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  (CBS) - Nearly a month after the death of Steve Jobs, many of us are still reflecting on his life and legacy. The Sunday New York Times published the eulogy delivered on Oct. 16 by Steve Jobs' sister, Mona Simpson, at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. "I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him. They're not periods of years, but of states of being. His full life. His illness. His dying," said Simpson in her eulogy. Steve Jobs: Revelations from a tech giant Steve Jobs: 1955 - 2011 Some of the things she learned about him was the conscious effort that Jobs put into everything he did in life. She would write that he was "never embarrassed to work hard." Simpson wrote of how Jobs was never ashamed of failure. And how her brother "cultivated whimsy." "He tried. He always, always tried, and always with love at the core of that ...

Apple stock dipped as much as 7.39 percent Wednesday, stripping $24 billion from its market cap in after-hours trading, after its iconic leader Steve Jobs announced he was stepping down as CEO amid longstanding health concerns. Under Jobs, whose vision is credited with delivering an unprecedented string of breakthrough products from the Apple II to the iPad, Apple had surged from near bankruptcy in the late 1990s to the most valuable company in the world this month, briefly topping Exxon Mobile. Along the way, it eclipsed long time rival Microsoft, and it most recent adversary, Google. It had closed the day at $376.18, up 0.69% from yesterday, before sliding on the news. Analysts downplayed the drop, noting that Jobs was long expected to step away from the CEO role. “Frankly it removes an overhang. People didn’t know when this would happen or when the day would come. It’s probably the best outcome,” Michael Walker, Portfolio Manager for WP Stewart told Reuters. Ultimately, Walker said,...

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs today appeared at a software developers' conference in San Francisco to introduce a new operating system called Lion and a wireless service called iCloud, but his mere presence at the event dwarfed the announcement itself. After several years of stories about his failing health and the self-imposed medical leave of absence he announced earlier this year, he got a standing ovation just for being there. "We love you," shouted someone in the crowd. "I appreciate it very much," Jobs answered. Jobs, the mastermind behind the iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTunes and so much more of the iconic company's identity, has become such a looming figure in popular technology that you'd think he invented the apple, not just headed the company. People emailing or Tweeting from the conference said he looked gaunt, though Jobs "looks extremely thin," ABC News correspondent Neil Karlinsky wrote in email from the audience, but added, ...