Wednesday was a sad day for many in the tech world, due to Apple founder Steve Jobs' passing at the age of 56. It didn't necessarily come as a surprise, because Jobs had been fighting a well-publicized battle with pancreatic cancer for several years, but the tragic news led to a widespread outpouring of grief and rememberances both online and off.
For many, the death of Steve Jobs truly represents the end of an era.
YCN helped Yahoo! celebrate the life and career of the tech pioneer with a collection of memories and reflections from our contributors, all focusing on the role Jobs played in contributors' own technology use. The roundup was featured on the Yahoo! front page last night as part of their obituary package, and made later appearances on both Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Finance.
Yesterday wasn't a happy news day, to be sure, but this package is yet another example of how the YCN community contributes to Yahoo!'s coverage of breaking news events. We are proud to have played a role in remembering a truly visionary leader and iconic figure in the technology world. Our thoughts remain with the family of Steve Jobs as they grieve the loss of a remarkable individual.
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I whole-heartedly agree with Daniel Cunningham. I'm nowhere near a "successful" businessman, yet I can see things that most people cannot. Steve Jobs was an exception. He is being compared to Beethoven and Mozart! I hope to even aspire to half of his level of ambition, knowledge, and awesomeness. This Capitalist knew technology inside and out. Jobs is greatly missed, and will continue to for the unforeseeable future:)
Steve Jobs, really a great man having wonderful mind, he might should not dead for few more years.
missed him a lot 3
I miss you already.
His "visions" was mostly taken from other people's ideas. Any visions he had was from his days of doing LSD. I have worked in the computer industry since 1979 and proud to say Apple never got one cent of business from me. Apple could have never existed and no one in the computer would have noticed or been lesser for it.
thank you mr. job i miss you
A real innovator and visionary. His legacy lives on, for sure.
Goodbye Mr. Steve you are the creative person :)
Have to agree with Michael Segers :) He was definitely a visionary, very talented and created incredible things which impacted many people on the planet, whether they bought Apple products or not (I don't). But......many people say he treated his employees like dirt and wasn't a particularly nice person, so I don't think I'd be elevating him to god-like status just yet.
I believe Steve Jobs was a free thinker. His thoughts were respected and honored.
as a result he was able to steer us in a direction of acheivement and progress in our
own lives.
To the family and friends, we are sorry for your great loss.
We will miss you, Steve Jobs.
God Bless you.