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October 5th is associated with great sadness for many apple fans. Exactly 7 years ago, their father passed away. Applol, Steve JobsThe man who changed the technology industry left an unforgettable mark on the lives of many people who remember him in these sad days. We bring you their memories in the following lines.

"One of the greatest pleasures I've had in my forty years of friendship with Steve has been taking walks together - usually from his house to get frozen yogurt or a smoothie," recalls Jobs' friend Larry Brilliant, who previously worked for the World Health Organization, for example. Steve Jobs He was known for his love of walking, as evidenced by the testimony of Oracle's Larry Ellison, who recalls how the distance of his walks became shorter as Steve's strength waned due to illness.

Over time, the walks stopped and Steve was confined to his own bed. Even there, however, he did not close himself off from the world – or from his colleagues and friends – and almost anyone from this circle could come to visit. Ron Johnson visited Jobs on the last Sunday before he left this world. The door to the room was always open. Johnson recalls walking in, saying hello, and sitting on the edge of Steve's bed, where he had a conversation with him for about two hours. "I wasn't directly in his closest circle, but definitely in the next one. We had an incredible relationship and had lots of intimate, deep conversations about spiritual topics.”

"Towards the end of his life, he seemed to have changed a lot," he recalls of Jobs. Steve Wozniak.“In his mind he often went back in time, even to the times before Applem." John Markoff confirms that Jobs was very sentimental towards the end of his life: "We somehow got to how significant the moment he took LSD was for him. He said it was one of the two or three most significant events in his life," he adds. Ron Johnson, in turn, remembers the slow, conciliatory atmosphere in which he and Jobs reminisced about everything they had done together. "I remember saying 'Thank you' at the end," he says. "He said the same thing, and I hugged him," he adds.

"He died on Wednesday, October 5, 2011," says Mike Slade. “I was dismayed when he died; I didn't expect that at all. I was shocked that he died. He told me he still had a year. And suddenly he was dead". Mona Simpson recalls Steve's last words: “Oh, wow! Oh wow! Oh, wow!”. Few people are probably not interested in what happens after life. Close friends and associates of Steve Jobs recall his belief in reincarnation. "One of the books he really liked was The Way of the White Clouds, about Tibetan reincarnation," says Dan Kottke.

Mike Slade received an email from Steve's wife the day after his death asking if he would attend a small memorial service she was hosting. "I went. It was a really hot, weird day in Silicon Valley," Slade recalls. "It was so soon after he died, it was still reverberating in everyone. It wasn't one of those things that helps people get back together. There was a very small but very diverse group: Bob Iger was there, Lee Clow was there, reading 'The Crazy Ones', Steve's biological sister Mona Simpson; all his children; Lauren; the only people from AppThe ones I remember were Jony Ive, Eddy Cue and Tim Cook...".

A larger memorial service was held at Stanford—but it wasn't just a small group of people. "Clinton was there. Lots of billionaires, lots of famous people," recalls Jon Rubinstein, and John Markoff adds that Joan Baez, George Lucas, Bill Gates or John Warnock. But Dan Kottke and Alvy Ray Smith admit they weren't invited, and Steve Wozniak adds that he did not show up. Mike Slade recalls the speech she wrote and deliveredoneRon Johnson, Jobs' wife Laurene, notes that her delivery was truly elegant.

The memories of those close to Steve Jobs about his last days come from a book "Valley of Genius", in which its author Adam Fisher collected more than two hundred interviews, telling the uncensored history of Silicon Valley.

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