Chengdu fans mourn Steve Jobs' death

News of Steve Jobs' spread quickly around the world—and in Chengdu, where a number of Apple's iPad factories are based, mourners flocked to Apple stores to express their condolences.

Fans organized themselves via word-of-mouth (no doubt with the help of some Apple products) to set up a memorial outside an Apple "club" shop in the new Chengdu East Music Park. By late afternoon the area was filled with photos, flowers, and sticky notes on which fans had scrawled their messages.

Chinese fans of apple are known as "果粉/guo fen," a pun that translates to "apple powder."

The Wall Street Journal blog also has translated a statement on Jobs from China Mobile chairman Wang Jianzhou as well as Chinese netizens' reactions to the news as does the Ministry of Tofu blog.

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This article was posted by Jane and published October 7, 2011

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- iwoz
  October 7, 2011
- Apple workers in China react to Steve Jobs's news
  ..."Six months ago, factory workers in Suzhou poisoned two years ago by toxic chemicals at the factory wrote to Jobs directly, asking for his help in getting medical care and compensation for their illnesses and lost work time.
  They never got an answer from Jobs. Two years after the chemical exposure and many months of medical treatment later, they still say they've never heard from anyone at Apple directly.
  In fact, it took Apple more than a year to acknowledge that 137 workers got sick on the job in 2009 at a components factory run by the Taiwanese electronics supplier Wintek, working under contract with Apple."
  http://www.smh.com.au/[...]