How Did The Chinese React to Steve Jobs’ Death (Video)

By Star Chang, posted Oct 6, 2011 at 11:27 PM, 1,964 views,

How Did The Chinese React to Steve Jobs’ Death (Video)

Chinese Apple fans expressed grief and sadness over the death of Steve Jobs. Apple fans placed white flowers (used traditionally for funerals in China), photos of Jobs, cards with handwritten messages and even real apples outside of Apple stores in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, to commemorate the legendary man. Jobs’ death ranked as the day’s most popular topic on Sina Weibo, the country’s most popular microblogging site, garnering more than 30 million posts on Thursday morning, just hours after Apple announced the breaking news. By evening, it reach 65 million posts and still counting. The immense popularity of Apple’s products have led many people to believe China is becoming Apple’s largest market, so it’s no surprise that the Chinese was shocked and upset over Jobs’ death …

This video is in Cantonese language.

This video is mainly in Chinese language. You can watch a English version at this link.

This tribute video was made a month ago by Youku, the popular video hosting site in China. Full of sincerity, a must watch video !

China’s microblogging site Sina Weibo has created a special page for tributes, and Weibo’s parent company Sina.com has also made a separate commemoration page with articles and photos of the Apple founder. In a survey conducted by Sina Weibo, 52 percent of more than 111,770 respondents said they were “shocked” upon first hearing the news of Jobs’ death. Another 36 percent said they were “sad,” 22 percent said “regrettable but expected” and 16 percent said that they “could not believe it.”

The survey shows that most of the Chinese were shocked upon first hearing of Steve Jobs’ death.

Here are some of the sincere comments made by the Chinese fellows :

“I was really shocked when I woke up and heard the news in the morning. It is like a giant star falling from the sky.”

“His creativity and imagination astonished the whole world. His death means the end of an era.”

“I will never see him introducing his new products in simple dress and with powerful and enlightening words. Alas !”

“I now understand why the iPhone 5 can only be called iPhone 4S, because that stands for ‘iPhone for Steve’. I will buy a new iPhone 4S to remember Jobs.”

“God wanted to use the iPhone 5, so he took Jobs back right after the iPhone 4S launch.”

“We pay respect to Jobs because he devoted his whole life to making breakthroughs and innovations, which all Chinese people should learn from.”

“The soul of Jobs is wandering in the sky and looking for the next foothold. Today’s China already has the soil for innovation and will see its own Jobs in the future.”

In the second quarter of this year, China, for the first time ever, surpassed the United States as the world’s largest computer market. China is also home to the world’s largest number of registered web users, with an online population of 485 million. However, the country has yet to produce an iconic visionary on the level of Jobs, a fact that Chinese netizens have widely discussed since the news of Steve Jobs’ death first broke.

Beijing were not allowing mourners to leave flowers outside the Apple store, so all flowers were shift back inside by the blue shirt employees.

There is no official Apple Store in the city of Chengdu, but the Apple fans from Sichuan Province still send condolence to SJ in one of the authorized reseller shop.

Fans leaves condolent notes to pay tribute to Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs at Apple retail store in Hong Kong.

The note was written: ‘Mr Jobs, you are my son’s idol, you have given a good life energy to humanity, you should recevie a Nobel prize for technology.’

A note was written: ‘Steve, continue to change the world in heaven.’

One more thing …

A nineteen-year-old Hong Kong’s student, came up with the idea of incorporating Steve Jobs’ silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo, symbolizing both Jobs’ departure and lingering presence at the core of the company. The design spread like wildfire in cyberspace, drawing hundreds of thousands of posts, and even commemorative caps and T-shirts peddled on eBay featuring his design. The young design kid who first created the logo after Jobs’ stepped down as Apple’s head in August, said it hadn’t made much of a splash until he reposted the logo on Thursday. He had received a job offer after the logo became an internet hit.