Apple posts video of Jobs memorial

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is allowing the general public to get a look at a star-studded memorial service it held for employees to celebrate the life of Steve Jobs at its Cupertino headquarters last week.

Apple Inc. has not held any public services for Jobs, the company's visionary co-founder who died at age 56 on Oct. 5 afterwards a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

In a way, the video may serve that purpose. It runs 81 minutes and gives a rare glimpse of a company in mourning, showing several executives and board members reminiscing about their time with Jobs and speaking about the indelible mark he left on the innovation world.

The service

CEO Tim Cook kicks off the service, addressing an overflowing crowd of hundreds of Apple employees both on the ground and peering off balconies of surrounding buildings. As well in the audience was Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell Jobs.

Apple closed all of its retail stores for the service so its many employees at those locations could view the memorial live via a webcast as then.

"However I know Steve. Steve would have wanted this cloud to lift for Apple and our focus to return to the work that he loved so much," he said.

How The Walt Disney Co

Jobs saw how The Walt Disney Co. became "paralyzed" afterwards founder Walt Disney's death, with so many people spending time thinking about what Disney would want. "And he did not want this to occur at Apple," Cook said.

Former Vice President and current Apple board member Al Gore took the stage as so then. And Apple's head of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, who worked with Jobs on such popular products as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, spoke too.