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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, i'm stunned. i worked with apple for year, you know, talking to them about products. i've been in the same room with steve jobs during his many product announcements. i never had the pleasure of sitting down to din...

Quite like steve jobs. first of all, a true phoenix. somebody who we rode off in the mid '80s, as somebody who had one really good idea and then couldn't reproduce. and, you know, steve jobs went off, learned a bunch of stuff, started other businesses, gave us pixar, by the way and then came back and restarted, really restarted apple in the late '90s. as almost a different man. because his vision, his laserlike focus, allowed him to create a run of products that we've never seen before. we've never seen anything quite like it. a decade of iconic products that people simply have to have. there ...