Friday, October 7, 2011

Steve Jobs passes away

A picture of Steve Jobs, who founded and ran Apple, is seen at the Humac People store in Helsinki, on October 6, 2011. Jobs died peacefully on Wednesday, according to a statement from family members who were present. He was 56. (AP/Lehtikuva)
A South Korean man holds a banner paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in Seoul on October 6, 2011. World leaders, tech giants, and countless ordinary people have paid tribute to Steve Jobs after his death, marveling at how the Apple visionary made modern life more user-friendly.  (AFP/Park Ji-Hwan)
Flowers in memory of former CEO Steve Jobs are laid outside an Apple Store in Hong Kong October 6,2011. Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues.  (Reuters/Tyrone Siu)
A tribute message to the late Steve Jobs, written in lipstick, is seen on the window of the Apple Store in Santa Monica, California, on October 5, 2011. Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on Wednesday at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)
Apples with messages paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs outside an Apple store in Tokyo on October 6, 2011. The death of Steve Jobs left people around the world 'iSad' on October 6, with countless mourners typing out their grief on the handheld Apple gadgets that have transformed modern life. (AFP/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs seen speaking during a special event in Tokyo in this August 4, 2005, file photo.  (Reuters)
People sit before computer screens showing a portrait of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs at an Apple store in Munich on October 6, 2011. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle)
Fresh apples, flowers and a large poster of Steve Jobs are placed outside an Apple retail store in Beijing, China, on October 6, 2011. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and father of the iPhone, has died at age 56. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
People record a memorial to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on October 6, 2011 in front of an Apple store in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
A customer holds an iPad in an Apple store in central Prague on October 6, 2011. Apple Inc co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, counted among the greatest American CEOs of his generation, died on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56, after a years-long and highly public battle with cancer and other health issues. (Reuters/Petr Josek)
A photo of Apple's visionary leader Steve Jobs is placed at a make-shift memorial in front of an Apple store in Paris, on October 6, 2011. (Reuters/Benoit Tessier)
A fan lays a flower on an Apple logo and displays a picture of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs as to pay tribute at an Apple retail store in Hong Kong on October 6, 2011.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A bunch of flowers with a card reading 'God is Dead' is left in tribute outside the Apple store in central London on October 6, 2011.  (AFP/Leon Neal)
A tourist sits in a sombre mood at an electronic shop in Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011.  (AP/Vincent Yu)
Softbank Mobile's Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son speaks to the media regarding the obituary of Apple's founder Steve Jobs at Son's company in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Son, whose company is the sole carrier of the iPhone in Japan, compares Steve Jobs to Leonardo da Vinci.  (AP/Shuji Kajiyama)
A businessman offers prayers in front of flowers offered in memory of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, placed at the entrance of the Ginza Apple store in Tokyo October 6, 2011. Apple co-founder Jobs, who changed the daily habits of millions by reinventing computing, music and mobile phones, died on Wednesday.  (Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)
A woman touches an iPhone to light a candle graphic during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Apple announced Jobs' death without giving a specific cause.  (AP)

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