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STEVE JOBS

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n 2002, the Mac OS X was brand new, and Apple was striving

to get customers and developers to embrace it. Jobs decided

to put the issue to rest, literally, at the Worldwide Developers

Conference.

As the presentation began, Jobs was not onstage. Instead,

white smoke surrounded a casket. Gloomy pipe-organ music

played in the background. Jobs finally emerged from behind a

curtain, walked to the casket, lifted the lid, and pulled out a

large-scale copy of OS 9, Apple’s previous operating system. The

audience got the joke immediately and started laughing and

applauding.

Jobs was committed to the joke and took it further. With a

copy of OS 9 lying in the casket, Jobs pulled out a sheet of paper

and eulogized the software. “Mac OS 9 was a friend to us all,” he

started.

He worked tirelessly on our behalf, always posting our appli-

cations, never refusing a command, always at our beck and

call, except occasionally when he forgot who he was and

needed to be restarted. He came into this world in October of

1998... We are here today to mourn the passing of OS 9. He

is in the great bit bucket in the sky, no doubt looking down

upon this with that same smile he displayed every time he

booted. Mac OS 9 is survived by his next generation, Mac