By: Aseem Gaurav on October 16, 2011
Today is “Steve Jobs Day” in the Southern US state of California. The announcement comes a week after the 56-year-old Apple founder's death.
In the statement released on Saturday, California governor Jerry Brown described Apple founder as a "unique California visionary" whose achievements "changed the world communicates."
Apple has invited Silicon Valley luminaries to a private memorial service at Stanford University’s campus for its founder. Similarly, another service for Apple staff will held on October 19 at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Apart from these events, the Discovery Channel will air a documentary called “iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World” hosted by “Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. The show will feature: theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, musician Stevie Wonder and NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw.
Even the fans of Apple founder have created a "Steve Jobs Day" Web site with followers dressing up like him, wearing turtle necks, and mimicking its hand-on-chin pose. Visit the site here.
"In his life and work, Steve Jobs embodied the California dream. His innovations transformed an industry, and the products he conceived. His vision helped put technologies in the hands of ordinary consumers. It is fitting that we mark this day to honor his life and achievements as a uniquely Californian visionary. He epitomized the spirit of a state that an eager world watches to see what will come next," the Californian governor said in a statement.
Jobs died at his home on October 5 at age 56 in California following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. After his death, Apple issued a statement saying: "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”
To a certain extent, the outpouring of grief over Steve Jobs death, resulted in sky-high sales of iPhone 4S which debuted recently. Apple sold a whopping one million units of iPhone 4S in its first 24 hours, thus, beating the previous record held by iPhone 4 for selling 600,000 units on the first day. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak also paid tribute to his collaborator by camping out overnight. The iPhone 4S comes with Siri, a voice-based ‘digital assistant’, a dual core A5 chip and a 8 MP camera that also shoots 1080p HD video.
As skeptics wonder the reasons behind sky-high sales, Apple fans know that they want to praise this great piece of Steve.
