California Declares Today "Steve Jobs Day"

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Apple's Steve Jobs Gets His Day

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ life as a technology trailblazer will be marked Sunday by his company’s home state, at a private memorial service and in a television documentary.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, in an announcement via a Twitter post, has declared it “Steve Jobs Day.”

Elsewhere, Apple has invited Silicon Valley luminaries to a private memorial service at Stanford University’s campus Sunday night, according to The Wall Street Journal. Another service for Apple employees will be held Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Also Sunday, The Discovery Channel will air a documentary special called “iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World.” The one-hour program will be hosted by “Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman and will feature many sources, such as a friend who traveled to India with Jobs and who later become an early Apple employee, an engineer who gave Jobs his start, NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, and musician Stevie Wonder.

Jobs died October 5 at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Since then, the Apple leader behind the iPhone, iPad and other hot gadgets has been remembered around the world for ushering in an ever bolder era for consumer technology.

In a postscript to a life filled with financial success, since Jobs’ death Apple’s new smartphone, the iPhone 4S, has shattered all previous preorder records for all Apple products and brought people out in droves to wait in line Friday when the phone first arrived in stores. (See also "Mourners Flock to Apple Stores to Pay Tribute to Jobs.")

Source: PCWorld via Slashdot

[Boz]

Apple's Steve Jobs Gets His Day

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ life as a technology trailblazer will be marked Sunday by his company’s home state, at a private memorial service and in a television documentary.

California Gov. Jerry Brown, in an announcement via a Twitter post, has declared it “Steve Jobs Day.”

Elsewhere, Apple has invited Silicon Valley luminaries to a private memorial service at Stanford University’s campus Sunday night, according to The Wall Street Journal. Another service for Apple employees will be held Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Also Sunday, The Discovery Channel will air a documentary special called “iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World.” The one-hour program will be hosted by “Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman and will feature many sources, such as a friend who traveled to India with Jobs and who later become an early Apple employee, an engineer who gave Jobs his start, NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, and musician Stevie Wonder.

Jobs died October 5 at age 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Since then, the Apple leader behind the iPhone, iPad and other hot gadgets has been remembered around the world for ushering in an ever bolder era for consumer technology.

In a postscript to a life filled with financial success, since Jobs’ death Apple’s new smartphone, the iPhone 4S, has shattered all previous preorder records for all Apple products and brought people out in droves to wait in line Friday when the phone first arrived in stores. (See also "Mourners Flock to Apple Stores to Pay Tribute to Jobs.")

Source: PCWorld via Slashdot

Oh God.. this is becoming a joke. People need to get a grip.

[what]

This is becoming bigger than 9/11

[Hell-In-A-Handbasket]

whaaaaat.

i dont hate/love jobs or apple, but this is just stupid

[lalalawawawa]

What the ****?

[Quillz]

So when Bill Gates dies, can we expect Washington to have a "Bill Gates Day?"

[MikeGMD]

you do not have to agree or like it .

for what he has done for the world and Disney this is a great thing

[acnpt]

It isn't an official days, chill out guys.

I'm sure when the CEOs of Acer and HTC die, we will have days remembering how awful the courier only service centres were, and their lack of retail stores. :laugh:

[lalalawawawa]

you do not have to agree or like it .

for what he has done for the world and Disney this is a great thing

You're not serious, right?