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

Posted by BeauHD on 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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  1. I'll probably get modded troll but... by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was his own fault.

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

    1. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by Morpeth · · 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.

      --

      'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
    2. Re:I'll probably get modded troll but... by ArmoredDragon · · 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.