The Oct. 5 death of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, 56, had an effect on a West Orange woman's visit to a local Apple store and a Montclair woman's home research.
"My 14-year-old son wanted to go to the Apple Store in the Short Hills Mall after Steve Jobs died," said Janet Dorfman, of West Orange. "He and his generation grew up on Mac computers, phones and pads. He was reading everything on Jobs since his death."
Dorfman, a librarian, arranged to have a memorial display by the Bloomfield Public Library's reference section. The standalone display included Jobs' portrait, one of his quotes and several books on Apple computers.
Dorfman added that the Millburn Short Hills Mall Apple store, unlike others around the world did not have a makeshift memorial. A woman answering the store's telephone 5 p.m. Oct. 12 said that the store received "several Post-It notes and flowers."
Jobs' death meanwhile caused Dr. Marian Osborne to revise her Sunday plans. She incorporated one of Jobs' quotes and a Time Magazine cover portrait in her Oct. 9 continuing sermon at Newark's Bethel Worldwide Outreach on preparing for success.
"I poured over material on Steve Jobs overnight," said Osborne. "I changed Sunday's service message to 'How Are You Prepared for Life and Death?"
An Oct. 6 Apple release said that Jobs had passed away at his Palo Alto, Calif. home at 3 p.m. local time Oct. 5 surrounded by family and friends. The local medical examiner listed his cause of death as respiratory arrest and pancreatic cancer. He listed Jobs' profession as entrepreneur.
That Jobs had been battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer has been known since he announced his diagnosis in 2004. He had stepped down as Apple's CEO - but retained his chairmanship of its director's board Aug. 24. Apple's stock value fell about five percent on the Dow Jones Stock Exchange.
Jobs' death still was a shock that rippled across the global and cultural landscape. Tributes have poured in for the man whose companies have transformed how many get their information and entertainment from people from all walks of life.
Jobs - whose companies created the Apple II and Macintosh computers, plus the more recent iPhone and iPad communication devices - was worth about $7 billion as of Oct. 5. Apple's is second only to ExxonMobile in value.
The former college dropout became a twice over rags-to-riches story. Steve Paul Jobs was born to graduate students "John" Jandi and Joanne Schiebe in San Francisco Feb. 4, 1955 but put him up for adoption 10 months later.
Jobs graduated from Homestead High School and spent a semester at Oregon's Reed College. He later took audit courses at other college and at future computer builder Hewitt-Packard.
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life,” said Jobs in a Stanford University commencement address. “Don’t be trapped by dogma - which's living with the results of other people's thinking. Don’t let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
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