their youngest daughter during the summer in his office. His children's messages and drawings are still there on the whiteboard in Steve's office.
If you didn't know Steve, you probably worked with someone who did, or who was at Apple when Steve was leading it. Please stop by one of us and ask what Steve was really like. Several of us have posted our personal memories of him on AppleWeb, and I encourage you to read them.
Thank you for honoring Steve by continuing the work he started and remembering the man he was and what he stood for.
Tim
Tim Cook also remembered Jobs on Twitter, where he also said that Apple continues the work that Steve Jobs loved so much.
Remembering Steve for who he was and what he stood for. We honor him by continuing the work he loved so much. pic.twitter.com/6UiXBjYe3l
- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) October 5, 2015
RIP Steve.
dictator, egotist and egocentric. I'm glad we have it here. even if many people will criticize him because I don't understand how he finally moved the tune. stay here steve so apple is now like microsoft... and indeed even microsoft has already moved on. it was a blessing in disguise for apple. it looks like fear is no longer the rule at Apple, but natural authority.
It would be good if you could at least forgive your stupidity at Jobs's birthday. You may be a local Saxon, but everything has its limits.
I'm always right. Again, don't live that Jobs like that. Jobs was sitting on Apple like a zaba on a spring.
I wouldn't see it so dramatically... Jobs was a visionary and there would be no iPhone without her... and Apple would be paid somewhere in the middle class of computer companies... it's like Masaryk and Benes... Masaryk won Czechoslovakia for us in America because he was a personality and a visionary and he chose Benes as a developer of calm forces... and so it is with jobs and cooks....
Whatever he wanted, he managed to make Apple twice from nothing to one of the most important companies. Although he was probably an egomaniac, thanks to his perfectionism he was able to create great things. – through teams he had impossible demands on. That he sometimes destroyed the lives of individuals in the process is another matter.
I personally prefer him to Cook.
every leader has its expiration time, Steve was in the right place after '97 until 2011, Tim quite a good choice as his successor