Your comment really resonated with me. I'm no Apple fanatic, but I too am far more saddened by this news than I would have believed. I wonder what else he would have come up with if he lived another 20 years? I'm sad I'll never get to find out.
Perhaps you really do never understand the gravity of losing something until you lose it.
You can see the hero image which was in use before the announcement of Steve's passing here[2] — look at the filename.
[1] http://www.med.unc.edu/webguide/policies/hero-graphics
[2] https://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/home/images/animation/fallba...
(In the industry, we call this "the art of self-trolling".)
I give you a sincere tip of my nerdhat for pursuit of accuracy even when it's kinda awkward.