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Apple fans place candles in the shape of the logo of Apple Inc. at an Apple Store in Sanlitun in downtown Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 6, 2011. Many fans of Steve Jobs and Apple products came to the Apple Store in Sanlitun in Beijing at Thursday night to mourn for Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple Inc, who past away on Oct. 5, 2011. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
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By An Baijie and Wu Yiyao
BEIJING, Oct. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Apple stores in China were once again packed with people on Thursday - but this time they didn't come for any new gadget unveiled by the company, but to mourn Steve Jobs, the company's visionary who died on Wednesday at the age of 56.
In Beijing and Shanghai, emotional diehard fans came to pay tribute to the legendary figure who never came to China, but who changed people's lives here with inventions like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
"What Jobs brought us was quite different," said Tian Yang, 32, a worker with a mobile company who was paying condolences in front of the Sanlitun Apple store in downtown Beijing.
"When he showed up at each news conference with some new Apple products, I usually felt quite excited to see the innovation," Tian said.
Outside the store, a large picture with Jobs was placed on the ground as well as flowers, candles or apples with a bite taken out of them, an imitation of the company's iconic logo.
A card on top of a bunch of flowers read: "Rest in peace, Steve, you will be remembered".
Yi Ran, 64, a female artist who labeled herself an "iPhone freak", said that she burst into tears while hearing the news of Jobs' death.
"There are only three apples in the world, one with Eve, one with Newton, and the last one with Jobs," Yi said.
Zhao Wanpeng, a worker at the Sanlitun store, said that the memorial activities were being done spontaneously by fans.
