Obituary: Steve Jobs (redacted & retracted)

This one scores a huge OOPS from the Bloomberg camp. I was not aware of it but apparently it is common practice of various media organizations to maintain a current obit, for well known public figures. I guess it falls under the concept of always having you resume’ up to date? Well in any event some accidently hit the publish button after making a few changes and well this is what appeared briefly on Bloomberg’s news wire.

The only reason I placed a copy here is should the gaff accidentally disapear from public circulation it will be preserved fro all to remember.

Steve Jobs obituary:

JOB, STEVE. APPLE FOUNDER, TECH VISIONARY. UPDATED AUGUST 2008

HOLD FOR RELEASE – DO NOT USE – HOLD FOR RELEASE – DO NOT USE

Steve Jobs’s birthday: Feb. 24, 1955

BIO UPDATED AS OF 2008, by Connie Guglielmo

APPLE PR CONTACTS: Katie Cotton — -redacted- and Steve Dowling: -redacted- or -redacted-

People to contact for comment:

– Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: -redacted-

– Jon Rubinstein, former head of Apple’s iPod division. He’s now

chairman at Palm. Contact Lynn Fox in PR.

– Heidi Roizen: venture capitalist who once dated Jobs: -redacted- or -redacted-. Heidi knows a lot of Silicon

Valley insiders and may put us in touch with others, including

A.C. Mike Markkula, the first VC to back Apple.

– Larry Ellison of Oracle (one of his best friends); contact

Deborah Hellinger in Oracle PR. -redacted-, -redacted-

– Jerry Brown (personal friend) and California AG. Try GARETH

LACY at -redacted- IN OAKLAND; -redacted- CELL, -redacted- or press office: -redacted-

– Al Gore: member of Apple’s board of directors

– Bill Gates: Microsoft was among the first developers of Mac

software

– Bob Iger at Disney: who bought Pixar from Jobs

– Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and member of Apple’s board. Send

note to -redacted- or try David Krane: -redacted- or -redacted-

– Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corp. (Apple began using Intel

chips in its Macs in 2006). Contact Tom Beermann: -redacted- or

Bill Calder on -redacted-. Both in Intel PR

– Scott McNealy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Contact Shawn

Dainas in PR: -redacted-

– John Lassiter and Ed Catmull: Pixar-nee-Disney executives. Try

Zenia Mucha, -redacted- or Jonathan Friedland, -redacted-, in

corporate PR at Disney.

– Guy Kawasaki, one of the first Apple evangelists. -redacted- or -redacted-

– Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, who bought an early circuit

board for the game Breakout from Jobs and Wozniak. (pr is being

handled by his daughter, Alisa Bushnell. her cell is: -redacted-; work is -redacted- work/message;-redacted-)

To contact the reporter on this story:

Connie Guglielmo in San Francisco at-redacted- or -redacted-

To contact the editor responsible for this story:

Cesca Antonelli at -redacted- or -redacted-

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