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Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant
CNet is reporting that the hospital where Apple's CEO reportedly got a liver transplant two months ago has now confirmed the truth of these reports. "Steve Jobs underwent his liver transplant about two months ago at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, the hospital confirmed Tuesday. Jobs, who returned to work Apple's campus in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday after a six-month medical leave, 'is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis,' according to a statement by Dr. James D. Eason, the program director of the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute. ... While Eason said the confirmation was being provided with Jobs's approval, he cited patient confidentially in saying that he could not reveal any further information on the specifics of Jobs's surgery."
Yeah, that would be the decade when Jobs was out of Apple
You like OS X and Cocoa? That was the kind of platform that Xerox PARC had developed in the 1970's, only what PARC had was even easier to develop for and better integrated.
Jobs ripped off the appearance and functionality of PARC's systems, but none of the elegant underlying architecture. The result was the Macintosh and its assembly language toolboxes. It gave Apple a quick time to market, driving out of business all the companies with better designs, but left them with a lousy architectural legacy.
Jobs then left and ripped off PARC again, this time with NeXT. NeXT copied more of PARC's software architecture (although he still didn't quite get it right). That then became OS X and Cocoa.
And these days, we have to listen to how Jobs supposedly revolutionized the computer industry. But if Apple hadn't ripped off PARC in the 1980's, we could have had other companies ship the equivalent of OS X and Cocoa in the late 80's/early 90's instead of Apple shipping it a decade later.
That's what you should feel anger at.