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It’s not the first time iTunes chief Eddy Cue has stepped in to accept an honor on behalf of his former boss, but this time, the Apple senior VP gave an emotional speech about Steve Jobs at the same time.
MacRumors reported Tuesday that Apple Senior Vice-President of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue has stepped forward to accept another prestigious honor on behalf of the late Steve Jobs, this time for a Hall of Fame event in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Last Thursday, the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame posthumously inducted the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs into its ranks, an award ceremony the Bay Area Council has now made available as a nearly 15-minute YouTube video.
During his acceptance speech, Cue fondly recalls how Jobs inspired him to “do what you love” while preparing to launch the original iMac in 1998, including one anecdote about the rehearsal the night before the keynote.
“As I was coming in today, I was trying to remember a story of the first time I learned that from Steve,” Cue recalls. “We were launching the iMac, in Bondi blue… we were doing this at the Flint center in Cupertino. Unfortunately we couldn’t get the venue, Stomp was there the night before, we were launching it the next day and we could only get in at midnight. So we come in at midnight, we were going to do rehearsals… one of the things we wanted to do was have the iMac come out from the stage as he was introducing it. And we’d shine some lights. I was sitting out in the crowd… and the iMac comes out and the light comes on it and I said, ‘Wow, that is so cool!’
“Steve stops the whole thing and says, ‘Stop, this sucks!,” Cue continues. “He says, “It should come out at the side where you can see the color, the light should be shining at this side and when it turns to the front that’s when it should turn on. 30 minutes later, we do the whole thing again and when I see it come out I said ‘Wow, he was absolutely right, it’s incredible.’ He had that level of detail for everything he did, and that’s what he taught us.”
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(Video & image courtesy of Bay Area Council)
