Apple co-founder Steve Jobs death: tributes pour in

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Apple's corporate statement announcing the death of 56-year old co-founder Steve Jobs was brief: "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.


Many technology experts, industry peers and other admirers have been quick to add their own tributes.

US President Barack Obama





Tim Cook, Apple chief executive




Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder



GS Choi, Samsung chief executive


Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

"All of us would be touched every day by products that he was the creative genius behind, so this is very sad news and my condolences go to his family and friends."

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg




Image caption Steve Jobs is credited with revolutionising the way people listen to music

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder


Bob Iger, chief executive, Walt Disney



Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp


Larry Page, chief executive, Google


Howard Stringer, CEO, Sony


Spike Lee, producer, director, actor

"VISIONARIES are always called CRAZY in the beginning. A VISIONARY sees things that everybody else says is IMPOSSIBLE, sees a World that People can't invision (sic) - MAC, IPOD, IPAD, IPHONE, ITUNES and PIXAR. I have nothing but Love for Mr. Jobs and Apple, they have always given me and my films L-O-V-E."

Steve Wozniack, Apple Computer co-founder, and school friend

"I'm going to remember him as always being [of] very quick mind, and almost all the time that we had discussions about how something should be done in the company, he was almost always right. He had thought it out. He had thought out why a product should go to the left, instead of to the right. So, just really his intelligence, common sense, knowing what made sense in a product, what wasn't going to sell, and what was going to sell. And when you should implement a new technology and be ahead of the world and when, maybe, you should be a little bit of a follower."

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Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post

"'Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose', as Steve Jobs said in 2005."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California


The Grammys (recording academy)

"Thank you for revolutionising the way we listen to music. Your vision will not be forgotten."

iPhone vigils

Industry colleagues and rivals flocked to pay their compliments for and respect to Steve Jobs, including the founder of Twitter, Dick Costolo, AOL's founder, Steve Case, the chief executive of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, the chief executive of Dell, Michael Dell and the chairman of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger.

Other tributes (via Twitter) included praise for the way Steve Jobs changed the technological landscape:

"Thank you, Steve Jobs, for making technology a delight to use, instead of a necessary evil."

"The world pauses their iPods and rushes to their MacBooks and iPhones to confirm the news."

"3 Apples changed the World, 1st one seduced Eve, 2nd fell on Newton and the 3rd was offered to the World half bitten by Steve Jobs."


And social networking groups were calling for iPhone vigils in public parks across the United States.

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