Shoppers glanced at the small bunch of flowers propped against the glass, others carefully framed the small note in the center of their iPhone screen.
“Thank you for everything Mr. Jobs,” the note read.
The news of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death circulated around the Apple store in Cherry Creek Shopping Center, as customers and employees trickled between the tables of laptops, iPods and iPhones.
Aaron Huebner, 31, drove from Aurora to place flowers in front of the store.
“He took the world from the computer on the table to the computer in our pockets,” Huebner said.
Jobs, Huebner said, transformed what used to be “cumbersome” machines into “technology that just worked.”
Kevin O’Grady and his 2-year-old daughter, Nora, waited outside the store as his wife purchased a new laptop — the latest in their wide collection of Apple products. Nora’s favorite is an iPad the family recently bought.
“It’s the passing of an icon as far as technology goes,” O’Grady said.
O’Grady said that many Apple lovers will be hit hard by Jobs’ death, as most felt connected to him through the technology.
“I don’t think it will affect their business a whole lot,” O’Grady said. “But I hope the creativity continues.”
Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794 or jsteffen@denverpost.com
