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Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com) 117

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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Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death

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  • Not sure why remembering someone is relevant on their fifth death anniversary. Now if he were remembered in like 200 years, that would be something. Hey modmins, try using well fitting English words next time you write a headline. It won't happen though. You could even have borrowed it from the MacRumors summary!
  • by ArmoredDragon ( 3450605 ) on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:39PM (#53021479)

    It was his own fault.

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

    • by justthinkit ( 954982 ) <floyd@just-think-it.com> on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:57PM (#53021567) Homepage Journal
      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
      • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward

        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.

        • by dgatwood ( 11270 )

          Well, by that standard, it's also the fault of Apple's VP team for not making him undead. (Insert obligatory comment about sacrificing engineers here.)

          I'm suddenly imagining their VP team chanting, "Theena eesa betta" over and over.

      • by ArmoredDragon ( 3450605 ) on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @10:16PM (#53022193)

        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.

        • by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:24PM (#53022467)

          > 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.

      • "Correlation is not causation. "

        But the correlation between ignoring cancer as it riddles your body and an early death certainly is.

      • The kind of cancer he had was easily treatable by modern medicine. What happened was, Steve Jobs spent his entire life refusing to accept things and FORCED them to happen according to his will. Of course, this was all with human factors, things that he COULD affect. The cancer didn't give a shit about his famous reality distortion field, It spread and killed him and his alternative medicine didn't work for shit. Fun fact: what do you call alternative medicine that actually works? Medicine.
      • he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments

        Those three alternatives are almost certainly not equally likely, though.

      • Correlation is not causation.

        Saying that in justification for his use of alternate medicine is worthy of further study. I vote we repeatedly kick you in the balls with varying amount of force and get you to grade the resulting pain. Let's see if at the end of it you look at the graph and then say "correlation is not causation".

        I am wet while walking outside on a cloudy rainy day while it's raining. It must be due to the rain, but hey correlation is not causation.
        I got sun-burnt while at the beach on a really sunny day. But hey correlat

        • by Maritz ( 1829006 )
          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.
      • by DrXym ( 126579 )
        Statistically he would have had a far better prognosis if he had sought prompt proper medical treatment and followed the advice of doctors. Of course nobody could say for sure if he would have died anyway but he sure as hell didn't do himself any favours by choosing woo.
    • by ColaMan ( 37550 )

      Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition......

      Even if it goes against accepted medical science.

      "You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine." - Tim Minchin.

    • by Morpeth ( 577066 ) on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @08:45PM (#53021787)

      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.

      • I personally am a favour of alternate medicine and prayer to treat all illnesses. They are very good specifically when combined with Darwinism to treat stupidity within our gene pool.

      • by Maritz ( 1829006 )
        This is one of the first things you point to when people say "where's the harm" in alternative medicine. The harm is: it doesn't fucking work.
    • Yep Steve Jobs idiocy of following his heart and intuition instead of medical advise is why he is in a grave instead of on stage.
  • The same company that released products when they were done, not on some yearly schedule (this applies to hardware and software). The same company that actually cared about GUI design, so their stuff was obvious and easy to use and not filled with ultra thin fonts and neon vomit. The same company who cared about professionals, and generally had a usable high end workstation available... etc.

    The list goes on and on.

    I think Apple would do good to remember some of the things Jobs did to made them a great compa

    • Cook rests on Jobs' laurels.
    • Well we've had "IOS without Steve" longer than we had "IOS with Steve". Tried using an iPhone running IOS3 or 4 lately? It's fucking uuuuuuuugly.

      • by Anonymous Coward

        Tried using an iPhone running IOS3 or 4 lately? It's fucking uuuuuuuugly.

        So basically the same as IOS 10?

      • Cook improves (or adapt, as you wish), and Jobs created. Which of the two is the most fundamental?
  • by JoeyRox ( 2711699 ) on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:45PM (#53021509)
    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.
    • Sorry, but you were right the first time. Jobs brought some fashion sense into a world of beige-box PC's, and gave us the first smartphone that didn't suck, but really what else? Oh I guess the iPod and iTunes, but those are starting to die already.

      • 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?
        • It's offensive both to science and Einstein in general to equate his accomplishments with the business savvy of a guy like Steve Jobs.

          • relatively offensive.
          • Yet one of them dedicated their lives to work that will lead to the inevitable destruction of mankind. So you might reconsider what you ultimately find offensive.
            • by Maritz ( 1829006 )

              Yet one of them dedicated their lives to work that will lead to the inevitable destruction of mankind.

              Oh come on, Apple aren't that bad.

        • by Maritz ( 1829006 )
          You're equating Steve Jobs with Einstein. Holy shit.
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        • by guruevi ( 827432 )

          Not just the way it worked, to Jobs it was the whole experience. From buying it to disposing it, you felt good about your purchase. It was similarly priced, had all the latest features (Bluetooth, WiFi AND Data) AND a finished OS with free apps for mail and web browsing that weren't just scaled down Desktop versions.

          Compared to other "actual" smartphones (there were barely ANY), the iPhone was slightly cheaper and a hell of a lot better then either WiMo (not really all that hard, the thing showed a "Start"

    • by Anonymous Coward

      What did he/apple actually do, though? Turn computers from beige boxes into brightly coloured fashion accessories... that were sealed boxes you couldn't upgrade or repair? Build a phone that was marginally better but much "hipper" than the competition? I guess the ipod was nifty... just like the other small music players that came before it. Itunes? Meh, that was just the music industry catching up with napster.

      I guess I could almost pay the ipad in terms of novelty - I'm not aware of anyone previously

      • Seems more a triumph of style over substance than anything else.

        Spoken like a person with no style, and no recognition of substance.

  • He's dead, so are a lot of (better) people, move on...

    Also, his death is partly a result of his own arrogance and stupidity when it comes to ignoring science (ironic as hell really)

  • Happy Anniversary Steve!
  • Don't forget It!
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death

    That makes it sound like he'd completely forgotten him up until now.

    "October 5th... now why does that ring a bell?"

  • ... how Jobs was so critical about not making shit products. No it's not all shit, they have a lot of momentum so it can't be, but generally focus has shifted, fragmentation has occurred just like before, and trying to sell lots of shit to lots of people with the latest flashy shiny features is more important that reliability and thoughtful design. It's a gradual shift back to short term thinking profit driven design.
  • "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."

    So we are remembering the one year anniversary? The fourth aniversary of the one year anniversary ....... right? Also let us celebrate the third anniversary of the second anniversary, because by a happy chance that is today as well.

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  • Meh. (Score:5, Funny)

    by scubamage ( 727538 ) on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:00AM (#53024033)
    I don't get why people think Steve Jobs is so great. It's not like he found the cure for cancer or something.
    • by grub ( 11606 )
      He did give us one treatment that we can scratch off the list of potential cures..
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death

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