Jobs dies of cancer as tributes and tears flow

6 Oct 2011

Millions of computer users, along with business leaders, colleagues, employees, friends and, ofcourse his family are all mourning the loss of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer after fighting a long battle with the disease.

Jobs dies of cancer as tributes and tears flow

Tributes from a cross section of people have come pouring in to Apple and to its pages on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks as well as in newspapers, television studios and Apple stores around the world.

The tributes range from comments from business leaders, to presidents such as the US President Barack Obama and to a young teenager who placed her own iPod Nano outside one of Apple's stores in Cupertino.

Wreaths have been laid outside Apple's headquarters and in outside stores around the world as news of the death of Steve Jobs swept across the world. Apple's tribute was, perhaps, the most poignant.

It published a simple black and white photograph of Jobs with the plain inscription 1955-2011.

On the next page, Apple's inscription read: "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."

Tributes have poured in for Steve Jobs who revolutionised personal computers, mobiles phones, music devices and tablet computers. May such a revolution live on.

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