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Steve Jobs showed America what was possible. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLOAbove, Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs is pictured holding the Macbook Air. Jobs died this week at age 56. Steve Jobs has been called the Thomas Edison of our time, but that’s probably a stretch. Jobs didn’t invent computing or cell phones or digital music. He was more like BASF, which, in its TV commercials, says: “We don’t make the (fill in the blank), we make it better.” Under Jobs, Apple reinvented gadgets, made them really cool, then convinced us that we had to have them — a slick-looking personal computer without the usual bugs, a music library of a thousand songs that fit into a device the size of a credit card, cell phones that do just about anything but juggle and make animal balloons.

Of course, we had to upgrade to the newest versions, over and over. And now that Jobs has died at the age of 56, the world’s gadget addicts wonder: Who will see the future? But the genius of foresight wasn’t the only quality that made Jobs an icon. Jobs humanized technology, made the magical common. Opinion By Dan Frakes October 6, 2011 05:51 PM ET Macworld - I used my first computer sometime during the late 1970s. It was an Apple II, and it amazed me. I was in elementary school, and it was at a friend's house on a farm in the midwest. I point out the time and the location because in retrospect, I find it fascinating that my first exposure to computers, at the dawn of the PC era, wasn't in a school or a business, and it wasn't in the sort of setting most people would associate with groundbreaking technology.

I'd like to think that anecdote would have brought a smile to Steve Jobs's face. I'm tempted to be dramatic and say that I knew at that moment that I'd be working with computers for the rest of my life. Yet here we are, and here I am. I don't think you can overstate what an accomplishment that was. Pros say no match for Apple innovator. Apple will 'talk iPhone' on Tuesday. Apple sent out invitations Tuesday morning to an event next Tuesday. The tagline: "Let's talk iPhone. " Let's! Breaking with tradition, this iPhone event will be held not in San Francisco but on Apple's Cupertino campus. It begins at 10 a.m. Rumors about iPhone 5 run the gamut.

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Pixar. Apple Met With Palo Alto Police Days Before Steve Jobs’s Death. (For more coverage of Steve Jobs, see EXT5 <GO>.) Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. security officials met with police in Palo Alto, California, this week to notify them that Steve Jobs was close to death, a spokeswoman with the police department said. Following the meeting, the police devised a plan to put patrols in the area around the former Apple chief executive officer’s Palo Alto home once they heard from the company that he had died, according to Sandra Brown, the spokeswoman.

The Apple representatives told the police department there was “a possibility that it could happen this week,” Brown said in a phone interview. “It’s common sense for us to work together. If you think about who he was and his contribution to the world, people might come out in masses.” Jobs, who resigned as Apple’s CEO on Aug. 24, died Oct. 5, the Cupertino, California-based company said. Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, declined to comment about the police meeting. ‘Compounds and Walls’ Jobs was in tight control of choices till his final days - PTI -