Steve Jobs calls family of teenager killed for iPod

Iria · Jul 7, 2005, 07:01 PM

As Errol Rose made preparations on Monday to bury his 15-year-old son, Christopher, who was killed last week in Brooklyn during a fight over an iPod, he received a telephone call from a stranger. The man spoke in tones that the grieving father said had momentarily quieted his anguish.

The stranger, Rose soon learned, was Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, the company that makes the iPod.

"I didn't know who he was," Rose said yesterday. "He called me on my cellphone, at 4 maybe. Or maybe it was 5." Rose said he had stopped noticing the passage of time since his son was killed.

The men spoke for a few minutes.

Calling him by his first name, Jobs asked how Rose was doing, he said, and conveyed his sympathies. "He told me that he understood my pain," Rose said. "He told me if there is anything--anything--anything he could do, to not be afraid to call him. It really lightened me a bit."

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Ev!L-aLphA · Jul 7, 2005, 07:11 PM

thats nice of him!

only if rockstar would do that now to the "gta" victims :-|

no but seriously thats really nice of steve atleast they didint just ignore it :-)

nitrousoxide52 · Jul 7, 2005, 07:13 PM

It's also kind of weird, he could have atleast told who he was.

Mazuko · Jul 7, 2005, 08:02 PM

Sometimes people do things like that for the sake of doing things like that and not for publicity, which is what is going to happen now.

Zelig · Jul 7, 2005, 09:33 PM

Steve Jobs is a cool guy... when they had the prize for the 1 millionth song downloaded from iTunes (something like that, I'm sketchy on details) he phoned the winner right when the song was downloaded, at like 2 in the morning.

WaltC · Jul 7, 2005, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by nitrousoxide52

It's also kind of weird, he could have atleast told who he was.

As news.com reports it, this is one of the strangest tales I've ever heard...

You are called on your cell phone after the murder of your child, by a stranger whose voice you don't recognize and who fails to identify himself, and you don't ask, "Who is this, please?"...?

Hello? Something's missing here as this has been reported. The story reads as if the stranger on the phone never identifies himself--so how does the grieving father *ever* know who he was speaking to?

The story doesn't fill us in on that little detail, but rather skips to the father saying warm and fuzzy things about the unknown voice on the phone--ostensibly after someone else has supposedly told him at some point who the stranger was--the stranger who reportedly never bothered to identify himself.

I hate to be cynical, but this story smacks of PR spin from an Apple deathly afraid of having negative connotation being spun around the iPod. As written, it surely doesn't ring true, imo.

Jul 7, 2005, 07:01 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	Steve Jobs calls family of teenager killed for iPod As Errol Rose made preparations on Monday to bury his 15-year-old son, Christopher, who was killed last week in Brooklyn during a fight over an iPod, he received a telephone call from a stranger. The man spoke in tones that the grieving father said had momentarily quieted his anguish. The stranger, Rose soon learned, was Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computer, the company that makes the iPod. "I didn't know who he was," Rose said yesterday. "He called me on my cellphone, at 4 maybe. Or maybe it was 5." Rose said he had stopped noticing the passage of time since his son was killed. The men spoke for a few minutes. Calling him by his first name, Jobs asked how Rose was doing, he said, and conveyed his sympathies. "He told me that he understood my pain," Rose said. "He told me if there is anything--anything--anything he could do, to not be afraid to call him. It really lightened me a bit." __________ Read More / Source: News.com

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Zelig DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,160 Rep Power: 53 System Specs	Steve Jobs is a cool guy... when they had the prize for the 1 millionth song downloaded from iTunes (something like that, I'm sketchy on details) he phoned the winner right when the song was downloaded, at like 2 in the morning. __________________ --