Apple Posts Video of Steve Jobs Celebration

Mr Jobs, who was adopted, was long thought to have never met his real father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, a Syrian restaurateur and casino owner who lived near Apple's headquarters in California.
Last week it emerged that in fact, after finding Joanne Schieble, his mother, and the novelist Mona Simpson, his sister, in the 1980s, Mr Jobs also discovered he had already met Mr Jandali at his restaurant.

Steve Jobs with Memorial at 1 Infinite Loop

Mr Jobs was heard discussing the subject for the first time in recordings of interviews he gave the author of his authorised biography, 'Steve Jobs', which were broadcast on CBS on Sunday evening.

"When I was looking for my biological mother, obviously I was looking for my biological father at the same time," he told Walter Isaacson. "I learned a little bit about him, and I didn't like what I learned.


It turns out he managed or owned a restaurant, and I was in the restaurant once or twice, and I remember meeting the owner, who was from Syria. I shook his hand, and he shook mine."
Mr Jobs chose not to meet him again, instead sending Miss Simpson to a cafe where Mr Jandali had begun working after leaving the restaurant. "I asked her to not tell him that we'd ever met, and not tell him anything about me," Mr Jobs said.
In an interview for CBS's 60 Minutes, Mr Isaacson said: "Mona goes to the coffee shop, meets this guy Mr Jandali who's running it, who says among other things when she asks, how sorry he is.
"Then he said that he had had another child. Mona said: 'What happened to him?' and he said: 'Oh, I don't know, we'll never hear from him again'."
Mr Jandali then said that he wished Miss Simpson could have seen him running his old Mediterranean restaurant, which he said was "one of the best in Silicon Valley".
"Everyone used to eat there," he said. "Even Steve Jobs."
As Miss Simpson stayed silent but "looked shocked", Mr Jandali added: "Yeah, he was a great tipper!", according to Mr Isaacson.
Mr Jandali, now 80, runs a casino in Reno, Nevada. In a newspaper interview in August, he spoke of his regret at losing contact with his son, whose identity he eventually discovered in recent years.

ideo, titled "Celebrating Steve," was posted on the company's home page and includes each speaker from the Wednesday event, which wasn't open to the public.
The posting of the video comes after more than two weeks of grieving for the technology icon. Immediately following Mr. Jobs's death Oct. 5 at the age of 56, thousands of fans around the world flocked to blogs, social networks and Apple's retail stores to post messages honoring Mr. Jobs and to express their condolences.
Apple's decision to publish the video comes as a highly anticipated biography of Mr. Jobs is due to begin selling by Monday. Preorders for the book, which was written by Walter Isaacson following more than 40 interviews with Mr. Jobs, have topped best-seller lists for weeks.