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Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery
Zycom writes "Reuters reports that doctors successfully removed a cancerous tumor from the pancreas of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. In an e-mail he sent out from his hospital bed after the surgery he explained the disease, saying, "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)." He will not need to have any chemotherapy or radiation therapy and has an excellent prognosis. While he is recuperating, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the company."
I would like to ask what would happen if, one day, Steve Jobs wasn't there for Apple anymore, will it still be as innovative as before? (not that I wish anything bad happens to him)
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All kidding aside, I'm more than glad he's going to be okay. He's done more for the computer industry than most.
I've had a love/hate relationship with Macs (as with windows), but I still wouldn't wish this on anyone. It's good to hear that he is recovering.
Get well Steve. You are an inspiration, and someone to look up to in the industry.
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
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All competition put aside, the modern IT world wouldn't be the same without you. If you hadn't dragged Apple kicking and screaming into the new millennium, who would have given Microsoft a run for its money (until Linux on the desktop comes)?
As a child of a twice cancer survivour, I wish all of your family well, I know they are praying for you (Even if they aren't religious).
It sure looks that way. The upside to having Jobs pay attention to so many details in a new product launch is you know what you're getting when you buy an Apple product. The downside is there's no one who knows what to do when he's gone because he's micro-managed everything.
It's very hard to start a company that lasts more than 5 years. It's even harder to start a company that survives its founder's leaving.
Hate to break it to you, but Steve, along with many other technology CEOs are often heavily involved with certain projects and usually decide which direction the company will go in terms of research and focus. The iMac was Steve's baby and from what I understand, he was also heavily involved in the development of the iPod. This includes making design decisions and influencing how the engineers accomplish certain tasks. Ever wonder where Keynote came from? That's right, Steve wanted a presentation program he could use for his keynotes and managed to get some developers within Apple to write one according to his specifications. Finally, who killed off the greatest PDA to have ever existed? Steve. That's why news of a tech company's CEO will typically make slashdot.
I am aghast at the some of the remarks to this news.
First of all, Steve is a father to several children and is sick with a serious illness. This alone should cause you to some show sort of decency in your remarks.
I have a nephew who is fighting Leukemia. When you visit someone you know or who is a member of your family with cancer, it is hardly funny.
The Slashdot community may not respect Steve Jobs for what he did for modern computing. That is their ignorance. I just cannot understand the callousness of some people who poke fun other's tragedies.
I wish S.J. a speedy recovery, foremost for his family. I do not know him, but I know the result of his imagination. We should all strive to have that impact on the world.
Never said anything about being cured. I seriously hope he makes a full recovery without and remission. Cancer is such a terrible disease for everybody it afflicts, whether it be the CEO of a major corporation or a small child.
Created the notion that computers should be well designed, not just raw utilitarian functionalism?
You might disagree, and you're entitled to. Me, I think Jobs has immeasurably improved my experience of using computers.
What has he done? Re-energized a bunch of creative engineers and designers. Led them to take on the world and design insanely great products.
Is he a coder? Or an engineer? Or a designer? No. He's a visionary. We need all those sorts of people to advance the state of any art.
You are, of course, free to hate his vision. I do not. : )
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Offtopic. That's funny.
Reality distortion field. He makes people believe anything can happen.
And then it does.
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
Without Steve, a lot of us wouldn't have the jobs we do have (or don't have?) right aboot now - nor would we be using some of the taken-for-granted-now-but-revolutionary-at-the-tim e gadgets that we rely on every day.
Get well soon, Steve. If the comments to this post are any gauge, you have the support of the nerd community across the globe.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
BTW, if you are going to give money to a cancer survivor non-profit in anybody's name, how about you do it in the name of a non-megalomaniac who can't afford to buy his way out of relatively trivial cancerous tumors?
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
If not I'll gladly take on that responsibility.
It would be a hard job. Steve Jobs is not one of those CEOs that people resent for pulling down zillions of dollars for doing basically nothing all day. Running Apple would be like herding cats.
It would be a lot easier to run Dell, or even HP. You'd be under less pressure to push the envelope.
Unfortunately, there is not much economic incentive to find a cure for Diabetes...they just make too much damn money off those insulin shots.
Your statement presumes that those who currently sell insulin would be able to prevent the sellers of a cure from getting it to market.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Did you just seriously imply that you need to "talk to developers at WWDC" like you do(nice horn tootin' by the way) to know Jobs micromanages? It's probably his most infamous personality quirk, aside from his massive ego, aka the Steve Reality Distortion Field.
You missed my point entirely. The original Jobs Fanboy said "ohmygosh, because, without Steve, we wouldn't have had..."
Which is absurd, and ignores the fact that even if Jobs pushes his nose into everything, at the end of the day, 98% of the work was done by other people. I can't stand it when people attribute the end product entirely to CEOs...
Please help metamoderate.
It just goes to show us, he's as nuts and excited about technology as the rest of us are. (I'm sure at least half of /. if they were in the same position would mention how they got an e-mail like that out).
I find it interesting that the New York Times version of the story is titled, 'Apple Chief Has Emergency Cancer Surgery' seems they had to throw that 'Emergency' in there. The other places I have seen the story never mention 'Emergency' in the title or the body of the article.
"Bill Gates will get cancer in about 10 years time."
Just think of all the money that will get dumped in to cancer research then...
Geez, ever hear of gallows humor? Who among us hasn't lost someone dear to cancer, or has someone close to them battling the disease. Yeah, it happens. I haven't seen a single post that wished ill upon Steve Jobs. Get a sense of humor... by the way, they say laughing reduces the risk of cancer. So consider this group therapy.