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

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

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday October 5, 2016 @12:30PM from the rest-in-peace dept.

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... by ArmoredDragon · 2016-10-05 12:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

It was his own fault.
http://gawker.com/5849543/harv...
1. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by justthinkit · 2016-10-05 12:57 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Correlation is not causation.
  
  (1) he chose alternative treatments
  (2) he died
  (3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
  
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2. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-05 13:05 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I agree with OP for different reasons. It's his own damn fault. If he wasn't born, he wouldn't have died. My casual observation over the last several decades has indicated a perfect and direct correlation between being alive and being dead. Generally, I have found that if you hadn't wasted time being alive in the first place, you don't die, and therefore you have the substantial benefit of being able to ignore the Alex Trebek life insurance commercials.
3. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Morpeth · 2016-10-05 13:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Had a friend many years ago who died of a (generally) treatable cancer because she didn't want to deal with traditional "evil" western medicine and tried all kinds of weird alternative therapies, none of which worked. Then she decided to go BACK for chemo, etc, but by that point it was too late.
  She was a really neat, kind person too, sounds stupid I gues --, but I'm still pissed at her to this day for dying when she really didn't have to.
  
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4. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by ArmoredDragon · 2016-10-05 15:16 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Correlation is not causation.
  (1) he chose alternative treatments
  (2) he died
  (3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
  Absolutely false. Read the link I posted, specifically this bit:
  
  The condition might have been nipped in the bud if Jobs had acted right away. Jobs's cancer manifest in neuroendocrine tumors, which are typically far less lethal than the "pancreatic adenocarcinoma" that make up 95 percent of pancreatic cancer cases. Amri said neuroendocrine tumors are so "mild" that...
  "In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100% over a decade...
  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.
  Jobs ultimately had a liver transplant, which meant that he gave it a TON of time to metastasize rather than having it removed.
5. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Applehu+Akbar · 2016-10-05 15:23 · Score: 2
  
  "Correlation is not causation. "
  But the correlation between ignoring cancer as it riddles your body and an early death certainly is.
6. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-05 16:24 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  > 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.
7. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Maritz · 2016-10-05 23:31 · Score: 2
  
  Correlation is not necessarily causation. Often, a correlation does indicate a cause. Now we have spastics going around saying "correlation is not causation" as if it never is, which is... fucking stupid.
  
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It's the day innovation died at Apple by JoeyRox · 2016-10-05 12:45 · Score: 4, Insightful

While Jobs was alive I would comment to my tech friends that his influence on Apple and the industry was overstated. Five years after his death I've come to realize his influence was understated. We need someone like Jobs - not just to think big - but to be the person at the top who wont accept mediocrity and will drive thousands of employees to bring great ideas to the market.
1. Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple by JoeyRox · 2016-10-05 12:59 · Score: 2
  
  gave us the first smartphone that didn't suck, but really what else?
  
  That's a nice equation Albert but really what else do you have for us?
2. Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple by frnic · 2016-10-05 16:53 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Like so many geeks, you just don't get it. So what, he didn't improve tech. He made products that people love. |He made products that he loved. He brought a company back from bankruptcy to being the most valuable company in the world - not because the tech is good or bad, but because he knew what people wanted before they wanted it.
3. Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple by Tablizer · 2016-10-05 17:13 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  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.
  
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4. Re:It's the day innovation died at Apple by hcs_$reboot · 2016-10-05 17:56 · Score: 2
  
  relatively offensive.
  
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Re:I do too by macs4all · 2016-10-05 14:30 · Score: 4, Interesting

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...
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Re:I do too by Opportunist · 2016-10-05 20:19 · Score: 2

That's happy Zombie Steve day, you heretic!

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Meh. by scubamage · 2016-10-06 02:00 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't get why people think Steve Jobs is so great. It's not like he found the cure for cancer or something.