BBC BREAKFAST: Steve Jobs is dead. Apple co-founder has died at 56 - October 6, 2011 (HD)

BBC BREAKFAST opening OCTOBER 6, 2011 AT 6.00 the day when Steve Jobs died...

World and business leaders have paid tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who has died at 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev said Mr Jobs had changed the world.

Microsoft's Bill Gates said it had been "an insanely great honour" to work with him. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg remembered his "mentor and friend".

The Twitter microblog site struggled to cope with the traffic of tributes.

Apple itself said Mr Jobs had been "the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives" and had made the world "immeasurably better".

Thousands of celebrities and ordinary people went on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to record their tributes and memories of the man behind products such as the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.


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[AreWeNow]

R.I.P Steve Jobs

[nanky432]

Now that he has shed is human form he can now finally become is most powerful creation the iJobs 2.0.3

[JOOP60606]

@nanky432 hahaha good i like it

[toutpardonner]

why do they all look so happy?

[JacksonHeaven1]

@mediaprobe why did he die, not how did he die.

[mediaprobe]

@JacksonHeaven1 1. cancer

2.read the description next time -.-

[MMOTotal]

"Good Morning and welcome to..."

It really wasn't a great morning.

[JacksonHeaven1]

@rubyruben1 good question

[rubyruben1]

why did he die?

[boringlyawesum]

jobs is to edison what wozniak is to tesla