By Frances Cook
Apple founder Steve Jobs has been remembered in Wellington today, with a memorial service in St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral.
Around a dozen people gathered in the cathedral to the sound of Adele’s Someone Like You, celebrating what organiser and Massey University chaplain Mark Grace says was a “life that inspired many”.
“He believed he could change the world, that the status quo could be challenged and changed,” the reverend says.
“And I think that more than anything affected me and what I do, because he brought a type of hope to his life’s work.”
Victoria University Professor Robert Ayson says it is the loss of someone with a unique and inspiring focus that has caused some people to have a strong response to Jobs’ death.
“I think one of the things that helps explain people’s reaction to his death…is the creative side of this person, and the sense of focus that comes out,” Dr Ayson says.
“He spoke, for example, of the impact his illness had on him and how that only increased his desire to get everything out.
“He had this sense of what he wanted to do, and I think people find that really inspiring.”
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