Street Buzz: Core of Apple Fans Memorialize Steve Jobs

BY ALEXANDER CONTRATTO

New Yorkers and tourists alike stopped last Sunday to read notes posted at the Apple Store at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue since the October 5 death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The notes expressed thanks, a sense of loss, and admiration for Jobs’ innovative work, and soon spread to cover several windows; the Fifth Avenue Apple store has a memorial mural as well.  Jobs, who was diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer in 2003, died just over a month after he stepped down as Apple’s CEO, citing health problems, and one day after new CEO Tim Cook introduced the iPhone 4S, Tuesday October 4th.

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