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Apple creator Steve Jobs faces the fight of his life
Richard Clune
From: The Sunday Telegraph
August 28, 2011 6:00AM
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THE odds, it would seem, are stacked against Steve Jobs.
The famed Apple CEO - a man whose products are in almost every household and business in the western world and who has influenced modern popular culture like no other - is facing a sad end to his lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
At odds with the warm, sunny climes that draped the Silicon Valley hub of Palo Alto, California, yesterday morning, Jobs appeared skeletal, his skin flecked grey, relying on the hold of a close friend.
A new picture, taken while he made a short walk dressed in a light, lengthy black outfit, explains why the 56-year-old Jobs resigned as the boss of Apple on Wednesday.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," Jobs wrote in an open letter to the company's board and Apple customers. "Unfortunately, that day has come."
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While he did not detail his failing health, colleagues and Apple fans held grave fears for Jobs since January, when he took leave of absence.
One recent, arguably stoic appearance came in March to launch Apple's iPad 2. Much like the device he was spruiking, Jobs appeared both thinner and lighter.
As such, his decision to stand-down - to relinquish the reins of the computer monolith he co-founded from his parent's garage in 1976 - was not unexpected.
Ironically, the announcement followed news that Apple had surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company - valued at $341.5 billion.
It was in 2004 that Jobs - dubbed the "maestro of the micro" in a 1982 Time magazine cover story - announced he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor of his pancreas. An insidious disease, there is an average three-year survival rate for people with the condition.
In a 2005 speech at Stanford University Jobs recalled the day doctors told him "this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months."
He proved them wrong, although subsequent work appearances had him labelled "listless" and "gaunt".
In April 2009 he underwent a liver transplant eventually returning to work in September of that year.
"I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I'm eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream," he told reporters at the time.
A staunch vegetarian and devotee of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the fiercely private Jobs married Laurene Powell in a Zhen Buddhist ceremony in 1991.
The couple has three children. Jobs had another child, Lisa, from a previous relationship when he was 23.
For two years he denied paternity and in a signed court document claimed he couldn't have fathered Lisa as he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." Father and daughter later reconciled.
Jobs was 21 when he quit Atari and co-founded Apple alongside Steve "Woz" Wozniak. The pair's goal was to produce a computer that was both inexpensive and simple to operate. Initial success came with 1977's Apple II, while 1984's Macintosh saved the company from financial ruin and introduced the mouse and Windows to the world.
Amidst infighting Jobs quit the company in 1985 - he launched the NeXT Computer Company that same year - returning to Apple 12 years later. As CEO Jobs proved his savvy in again turning around the ailing Apple amidst a saturated and inexpensive PC market.
The first iPod was released in 2001, cementing Jobs' position as a technological wizard whilst taking Apple from a simple computer company to the world's dominant digital lifestyle brand.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/apple-creator-faces-the-toughest-test/story-e6frfro0-1226123754153
Apple creator Steve Jobs faces the fight of his life
Richard Clune
From: The Sunday Telegraph
August 28, 2011 6:00AM
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Apple Chairman Steve Jobs pictured with a friend in Palo Alto, California. Picture: Scope / PacificCoastNews.com
Jobs appears gravely ill, aided by friend
As it happened: Resignation and reactions
Ten products that defined Steve Jobs' career
THE odds, it would seem, are stacked against Steve Jobs.
The famed Apple CEO - a man whose products are in almost every household and business in the western world and who has influenced modern popular culture like no other - is facing a sad end to his lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
At odds with the warm, sunny climes that draped the Silicon Valley hub of Palo Alto, California, yesterday morning, Jobs appeared skeletal, his skin flecked grey, relying on the hold of a close friend.
A new picture, taken while he made a short walk dressed in a light, lengthy black outfit, explains why the 56-year-old Jobs resigned as the boss of Apple on Wednesday.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," Jobs wrote in an open letter to the company's board and Apple customers. "Unfortunately, that day has come."
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While he did not detail his failing health, colleagues and Apple fans held grave fears for Jobs since January, when he took leave of absence.
One recent, arguably stoic appearance came in March to launch Apple's iPad 2. Much like the device he was spruiking, Jobs appeared both thinner and lighter.
As such, his decision to stand-down - to relinquish the reins of the computer monolith he co-founded from his parent's garage in 1976 - was not unexpected.
Ironically, the announcement followed news that Apple had surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company - valued at $341.5 billion.
It was in 2004 that Jobs - dubbed the "maestro of the micro" in a 1982 Time magazine cover story - announced he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor of his pancreas. An insidious disease, there is an average three-year survival rate for people with the condition.
In a 2005 speech at Stanford University Jobs recalled the day doctors told him "this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months."
He proved them wrong, although subsequent work appearances had him labelled "listless" and "gaunt".
In April 2009 he underwent a liver transplant eventually returning to work in September of that year.
"I feel great. I probably need to gain about 30 pounds, but I feel really good. I'm eating like crazy. A lot of ice cream," he told reporters at the time.
A staunch vegetarian and devotee of Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the fiercely private Jobs married Laurene Powell in a Zhen Buddhist ceremony in 1991.
The couple has three children. Jobs had another child, Lisa, from a previous relationship when he was 23.
For two years he denied paternity and in a signed court document claimed he couldn't have fathered Lisa as he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child." Father and daughter later reconciled.
Jobs was 21 when he quit Atari and co-founded Apple alongside Steve "Woz" Wozniak. The pair's goal was to produce a computer that was both inexpensive and simple to operate. Initial success came with 1977's Apple II, while 1984's Macintosh saved the company from financial ruin and introduced the mouse and Windows to the world.
Amidst infighting Jobs quit the company in 1985 - he launched the NeXT Computer Company that same year - returning to Apple 12 years later. As CEO Jobs proved his savvy in again turning around the ailing Apple amidst a saturated and inexpensive PC market.
The first iPod was released in 2001, cementing Jobs' position as a technological wizard whilst taking Apple from a simple computer company to the world's dominant digital lifestyle brand.
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