Steve Jobs it was the engine that made Apple one of the world’s technology giants. Since his death, on October 5, 2011, Thousands of tributes have been paid to him, but there is one in particular that is moving for many.
In 2015 the detail came to light in a profile on Sir Jonathan Ive in The New Yorker, Written by Ian Parker. The English industrial designer was practically a neighbor of Jobs.
The tribute consisted of maintaining Steve Jobs’ office at Apple exactly the same since the day he died.
As recalled by The New Yorker, Jobs’s office in One Infinite Loop was connected to Ive’s laboratory in Two Infinite Loop, through a covered corridor. Both were the only buildings joined in this way on the Apple campus.
But it is not the only reference to the office of the founder of Apple.
Tim Cook talks about Steve Jobs’ office at Apple
Tim Cook, Steve Jobs’ successor as CEO of the company, also spoke on the subject. He did so in an interview with Wired, years after death.
“We closed Steve’s office. I would not have moved into it, and no one has.” Cook noted. “I decided early on that it didn’t feel right to change that office at all.”
“There are some character things that he had there that are now with Laurene (Jobs’s widow). But they are the same desk and chair, credenza, library. In fact, there are still drawings on the board that your daughter made. Last summer she came and I showed her the things she had drawn,” she added.
For his former colleagues and employees, this is a monument to the man who changed the history of the company. A museum, a priceless relic.
“You can still feel it there,” Cook said in the aforementioned interview, “because I saw it there a lot. Some people go to the grave site to reflect on someone. I don’t do it often but I go to his office.