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Little over an hour now. at this point in the afternoon -- late afternoon in california. joining me now is lance ulenoff, editor and chief of mashinable.com and former editor of "pc" magazine. thanks for joining me tonight, lance. >> thanks for having me on. >> you were a friend of steve jobs for a very long time. what is your reaction to where we are tonight with this news? >> well, i should say, you know, im stunned. i worked with apple for year, you know, talking to them about products. ive b...

And when he left, clearly apple was left substantially reduced. and i think to a large extent, when he left, he was substantially reduced. both the company and steve jobs needed each other decembsperate and its doubtful any one of them could survive the others. i think it was one of the reasons he was tied so tightly to the job. he was convinced he couldnt survive without being a major part of apple. so its -- his passing is a great, a very deep meaning i think for the overall technology market ...

Detectives have harnessed apples products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively. tonight our city, a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius, joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping laurene and the rest of the jobs family in our thoughts and prayers." joining me now is janet shamlian who is live just outside of apple headquarters in cupertino, california. janet, what is the scene there? >> reporter: well, you know, t...

I think he imbued the company with enough spirit and has tim cook and a product pipeline deep enough thats going to survive him several years to come. for those that i think are maybe overly pessimistic about apples future, i think one of the genius elements of mr. jobs is hes been able to create an entity that probably has a very good life going forward. >> ron insana of cnbc. thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> lawrence, thank you. >> bill gates, the former chief executive of micros...

Company, a 50,000-employee company that was so consistently ahead of the curve and ahead of all their competitors? >> people will be writing newspaper articles and blog posts and books about that for many years to come. i dont have the answer. and it will be -- it will be really interesting to see what happens with apple and what happens with personal computer technology in the years to come. people think of apple, people have thought of apple for so long as steve jobs. he embodied that company,...

His specification. they were his. he was a super craftsman scaling himself to the millions of users that they had. it was what made him different. when you touch an iphone, at least today, you touch steve jobs. that is unique. you just dont have that with any other products. >> rob, the flag is now flying at half-mast outside of the headquarters at apple. a loss like no other company has suffered in recent memory that were seeing today. youve study his life. he packed as much life as you possibl...

Not exist when he was born. and then in effect created an industry, the home computer industry that very few others at the time he did it thought was possible. they thought that, sure, theres a market for home toasters and for television, but a home computer? sounded crazy. >> remember ibm rejected the notion of a personal computer years ago and decided there was no notion for individuals to own computers that sat on a desktop or on your lap or in your hand. when apple 2 came out, i remember a f...

Neck and his jeans. as there were those years in the late 80s and early 90s when steve jobs worked somewhere else. despite that, when you thought of apple, you thought of steve jobs. we thought of apple a lot. just as much as apple was and still is, it changed the way america consumes media and uses the power of commuting. it all began in 1984 with the companys first big press conference to introduce its macintosh computer. before that in 1976, there was apple 1. 1977, they had considerable succ...

Steve jobs, more than any other figure, shaped our digital era on his own terms and created hundreds of billions of tldolla of value along the way. his story has an unlikely beginning. steven paul jobs was born in san francisco in 1955. given up by his birth parents, he was adopted by a family in the heart of silicon valley. he dropped out of college to pursue his ideas and teamed up with a friend to build a new kind of computer, one anybody could use. the company they founded was the first to m...

>> i think this is where the worlds going. >> reporter: apples total market value recently reached about $340 billion. its valuation is neck in neck with exxonmobil at the top of the heap for public companies. the company has 47,000 employees. those are just numbers. by the time jobs was done, he set a new standard for geeks, dreamers and business schools everywhere. built silicon valleys most valuable company and brought industries to their knees. but it wasnt all glory and success for jobs. ap...