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Yesterday marked a full decade since Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.

He certainly left behind a sizeable legacy, leading the charge to turn Apple into one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Jobs co-founded Apple with friend Steve Wozniak on April 1, 1976, and resigned as chief executive in August 2011, handing the reins to Tim Cook.

It was Cook who shared a video tribute to his predecessor, with the video also featuring at the top of Apple’s landing page yesterday.

The Verge reports that the short film “commemorates Jobs’ life in photos, videos, and some of his most iconic quotes”:

“People with passion can change the world for the better.”— SJ. Hard to believe it’s been 10 years. Celebrating you today and always. pic.twitter.com/x2IUnlO7ta

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) October 5, 2021

Cook went on to say in a company-wide memo that Jobs “challenged us to see the world not for what it was, but for what it could be”.

Apple also published a statement from the Jobs family to mark the anniversary:

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.

Image: Pinterest / K. Hoffman

 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.

Jony Ive, a close friend who was also Apple’s former chief design officer, said Jobs “truly believed that by making something useful, empowering and beautiful, we express our love for humanity”.

His widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has ramped up her philanthropic endeavours and recently invested $3,5 billion over the next 10 years to address the climate crisis.

[source:verge]