Apple is celebrating the life of Steve Jobs, who passed away 10 years ago today.
A three-minute clip posted to the Apple homepage revisits Jobs’ notable speeches, including his call to “think different,” as well as Apple event appearances where he showed off the iPhone and other innovations.
In a statement (posted in full below), the Jobs family says “For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together. Our gratitude has become as great as our loss.”
On Twitter, current Apple CEO Tim Cook says it’s “hard to believe it’s been 10 years. Celebrating you today and always.”
Jony Ive, who left his design role at Apple in 2019, wrote a Wall Street Journal piece about what he misses most about Jobs. His friend’s death was “brutal, heartbreaking,” Ive writes, and he has not spoken publicly about Jobs in the last decade. “But I think about Steve every day.”
“He was without doubt the most inquisitive human I have ever met,” Ive writes. “His insatiable curiosity was not limited or distracted by his knowledge or expertise, nor was it casual or passive. It was ferocious, energetic and restless. His curiosity was practiced with intention and rigor.”
Statement from the Jobs family:
For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together.
Our gratitude has become as great as our loss.Each of us has found his or her own path to consolation,
but we have come together in a beautiful place of love
for Steve, and for what he taught us.For all of Steve’s gifts, it was his power as a teacher that has endured.
He taught us to be open to the beauty of the world, to be curious around
new ideas, to see around the next corner, and most of all to stay
humble in our own beginner’s mind.There are many things we still see through his eyes, but he also
taught to look for ourselves. He gave us equipment for living,
and it has served us well.One of our greatest sources of consolation has been our association
of Steve with beauty. The sight of something beautiful — a wooded hillside,
a well‑made object — recalls his spirit to us. Even in his years of suffering,
he never lost his faith in the beauty of existence.Memory is inadequate for what is in our hearts: we miss him profoundly.
We were blessed to have him as husband and father.