
The funeral of the former head of the American Corporation of Apple Steve Jobs took place on Friday to American time with his loved ones, the website of the American newspaper Wall Street Journal reports with reference to an unnamed source.
The publication does not report the exact place of the ceremony and the time of its holding. Apple said that public events dedicated to Jobs's funeral were not planned, RIA Novosti notes.
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Earlier, the portal about the contemporary art of Artlyst, referring to an unnamed source, reported that Jobs would be buried in accordance with Buddhist traditions .
Jobs accepted Buddhism in 1973 during his trip to India, for the sake of which he abandoned the humanitarian college in the United States. The co -founder of Apple came to his homeland with a chopped head and in traditional Indian clothes.
Steve Jobs, a world -famous innovator in the field of technology, died on Wednesday evening after a long illness at the age of 56. For the first time, Jobs became known about a serious illness in 2003 - he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Although this disease is usually deadly, Jobs had an operating form of cancer, and in 2004 he underwent surgery.
The speculation regarding Jobs’s health reached the apogei after the Bloomberg news agency on a technical error in August 2008 published the necrologue of the head of Apple. In January 2009, Jobs again went on a six -month vacation due to illness. Then the doctors found him liver cancer. After the transplantation of the body and the rehabilitation period, Jobs returned to work. Both times throughout the treatment, Jobs continued to lead the company from home.
In August, Jobs left the post of Apple head, his place was taken by Tim Cook.