South Florida Shoppers React to News of Steve Jobs' Death

Customers and employees filled South Florida Apple stores Wednesday night after hearing of the Apple co-founder's death

South Florida Apple stores were packed with shocked employees and customers after hearing about Steve Jobs' death, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.

"I heard all this stuff about him being sick and everything so I guess it's inevitable but it's still a shock," Jesse Thomas, an Apple customer at Town Center in Boca Raton, told the newspaper.

Over two dozen customers and employees gathered inside the Apple store in Town Center on Wednesday night, reading the news of Job's death on store laptops, iPhones, and iPads, the Sentinel reported.

The Apple co-founder, 56, is being remembered as a visionary who saw the future and led the world to it. Under Jobs, Apple grew into the most valuable technology company in the world with a market value of $351 billion, MSNBC said.

Doug Eilertson, of Akron, Ohio, told the Sentinel that he thought the Apple store in the Galleria in Fort Lauderdale didn't do its best to commemorate Jobs' death, as customers claimed the only tribute to him was his photograph and the years "1955-2011" displayed on computer screens.

"That's it," Eilertson said to the Sentinel. "I think they should have given a tribute to him."

Eilertson told the Sentinel that he believes a "true entrepreneur" such as the Apple co-founder "can never be replaced."

John Bukovac heard the news while shopping at Town Center with his 13-year-old son Dane.

"He was one of a kind," Bukovac told the Sentinel. "To replace him is going to be next to impossible. However, I'm sure he left some pretty capable people behind that can probably move the company forward."

"It will be interesting to see how innovative [Apple] will be in the future," Bukovac said to the Sentinel.

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