Directions:
1. Mark the text based on your Book-Noting Tips handout. There are also posters in every
Triumph classroom to help you.
2. Complete the non-fiction organizer attached.
3. Choose one of the reflection questions at the end and write a one paragraph of 4-10
sentences answer. Support your opinion with examples from the article.
4. Answer the reading comprehension questions at the end of the article.
Welch, William M. "Outpouring for Jobs Is More like Farewell to Friend than CEO - ABC News."
ABCNews.com: Daily News, Breaking News and Video Broadcasts - ABC News. 7 Oct. 2011. Web.
10 Oct. 2011. .
Outpouring for Jobs is more like farewell to friend than CEO
Consumers and admirers used Apple products that Jobs brought to the marketplace — iPhones,
iPads and Macs — to pay tribute online to the Silicon Valley innovator who made technology and
digital communication accessible, easy and fun for the average person.
Many were drawn to the nearest Apple store as a meeting place, or even a shrine, to share the
sadness of his passing.
Jobs, 56, founder and former CEO of Apple, died Wednesday after a struggle with pancreatic cancer.
"Steve was obviously a visionary," said Jon Thompson, the owner of a technology support company,
who visited an Apple store in West Des Moines. "He shaped our world in a way that I don't really
see anyone else having shaped it."
John Carr, a Palm Desert, Calif., doctor who says he owns nearly every Apple product, stopped by
his local Apple store to soothe his sense of loss.
"I just came here because I didn't know where else to go," said Carr, 50. "I'm shocked. I can't believe
it. I never even met the man, but I feel like I own every gadget he's ever made."
Peter Uhlich, an Apple user and software executive from Germany, altered a business trip to fly
from St. Louis to Northern California to pay his respects at Apple's Cupertino headquarters.
"He inspired me my whole business life," Uhlich said. "This is the last chance to talk to him. He was
one of the biggest visionaries in computers."
Some brought candles and flowers to makeshift shrines. The comparison to an entertainment star
who died too soon was unmistakable.
Mourners seemed unable to imagine another figure in business or technology evoking such deep
emotion in so many people.
"To some people, this is like Elvis Presley or John Lennon. It's a change in our times. It's the end of
an era," said San Francisco barber Scott Robbins, 34. "It's like the end of the innovators."
At Apple's flagship store in Tysons Corner, Va., which opened May 19, 2001, three bouquets of
flowers had been placed near the entrance and three post-it notes on the glass read, "Rest in Peace
Steve."
One card propped up against the wall said, "Steve, you changed my life, I love you."
"I am a big fan. He truly was a visionary," said Laureen Matte, 35, of Vienna, Va., visiting the store.
"I'm very sad. I hope this doesn't slow down the technology push that he started."
Outside Apple headquarters, three flags — a U.S. flag, a California flag and an Apple flag — flew at
half-staff. Flowers and notes were left in the sun outside Apple's Building No. 1.
Anirudh Chiva, a student at DeAnza College, brought flowers to a makeshift memorial at 1 Infinite
Loop, Apple's address.
"He's inspired me a lot," Chiva said. "It's sad. He was only 56. … Who knows what he could have
done, how he would have changed the world even more."
Pietro Dova of nearby Palo Alto took pictures of the flowers with his iPhone. "An icon has passed
away, and there may not be another one like him in my lifetime," Dova said. "He knew how to
develop complex products for the average person."
Tim Cook, Jobs' handpicked successor as CEO, sent an e-mail to Apple's workers, mourning the loss
and saying the company will continue in his spirit.
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the
foundation of Apple," Cook wrote.
Google, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft — corporate giants that have all been bruised in dustups with
Apple — put their rivalries aside to remember the man behind the iconic products that defined a
generation: the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.
"Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world," Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg wrote.
Sony President and Chief Executive Howard Stringer issued a statement saying, "The digital age has
lost its leading light, but Steve's innovation and creativity will inspire dreamers and thinkers for
generations."
Circle the correct answer:
1. Where did many people gather to mourn the death of Steve Jobs?
a. Silicon Valley
b. churches
c. Apple Stores
d. his home
2. Flags at Apple headquarters were
a. taken down in his memory.
b. flown at half staff.
c. replaced by an Apple flag.
d. left alone to show it is “business and usual.”
Choose one of the following and write a 4-10 sentence paragraph response:
1. Which of the products developed by Steve Jobs do you think has made the biggest impact
on society? How would things today be different without that product?
2. "‘To some people, this is like Elvis Presley or John Lennon. It's a change in our times. It's the
end of an era,’ said San Francisco barber Scott Robbins, 34. ‘It's like the end of the
innovators.’" Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?