What a loss...
My regards to his family and man, that was quick.
My regards to his family and man, that was quick.
Steve Jobs
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I am in shock. I wonder what happened! I know cancer can take you quickly, but like you said, that was fast...
cawacko
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I just read others say surviving eight years from when he was first diagnosed was pretty good. I don't know if that would be considered true or not. Just crazy that he's gone at 56. And with his mind who knows what he could have come up with next if he stayed around for another 20 years.
Bad news always spreads fast!
Billy the Great Khan
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I'm surprised he survived as long as he did. Pancreatic cancer is usually a year at most.
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wow. i didn't expect that so soon. great man, true visionary.
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Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world with a market value of $351 billion. Only Exxon Mobil, which makes it money extracting and refining oil instead of ideas, is worth more.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/05/apple-says-founder-steve-jobs-is-dead/#ixzz1ZxW1oKWE
truly impressive. love the line about oil vs. ideas.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/05/apple-says-founder-steve-jobs-is-dead/#ixzz1ZxW1oKWE
truly impressive. love the line about oil vs. ideas.
icedancer2theend
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I have two friends who knew him personally worked for him way back in the 80's- They say he was intensely intelligent and was always getting ahead of himself- that Apple was a great company to work for back then..
christiefan915
Catalyst
Yeah, remember when Patrick Swayze had it and he died after 1-1/2 years and that was beating the odds.
So true, but I mean he was announcing the ipad and then his retirement and now, he is gone!
I am pretty jaded to celebrity deaths but man, steve jobs dying really sucks. He was a visionary, an innovator, and astute business man that could zero in on an untapped/underused market like nobody else. He was fucking boss.
Liberty
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Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Wow, I didn't even know he had cancer. 57 is getting robbed, but he more than left his mark on the world.
RIP
RIP
brazenhussy
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Yep. It's not that his death was fast - he actually was able to buy himself what about 6 years more than most people would have? Though he went through hell for that I'm sure, for instance, I know he had a liver transplant. Anyway, when he stepped down I had a bad feeling, but even so, yes, it seems fast. It's so sad.
brazenhussy
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
Here's a really great write up of his life. He was a fascinating person.
Here's a really great write up of his life. He was a fascinating person.
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He had been battling cancer and liver disease for the better part of a decade. Yet he still remained one of the most brilliant innovators this country has ever seen. From personal computers, to the ipod, iphone, itunes etc...
Consistently he sold us on products we didn't know we needed until he showed us what his new toys could do.