Steve Jobs' family releases emotional statement on the tenth anniversary of Apple tycoon's death: 'Memory is inadequate for what is in our hearts. We miss him profoundly'

The family of tech mogul Steve Jobs released an emotional statement on Apple's website on Tuesday to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.

Jobs died on October 5, 2011 following an eight-year battle with pancreatic cancer. 

Apple also paid tribute to its late boss with a short film posted on the front of their website, showing the highlights of Jobs' career.

The tech guru co-founded Apple in 1976, before being forced out in 1985. But he returned in 1997, and pioneered the iPhone and iPads which transformed it into the $2.3 trillion company it is today.  

The statement from Jobs' family: 'For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together. Our gratitude has become as great as our loss.

'Each of us has found his or her own path to consolation, but we have come together in a beautiful place of love for Steve, and for what he taught us.

'For all of Steve’s gifts, it was his power as a teacher that has endured. He taught us to be open to the beauty of the world, to be curious around new ideas, to see around the next corner, and most of all to stay humble in our own beginner’s mind.

Steve Jobs' family released on statement on Tuesday in honor of the 10th anniversary of his death 

The statement and a tribute video for Jobs was shared on the Apple website

'There are many things we still see through his eyes, but he also taught to look for ourselves. He gave us equipment for living, and it has served us well.

'One of our greatest sources of consolation has been our association of Steve with beauty. The sight of something beautiful — a wooded hillside, a well‑made object — recalls his spirit to us. Even in his years of suffering, he never lost his faith in the beauty of existence.

'Memory is inadequate for what is in our hearts: we miss him profoundly. We were blessed to have him as husband and father.'

Jobs with his wife Laurene Powell Jobs (far right) with their three children Eve (left center), Reed and Erin (right center) in Ravello, Italy in 2003

Jobs is pictured with his first-born daughter Lisa Brennan, who he shared with Chris-Ann Brennan, at his home in Palo Alto in 1989

Jobs and his wife Laurene are seen at a Pixar Exhibit Launch at the Museum of Modern Art in New York

The memorial video that was created featured a slideshow of pictures from Jobs' life as well as a series of his most popular quotes.

'I think you always had to be different to buy an Apple computer,' Jobs said. 'And you still have to think differently to buy an Apple computer.'

'And I think the people that do buy them, they are the people that are not just out to get a job done--they're out to change the world.'

Other friends, collaborators and fellow tech moguls also released statements in tribute to Jobs.

'You can’t be following the rules and making amazing things happen. Steve was certainly exceptional in that regard,' Michael Dell, founder of Dell Technologies said. 

Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple's former chief design officer and Jobs' close friend, released a tribute of his own to the Wall Street Journal.   

'He truly believed that by making something useful, empowering and beautiful, we express our love for humanity ... I miss Steve desperately and I will always miss not talking with him,' Ives wrote.  

Current Apple CEO Tim Cook also paid tribute to Jobs as he posted the video on Twitter and shared one of his favorite former collaborator's quotes

Current Apple CEO Tim Cook, who took over from Jobs in 2011, tweeted the tribute video and a quote from the late founder. 

 'People with passion can change the world for the better.' -- SJ,' the caption read.

 'Hard to believe it's been 10 years. Celebrating you today and always.'

Jobs was born to University of Wisconsin students Abdulfuttah Jandali and Joanna Schieble on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, but was put up for adoption.

Clara and Paul Jobs adopted the baby and gave him the name Steve Jobs.

Jobs did not meet his biological parents until he was 31, when he also met his sister, author Mona Simpson. 

His adoptive parents encouraged Jobs' future interest in technology by having him experiment with electronics in their garage.

The young Jobs grew up and went to Reed College before dropping after a short enrollment period.

Jobs created Apple with his friend computer technician Steve Wozniak, who invented the Apple Computer I in 1976

After he dropped out, Jobs began working at video game company Atari where he met computer technician Steve Wozniak. 

The pair invented the Apple Computer I in 1976 and started Apple in Jobs' garage in Silicon Valley.

Since the beginning, the company was praised for its innovative ability to make large tech devices smaller and cheaper.

But Jobs was fired by Apple just nine years later after clashing with other senior managers, following a series of failed products that were believed to be affecting the company.  

The tech guru was also facing personal family problems of his own, including a complicated relationship with his estranged daughter. 

In 1978, Jobs had a child with Chrisann Brennan named Lisa who he continually denied was his daughter and did not maintain a relationship with her for nine years. 

A couple years after leaving Apple, Jobs finally began accepting Lisa as his daughter. 

Jobs married American businesswoman Laurene Powell Jobs in 1991 and shared three children with her named Reed, Erin and Eve.

He returned to Apple in 1997 after they bought the software company NeXT, which  Jobs had founded the previous year. 

When he returned to the company in 1997, it was worth 2.3billion. By the time of his death it was worth $351billion.

As of Monday, Apple was worth more than $2.3trillion - making it the world's most valuable company. 

The new products introduced by Jobs during his second tenure as boss revolutionized the technology sector for a generation.

Perhaps most influentially, Jobs in 2001 launched the iPod, which offered '1,000 songs in your pocket' and changed the music industry landscape with iTunes.

And despite his 2003 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, Jobs continued to lead the company. 

In 2007 came the touch-screen iPhone, joined a year later by Apple's App Store, where developers could sell iPhone 'apps'. The move made the phone a device not just for making calls but also for managing money, editing photos, playing games and social networking.

And in 2010, Jobs introduced the iPad, a tablet-sized, all-touch computer that took off even though market analysts said no one really needed one.

 He died at the age of 56 on October 5, 2011. 

Jobs was known for creating revolutionary modern gadgets such as the iPod which was made in 2001

Sir Jonathan Ive WSJ Statement for 10th Anniversary of Jobs' death

Steve Jobs’ top design officer fondly remembered his ‘best friend and creative partner’ as someone who was ‘not distracted by money or power’ nearly 10 years to the day that the late Apple co-founder died of pancreatic cancer.

‘I think about Steve every day,’ writes Sir Jony Ive, the English-American industrial designer, was Apple’s chief design officer who helped create the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

He also helped design Apple's massive circular campus, Apple Park, in Cupertino, California.

Ive publicly addresses Jobs’ death for the first time on Monday, writing in WSJ. Magazine: 'I can talk happily for hours describing the remarkable man I loved so deeply.'

He poignantly recalls the last moments he spent with Jobs.

'Steve's last words to me were that he would miss talking together,' Ive writes.

'I was sitting on the floor next to his bed, my back against the wall.

'After he died, I walked out into the garden. I remember the sound of the latch on the wooden door as I gently pulled it closed.'

Ive recalls: 'In the garden, I sat and thought how talking often gets in the way of listening and thinking.

'Perhaps that is why so much of our time together was spent quietly.

'I miss Steve desperately and I will always miss not talking with him.'

He called the 15 years he spent working alongside Jobs as ‘some of the happiest, most creative and joyful times of my life.’

'He was without doubt the most inquisitive human I have ever met,' Ive writes in the Journal.

'His insatiable curiosity was not limited or distracted by his knowledge or expertise, nor was it casual or passive.

'It was ferocious, energetic and restless. His curiosity was practiced with intention and rigor.'

Ive says Jobs’ relentless drive to create Apple products was an expression of his ‘love and appreciation for our species.’

‘He truly believed that by making something useful, empowering and beautiful, we express our love for humanity,’ according to Ives.

Ive writes that he remains close to Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.

'Our families have been close for nearly 30 years,' Ive writes.

'We have endured deaths and celebrated births. We talk all the time, often about Steve but rarely about my work with him.'

He adds: 'When her brilliant and inquisitive children ask me about their dad I just cannot help myself.

'I can talk happily for hours describing the remarkable man I loved so deeply.'