The front page from The Daily News in Palo Alto, California, calls attention to his status as a powerful thought-leader and innovator, while other papers reference the creativity of his product designs or his iconic personality. It’s somehow fitting that like great individuals before him, Jobs has been treated to homages in newsprint and ink — even if he spent most of his life switching the world over to bits.
We pulled some of our favourite front pages from Australian newspapers from The Paper Boy as well as front pages from all over the world from Newseum.
The Daily Telegraph — Australia
The Courier Mail — Australia
The Age — Australia
The Advertiser — Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald — Australia
Herald Sun — Australia
The San Jose Mercury News — San Jose, California
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BenDTU
October 7, 2011 at 12:20 PMWow, crazy how much attention this is getting.
I even had things like collectible sites I follow posting this yesterday. Pretty crazy how wide an influence his legacy has had.
moloko
October 7, 2011 at 1:51 PMUm Yeah, everyone is giving him a bit too much credit on the tech front.
Jen
October 7, 2011 at 6:15 PMI don’t think so. Part of being a master of technology is being able to not only innovate but sell something. He was amazing at making his products desirable, which is why so many other computer brands have been influenced by his designs and software features.
nak
October 7, 2011 at 1:51 PMGood on ya for posting links to the various papers and to Newseum. CoM decided to take 100+ of them, full size, no links to anything, not even a mention of taking them from Newseum.
Chris
October 7, 2011 at 2:01 PMEnough already. FFS it’s a sad thing but enough is enough.
Bruce
October 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM@ Chris – Mr Negative Nelly, how about YOU go and start something from the age of 21 and use a bit of creative genius to make it flourish. Go and post your “enough’s enough” somewhere else where its wanted and not on a tech site. Go and worry about cartons of beer and what havianas you will buy.
Steve
October 7, 2011 at 11:11 PM@Bruce. “HUH?! Who are YOU to judge Hitler! I bet YOU couldn’t have run pre-war Germany! I bet YOU couldn’t have turned it into a world power that massacred millions of Jews!”
*Godwin’s Law and hyperbole for effect.
I’m not agreeing with him, but using the “I’d like to see you do better” is perhaps the cheapest and most pointless argument angle you can attack someone from. It doesn’t mean anything, is completely irrelevant and comes off as overly defensive.
Scott
October 7, 2011 at 3:29 PMWhat Bruce said – I wish you differently, Chris, but more people will still talk of Jobs in 100 years than any of us could hope for. Like him or loath him, he pushed the usage of technology into areas of our lives where others had tried and languished, or hadn’t even attempted.
The CEO of Softbank was probably wasn’t overreaching when comparing Jobs to Da Vinci in terms of the long reaching effect Jobs has had on society. The current explosion and war on smartphones alone is testament to that.
red t-rex
October 7, 2011 at 4:34 PMComparing to daVinci may be going a bit far. I guess we’ll know in a couple of hundred years. I heard a comparison with Howard Hughes which sounded a little more appropriate. Or maybe somewhere in between Howard Hughes and daVinci. I’m not an apple fan, but I appreciate the huge impact he had. The world is a better place for his contributions and for shaking things up a bit.
Jake D
October 7, 2011 at 2:23 PMThe cover of the West Australian is pretty epic, too.
Franz
October 7, 2011 at 3:51 PMThe ‘apple losing it’s core’ and similar line being used was kinda insensitive.
Also, people who don’t want to hear about it anymore, get used to it, because there will be a film or two, and in the news you will hear of some guy painting a portrait of him that gets auctioned for charity, there’ll be a (modest) public monument/memorial for people to visit. So deal with it before your temper turns to rage.
Chris
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BrianG
October 7, 2011 at 5:57 PMFunny that, the west australian didn’t have a speck on him on the front page ;-).
trk
October 7, 2011 at 6:46 PMI thought The Courier Mail’s front page had a very fitting pair of headlines:
http://imgur.com/PujWu
Michael
October 7, 2011 at 8:04 PMJobs actually died on the 10th of September, Apple quashed the rumors for fear shares would drop dramatically. Thats why they had the disapointing “Let’s talk iPhone” event where they planted rumors of the iPhone 5 around the place. Just saying.
Marc Monticelli
October 8, 2011 at 12:04 AMThe French “Liberation” made (I think) the most beautiful cover about the event : http://owni.fr/files/2011/10/libe.jpg