(Video): First Apple TV Commercial – Steve Jobs Narrates it – it never aired (until now)
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Month: October 2011
Did Apple pay a "quiet tribute" to Steve Jobs during the "Let's Talk iPhone" event?
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While watching Apple’s stream of Tuesday’s iPhone event two nights ago, the video would periodically pan to the same shot of audience members applauding. While I normally wouldn’t have paid much attention to such a thing, the shot in question caught my eye because it centered on an empty seat with a black cloth draped over it, with the word “Reserved” written on it.
Though this transpired one day before Steve Jobs passed away, I was still exceedingly curious. “Who was this reserved seat for?”, I wondered. The CEO of Nuance, maybe? Perhaps a representative from a top development company? But more importantly, I wondered who in the world would get an invite to an Apple iPhone event and not show up?
Looking back, perhaps this was a quiet tribute from Apple executives to Steve Jobs, who likely knew that this would be the last Apple keynote held while Jobs was alive. Indeed, the other folks seated in the row with the reserved seat include top Apple executives Bob Mansfield and Jeff Williams, Apple’s Senior VP of operations.
Following his resignation as CEO of Apple, Jobs reportedly told biographer Walter Isaacson that he knew death was around the corner. It stands to reason that Apple executives were aware of this as well.
And so, I’d like to think that the seat above was reserved for Steve Jobs, who though not able to attend in body, was long in the thoughts of the people he inspired so greatly.
One Twitter user aptly summed it up: “Reserved for Steve Jobs. Now, and forever.”
Via: edibleapple.com
TIME to issue a special "Remembering Steve Jobs" issue
Today, TIME releases a special commemorative issue on Steve Jobs to hit newsstands and tablet devices tomorrow, Friday, October 7.
To produce this special issue, TIME stopped the presses on its previously planned issue in order to devote its cover and 21 pages of the full issue to Jobs’ life and career. The issue includes a six-page essay by Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson, a historical report on Jobs career by TIME technology reporters Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman and a photo essay by Diana Walker, who has been shooting Jobs for TIME since 1982.
The cover image (right, click to enlarge) is a photograph of Jobs taken by Norman Seeff in 1984. This is the seventh time Jobs has appeared on the cover of TIME.
The magazine is increasing its print run for this special issue, which will be available worldwide.
Download the special commemorative cover image here: http://bit.ly/nNOCKK
View all Jobs’ TIME covers here: http://ti.me/d0cFZn
See the latest issue here later today: http://www.time.com/time/magazine
(Video): The Woz remembers Steve Jobs in an AP interview Thurs. morning
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