Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MacRumors: As he has done over the past four years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has shared a tribute to the late Steve Jobs, touching on the importance of remembering the Apple co-founder and former CEO today, which marks the fifth anniversary of his death on October 5, 2011. In previous years, Apple also updated its website to remember Jobs, creating a two-minute slideshow of his various keynote presentations and most famous audio clips on the one year anniversary of his death. In the days following his passing, Apple started posting "Remembering Steve" comments from fans on its website. The company noted that well over one million submissions came in for the project, all from well-wishing fans in the wake of Jobs' losing battle with pancreatic cancer. "'Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.' Remembering Steve and the many ways he changed our world," tweeted Apple CEO Tim Cook with a picture of Jobs. In remembrance of Jobs, Recode has compiled several of Steve Job's best interviews conducted at the D: All Things Digital conference. You can watch Recode's reflection video directly on YouTube here.

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I'll probably get modded troll but...

[ArmoredDragon]

It was his own fault.

http://gawker.com/5849543/harv...

Re:I'll probably get modded troll but...

[Anonymous Coward]

> However he figured alternative medicine is better and tried some stupid hippie vegetarian diet thinking it would work, and needless to say it didn't.

He had an operation to remove his pancreas months after his diagnosis. That was years before he had his liver replaced.

> In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100% over a decade...

Steve Jobs did live 8 after his diagnosis. Note that the initial diagnosis was likely not accurate, because by the time he was operated for, they found the cancer has been spreading for a long time *before* his 2003 diagnosis.

I wish people who are so ignorant, wouldn't be so quick to condemn. But that's the Internet, where it's ok to blame cancer on the cancer victims.

Re:I do too

[macs4all]

Hopefully the rabid fanbois can handle a little truth. The truth is, Steve Jobs was a real asshole

I only met SJ one time: In 1978, when he was at the Apple Booth at a trade show in Chicago. I was working at a small I dependent computer store at the time. We sold Apple ][s, as well as S-100 bus systems by Polymorphic and Vector Graphics, plus proprietary x86 systems by Compucolor and a company called DTC, that had a black on paperwhite monitor..

Anyway, I walked up to Jobs and introduced myself and shook his hand. What I received in return was a withering glare and immediate dismissal. I got the feeling that Jobs wanted to go wash the "common man" off his hand...

So although I admire Jobs for his obvious talents and persistence-of-vision, I am under no illusions of hero-worship of Steve Jobs, the man.

Jef Raskin, OTOH, enthusiastically grabbed me by the collar (he didn't know me from Adam!), and showed me in detail what was doubtless confidential documentation on an upcoming version of Apple DOS, which hadn't even been released yet...

Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple

[Tablizer]

Steve Jobs didn't do anything but steal from others.

He was a great coordinator of ideas and technology. He sensed the right time the market and matching tech capability was ready for something.

He brought out the first practical GUI computer (Xerox Star was clunky), helped start the 3D animation craze (Toy Story) when everyone else was spooked by the financial failure of Tron, simplified music players, looked at the physical keyboard of the then popular Blackberry, and said, "Fuck the physical keyboard, it's a dinosaur!" (paraphrased).

And he also had a nose for cool designs, like the "Daisy" iMac.