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hey there guys brian tong here and welcome to the Apple byte we know it's a different mood here with the passing of Steve Jobs at the age of 56 and we wanted to use this show to say thank you Tim for making a real impact and influencing all of our lives and for generations to come SJ brought a childlike joy to many of us with products that he personified and when he took the stage for his keynotes or what onlookers started calling Steve notes we were all watching really cool piece of hard work we're really excited about this one of the most amazing things we've ever created these beautiful things we've ever made this is really hot an all-new design let me show it to you this is it right here this is what it looks like this is the result we show to you now there it is it is the thinnest even thinner faster thinner it is the thinnest of fun too small nothing even approaching this amazing stunning just beautiful beautiful it's really beautiful really nice gorgeous how thin it is fantastic incredible astounding and it feels even better in your hand almost flows very beautiful I'm still stuck I forgot there is one last thing you know there was always one more thing from Steven we'll always miss that now I didn't realize that I would actually have such strong feelings about his passing in I wasn't the only one after learning of his death people went to a place where they felt connected to him the Apple Store so here's a collection of their thoughts and reactions Jia's only comes around once I know couple centuries so like this sing thanks and you know recipes I think through Apple and iPhone and everything is gonna leave all I don't really think that words can really describe like anything about Steve other than just greatness it's just right to do you know to respect a guy who had given the world so much like in terms of technology and you know rejuvenated a company that was on the edge of disaster mr. Jobs was a visionary who changed the world and changed the face of technology and his perfectionism shows itself and everything he did and this is where we go to recognize what his achievements I was founder and CEO of an app development company he made that entire company possible I wouldn't have been doing what I was doing for last few years if it wasn't for the iPhone and his inventions just feel incredibly sad I think the world over has lost a really incredible man and a visionary and he will be he'll be deeply missed Apple stores also turned off the light behind their iconic logo to remember Steve but those crowds will soon be replaced with the iPhone 4s launching in the next week we're not done talking about Steve yet and his legacy will be felt throughout Apple's future products including the iPhone 4s so here's a preview of what you guys can expect when it launches Brian Shawn here with cnet.com from our headquarters in San Francisco California with our recap of the iPhone 4s now the phone looks a lot like this the iPhone 4 and we know from your feedback that plenty of you we're hoping for something more design wise but really its biggest improvements are under the hood now the iPhone 4s is loaded with an a5 dual-core processor which apple claims has twice the power and seven times faster graphics for gaming while also improving talktime battery life by an hour so we'll see how it fares in our lab tests the Florist also improves on one of the best smartphone cameras on the market with an eight megapixel camera that now shoots 1080p video they've also made improvements to the antenna design and the phone has faster mobile data speeds with HSDPA compatibility it will get all the new features in iOS 5 but exclusive to the iPhone 4s will be Siri they like to call it their intelligent voice assistant you hold on to the home button to initiate the feature and then you can ask it questions like what's the weather find the nearest burger restaurants near you or create reminders with your voice remind me to grab the present when I get home to reminder for when you get home it's the next level voice control in interaction with the phone so once we get our hands on it we'll see if it's as impressive as it looks now the iPhone 4s will be available on AT&T Verizon and now Sprint in the United States it's also a world phone that's compatible on GSM and CDMA networks it will come in two colors black and white and three flavors the 16-gig will be $1.99 with the two-year contract the 32gig will be $2.99 and the all-new 64 gig capacity will be 399 pre-orders start online on October the 7th and the phone will go on sale on October the 14th so there you have it i'm brian Thomasina comm and there's your quick recap of the iphone 4s now we know there was a lukewarm reception when it was announced but it really has the guts of a next generation phone and with everything that's happened in the past week calling the iPhone 4s the iPhone 4 Steve doesn't really feel that silly at all now we wanted to leave you with a feature that was put together by our team with Brian Cooley and it's a retrospective profiling the highs and lows of Steve Jobs career he had an amazing run and he was a man so unique we probably won't see anyone like him in our lifetime thank you Steve for everything and we'll all miss you you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future you have to trust in something your gut destiny life karma whatever because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path a philosophy Steve Jobs learned to embrace after a life of victories setbacks and surprising diversions that made him an agent of change in how we communicate and are entertained he is gone but his vision of our digital world very much remains the story of his life in technology played out in three acts the magnitude of which can only really be seen now looking back act 1 it's 1977 Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak introduced the Apple to the first successful personal computer but 1984 brought a much bigger milestone the first personal computer that was really personal today for the first time ever I'd like to let Macintosh speak for itself with a graphical interface Mouse creative software and whimsical design it was a completely different animal from the sterile machines coming from Microsoft and Intel just as different was the TD commercial that announced the Mac one they still talked about in the ad business today and which showed jobs new technology sells better with a little height but none of that would be enough to hold back the juggernaut of Intel and Microsoft and the difficulties Apple faced in growing the Mac business led to jobs being shown the door at his own company in 1985 I was basically fired from Apple uno his food that was difficult when it happened but maybe the best thing that ever happened to me at 2:00 shortly after Jobs ouster he founds next to produce a new kind of advanced workstation computer that runs on an object-oriented software architecture which would become the basis of a dramatically new and better Mac OS years later similarly telling was the design of the next machine stylish austere and breaking convention sound familiar in 1986 Jobs also acquired the graphic arts division of Lucasfilm turning it into Pixar the studio that mainstreamed animated features and can boast that its films deliver the highest average gross revenue of any studio in the film industry but in classic form act 3 with jobs biggest he retook the helm of a nearly bankrupt Apple and introduced the iMac the following year with what was the first of what we now call a Steve note iMac comes from the marriage of the excitement of the internet with the simplicity of Macintosh it was the first personal computer designed around the Internet what Bill Gates and Microsoft Word of the PC era Jobs was about to become to the Internet and eventually mobile era we got a lot of incredible stuff to show you today his presentation skills at events such as mac world would become legendary examples of showmanship and star power in industry it's really beautiful this is what it looks detractors would derive jobs hype as a reality distortion field but the iMac worked and Apple began to turn around but Jobs single biggest course change for Apple was not a computer but the iPod what is iPod but I haven't had one right here in my pocket in fact there it is right there introduced in October 2001 it was small in size spacious and capacity and looked good but more importantly it diversified Apple away from head-on competition with the wind tail computer makers while luring away their customers when iTunes launched Windows support in October of oh three I'm here to report to you today that this has happened Apple began to rewrite the music business become a major media player and got its first taste of market dominance but in terms of financial success nothing tops the Apple product that was built on the shoulders of the iPod today Apple is going to reinvent the phone but Jobs and Apple showed an uncanny ability to once again get the formula right appear the originator and make a piece of advanced technology seems simple magical and fashionable with that same DNA the iPad arrived in April 2010 we'd like to show it to you today for the first time and we call it the iPad and again legitimize the category that other companies had only nibbled at the edges of for year it's so much more intimate than a laptop and it's so much more capable than a smartphone Apple has had its share of flops but they mostly pale compared to its hits and there were always notes of hubris around the latter day company seen most in jobs almost dismissing documented problems with the iPhone fours antenna we think it's affecting a small percentage of users and we think some of that problem is inherent in most every smartphone but mostly apples since Jobs return has been a culture changer as much as a technology company one of the biggest success stories in American business and virtually indivisible from the identity of its CEO and it seems right that the best epitaph for him might be found in the words of an Apple TV commercial but wasn't really selling anything except Apple and while some may see them as the crazy ones we see genius because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do you