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Confirmed: Steve Jobs Worked on Apple Until His Last Day
- ljmorsillo 15y agoI appreciate passion, but I was more heartened by the reports that during the last few years he devoted himself more to family.
- technoslut 15y agoFrom everything I've seen of Jobs' private life, it was all about his family. Up until the end he spent his time on the two things he loved the most: his family and Apple. We should all be so lucky to find a job that we love doing 'til our last breath.
- Splines 15y agoIndeed. I've heard the adage "when you're on your death bed, are you going to wish that you spent more time in the office?" and I tend to agree with it. It's not easy to find a job (or purpose) so great that we wish to stay on this earth a little bit longer because of it.
- meric 15y ago"Son didn't elaborate on which product Jobs discussed with Cook, but given this new information, the speculation that next year's iPhone 5 will be Jobs' final master stroke of product innovation now seems far more credible. " :(
- vijaydev 15y agoThe word 'Confirmed' in the title makes me cringe.
- sabat 15y agoShould really be 'Report:'.
- swombat 15y agoSon didn't elaborate on which product Jobs discussed with Cook, but given this new information, the speculation that next year's iPhone 5 will be Jobs' final master stroke of product innovation now seems far more credible. You can check out the video here. Hardly. The incredible company that Jobs built can handle the iPhones 5, 6 and 7 just fine. The iPhone 5 is probably already being tested on the Cupertino campus, and doesn't need any of the last 24 hours of Steve Jobs' attention. The "next product" is more likely to be a new product category, like the iPad, iPhone and iPod were when first announced. Based on current rumours, that could be the "iTV" or something altogether different... What Steve Jobs was almost certainly not fretting about on the day before he died was the iPhone 5. As a unique visionary, I'm sure Steve Jobs was very well aware that Apple's future for the next few years is assured, but what isn't is its future in 10, 20 years. My guess is that phone call was about a product that we'll first hear about in a decade.
- sabat 15y agoThe incredible company that Jobs built can handle the iPhones 5, 6 and 7 just fine. The iPhone 5 is probably already being tested on the Cupertino campus, and doesn't need any of the last 24 hours of Steve Jobs' attention. You underestimate Steve Jobs. He was involved in all sorts of product and marketing detail, and certainly wouldn't have wanted to fixate on his own death when there was work to do.
- 0x12 15y agoDid you know Steve Jobs personally?
- swombat 15y agoI'm not suggesting he fixated on his own death - in fact, the article states exactly the opposite. What I'm saying is, there were more important Apple things for him to think about than the iPhone 5, and given that one of Steve Jobs' defining characteristics was, as far as I know, his ability to focus on the right thing, I doubt he was worrying himself about the iPhone 5.
- meric 15y ago
- mdwe 15y agoIsn't it far more likely that the meeting was about jobs' health, and the least suspicious story to tell a business partner to avoid speculation would be to say it is a meeting about the next iPhone?
- snorkel 15y agoSounds like someone wants to put "Blessed by Steve Jobs" stickers on upcoming products.
- 0x12 15y agoWhoever wrote this doesn't like Apple much. After all it paints a picture that Apple could not run itself without Steve even for a single day right up to the day he died.
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- easy_rider 15y agowow...seriously wow... Just stop posting these articles
- Mordor 15y agoCall me cynical, but they can't keep claiming Jobs designed all their future products forever.