Here's a cute story, Steve Jobs fixed Google's app logo (because the yellow was a little off)

I'm not feeling that yellow, Vic.

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(CBS) - Tales of Steve Jobs' impact on the tech industry have been circulating for years. Now that he's retired and stepping out of the public eye, his contemporaries are getting nostalgic.   

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Jobs is one the biggest tech legends of our time and only comparable to Microsoft founder Bill Gates. While Gates is more reserved and straight edge, Jobs is colorful and eccentric. It's only natural that with his retirement, the tech industry is retelling their best encounters with Jobs during his tenure at Apple.

One of the most amazing stories we've seen making rounds was told by Google's Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra.

Delivered via his Google+ page and titled "Icon Ambulance," Gundotra talks about a phone call he received from Jobs on a Sunday morning in January of 2008.

"So Vic, we have an urgent issue, one that I need addressed right away. I've already assigned someone from my team to help you, and I hope you can fix this tomorrow," Jobs told Gundotra. "I've been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I'm not happy with the icon. The second O in Google doesn't have the right yellow gradient. It's just wrong and I'm going to have Greg fix it tomorrow. Is that okay with you?"

You read that correctly. Jobs had Apple's Greg Christie fix Google's logo. How incredible. This interaction is akin to the Beatles revising a Rolling Stones song. (Okay, I realize how uber geeky fangirl-esque that last statement is, but no apologies here.)

Gundotra ended the post with a nod to Jobs' leadership at Apple, "CEOs should care about details. Even shades of yellow. On a Sunday."

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[gadfly65]

It's too bad he didn't fix the performance of Google's apps - they're so crappy I just went back to accessing Google and Gmail through Safari.

[tmittelstaed]

The stupid thing about this story is that Jobs didn't just fix it without comment. A registered company trademark has a color scheme defined in the registration and the logo color is either correct or it isn't. My take on it is that it was more important to Jobs for Google to know that Jobs fixed the error than for the error to be fixed. Jobs is a glory-hound and stories like this just confirm it.

And as for Jobs stepping out of the public eye if you believe that I have some cheap beachfront property in Florida to sell you. Now that he's free of some of his company responsibilities he will have even more time to run around making a fool of himself.

[jscott418-21618367473133020464]

This is how Jobs thinks. Everything that goes on his hardware is subject to Apple's approval. Now, some may find that too controlling and in some ways I agree that Apple is very much a controlling Company.
But the positive about that control is a very fluid hardware and software. Just as Android has issues because its much more open, and even Microsoft is somewhat hands off on third party applications. Apple has always been just the opposite. Some like that some don't.

[Jaylah54]

My computer must be malfunctioning. I got to the end of the article before I found anything "cute" (or "amazing") about it.

[jschufm]

Steve Jobs was a micro-manager, obsessed with job-security, resulting in the failure of open software systems and interoperability between platforms! He did the world no favors! P.S. Gates wasn't any better!