Eddy Cue Tells Anecdote About Steve Jobs & The Bondi Blue iMac [Video]

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Calling it an “honor, a privielege and truly from my heart to Steve,” Apple VP and kahuna beach moondog Eddy Cue accepted a posthumous award on Steve Jobs’s behalf last night, as the Apple founder was inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame. And Cue had a pretty cool anecdote to tell about Steve.

You can see the video for yourself above, but TechCrunch has transcribed the anecdote for us:

“We were launching the iMac, in Bondi blue…we were doing this at the Flint center in Cupertino. Unfortunately we couldn’t get the venue, Stomp was there the night before, we were launching it the next day and we could only get in at midnight. So we come in at midnight, we were going to do rehearsals…one of the things we wanted to do was have the iMac come out from the stage as he was introducing it. And we’d shine some lights. I was sitting out in the crowd…and the iMac comes out and the light comes on it and I said “wow, that is so cool!”

Steve stops the whole thing and says “stop, this sucks!” He says, “it should come out at the side where you can see the color, the light should be shining at this side and when it turns to the front that’s when it should turn on…30 minutes later we do the whole thing again and when I see it come out I said ‘wow, he was absolutely right, it’s incredible’. He had that level of detail for everything he did, and that’s what he taught us.”

Cue said that his friendship with Steve Jobs mattered more than he could say. ““Even in my darkest days, he was there for me. When my wife had cancer, he was there for us… And in many ways, she’s here tonight because of him, so thank you, Steve,” Cue told the Bay Area businessmen gathered to honor Steve.

Eddy Cue’s part in the proceedings start at the 10:56 mark in the video above.

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