Unfortunately, this confirms that the photos have not been modified.
However, I'm still hoping that TMZ pulled a publicity stunt with this and that's just a Steve Jobs double.
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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
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Unfortunately, this confirms that the photos have not been modified.
However, I'm still hoping that TMZ pulled a publicity stunt with this and that's just a Steve Jobs double.
Pancreatic cancer and liver transplantation is about as serious as it gets. Every time I see the words 'likely pancreatic malignancy' on a scan report for one of my patients my heart sinks. But good luck to Steve hope he comes back to full health!!!
I still remember the day my dad bought home the original 'Bondie blue' iMac, i than spent the next day trying to figure out how to transfer files without a floppy disc Apple simply wouldn't be the same without Steve
For those people moaning about the lack of blue-ray etc...do you guys still remember when Apple shares were worth $3 just before Steve came back to Apple. The man is a genius with more vision and focus than most, if you think you have a better idea about how to build computers, quit your moaning go and start your own company like Steve did.
I still remember the day my dad bought home the original 'Bondie blue' iMac, i than spent the next day trying to figure out how to transfer files without a floppy disc
Apple simply wouldn't be the same without Steve For those people moaning about the lack of blue-ray etc...do you guys still remember when Apple shares were worth $3 just before Steve came back to Apple. The man is a genius with more vision and focus than most, if you think you have a better idea about how to build computers, quit your moaning go and start your own company like Steve did.
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Are you alright?? Thats how I was greeted on Thursday morning at the start of meeting and I guess many others for whom Apple = Steve would have faced the same question..
All I can say is I am not fine, but we have to move on.. there is a greattt team at Apple and we should show our support to them.
Thanks Steve for making our life magical!!! Hope you take good care of yourself and have a happy & peaceful life...
All the Best to the Apple Team!!!
All I can say is I am not fine, but we have to move on.. there is a greattt team at Apple and we should show our support to them.
Thanks Steve for making our life magical!!! Hope you take good care of yourself and have a happy & peaceful life...
All the Best to the Apple Team!!!
He started with nothing in his hands, and he created companies that eventually changed the world, not only Apple.
At least he lived long enough to see his baby grow bigger than M$, and to see his company be at the top. In a way, he fulfilled all his dreams.
Even if he is at his last days (which I hope not), few people have that fulfillment that Steve has, to know that they have accomplished all their dreams and that they have gone as high as a man with nothing in his hands and dreams in his mind can go.
Oh, and... I believe he made the right choice. We, as customers, always want more, and better, bigger, nicer, slicker products. Hence, the comments about "No...", "how unfortunate", "I hope he returns", etc.
As much as I love Apple, I hope he never returns. He is a visionary and he has worked as hard any other man I know in his life. I believe that wether he turns out to be OK or not, he deserves to be left alone with his family and close friends, as a vacation that will last till the end of his life, whenever that may be.
At least he lived long enough to see his baby grow bigger than M$, and to see his company be at the top. In a way, he fulfilled all his dreams.
Even if he is at his last days (which I hope not), few people have that fulfillment that Steve has, to know that they have accomplished all their dreams and that they have gone as high as a man with nothing in his hands and dreams in his mind can go.
Oh, and... I believe he made the right choice. We, as customers, always want more, and better, bigger, nicer, slicker products. Hence, the comments about "No...", "how unfortunate", "I hope he returns", etc.
As much as I love Apple, I hope he never returns. He is a visionary and he has worked as hard any other man I know in his life. I believe that wether he turns out to be OK or not, he deserves to be left alone with his family and close friends, as a vacation that will last till the end of his life, whenever that may be.
Problem here is the great OS, not the hardware.
And even Steve knew he couldn't build a whole new one.
That's why he took bsd & next.
A new startup can't have any secrets of bd's "secure path".
But, okay, if I start a company today and if it goes as good as Apple, I can make & watch movies with my own OS by the time 2020?
Maybe there's faster and easier way...
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I am sure someone here already said something like this, but:
No!
No!
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If that TMZ pic is the real deal and not photoshopped then really think he is on his last legs, weeks not years. I don't trust TMZ but Steve looked in a bad way in that pic, couldn't even stand on his feet without support.
No point deluding ourselves, I am not a doctor but the end is near
No point deluding ourselves, I am not a doctor but the end is near
I'm not one to gossip/make assumptions, but my god that picture is so sad/sickening, the picture itself tells you the truth. He hasn't got long left it seems
It's gonna be a sad, sad day in the technology industry, He is a man that has helped develop the technological world as well know it .i will just find it sad he was/will never be able to settle down and retire into a peaceful life
Sad, on more then one level
I was looking at the TMZ photo's and having worked at a Veteran's hospital for 25 years I have seen this far too many times. With Steve's resources you can have no doubt that everything possible has been done and will be done. But there is a point when the body can no longer take what is being done to it to control the cancer. We have seen the last of Steve Job's product presentations at Apple. I will always remember the day Steve held up the First iPod. At the time little did anyone know the affect on the world that one small device would have. To bring to the world one transformational device is one thing, but Steve added to this with the iPad which has nuc'ed the computer world, Bye Bye HP. Via Con Dios Steve, and thank you.
RossMc et al, you people are starting to sound like the fans of Elvis Presley. I am not saying TMZ is the most credible source of News, and we have not seen the National Inquirer's Steve Job's "Sad Last Days" article but we all have to face the facts.
I was looking at the TMZ photo's and having worked at a Veteran's hospital for 25 years I have seen this far too many times. With Steve's resources you can have no doubt that everything possible has been done and will be done. But there is a point when the body can no longer take what is being done to it to control the cancer. We have seen the last of Steve Job's product presentations at Apple.
I will always remember the day Steve held up the First iPod. At the time little did anyone know the affect on the world that one small device would have. To bring to the world one transformational device is one thing, but Steve added to this with the iPad which has nuc'ed the computer world, Bye Bye HP. Via Con Dios Steve, and thank you.RossMc et al, you people are starting to sound like the fans of Elvis Presley. I am not saying TMZ is the most credible source of News, and we have not seen the National Inquirer's Steve Job's "Sad Last Days" article but we all have to face the facts.
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This says the picture is fake.
That photo doesn't prove anything.. its just pointing at a lot of stuff saying "look here! now here!" but doesn't show what it would look like in a normal picture.
and I lol'd at it saying tmz is not reliable because its a tabloid site unlike a news site (like they are any more reliable these days?)
Unfortunately, this confirms that the photos have not been modified.
However, I'm still hoping that TMZ pulled a publicity stunt with this and that's just a Steve Jobs double.
I too was looking at the TMZ website and saw the picture.. How do we even know when this was taken.. This could have been when he had his first treatment or surgury.
I highly doubt steve would gave shown up to the office like this.. This says this picture was taken two days after he resigned.. In this picture it looks like it has been more than 5 days since he had a shave and cleaned himself up.. So I HIGHLY doubt he went to the office looking like THIS
James
About the unreliability of TMZ, it was the "unreliable" site and tabloid The National Enquirer who published photos of Jobs leaving the Stanford Cancer Center. Which despite people arguing that it wasn't him turned out to be genuine.
This may be the last public photo of him.
The Enquirer also said he had 6 weeks to live, longer than that after he was up on stage launching the iPad 2
But this time I do fear the worst tbh, I really do not see him seeing in 2012.
TMZ broke Jacko's death before any other news source so they know their stuff
The Final consultation
What I believe has happened is Steve Job's Oncologists have given him the news that there is nothing more that can be done for him, and he has transitioned into home based hospice care.
What I believe has happened is Steve Job's Oncologists have given him the news that there is nothing more that can be done for him, and he has transitioned into home based hospice care.
I don`t argue, that Steve is not sick or something, but it`s really poor from TMC, to show these fake photos. Check his dress I mean the bottom part, it`s cropped, fabric is never so straight, the guy by his left side has his clothes uncropped so you can compare, you see how unrelistic it looks.
They just used Mr. Jobs photo when he`s was leaving hospital or so, and photoshoped it, then stated, look this is 2 days old photo...
Same thing, like when the other guys from The National Enquirer predicted even by the words of some wannabe-expert, that he is unable to survive more than 6 weeks.
I wish Mr. Jobs all the best, and I`m sick looking at such attempts to make things worse and trying to make a profit from it.
They just used Mr. Jobs photo when he`s was leaving hospital or so, and photoshoped it, then stated, look this is 2 days old photo...
Same thing, like when the other guys from The National Enquirer predicted even by the words of some wannabe-expert, that he is unable to survive more than 6 weeks.
I wish Mr. Jobs all the best, and I`m sick looking at such attempts to make things worse and trying to make a profit from it.
Predictions about when someone is going to die is an entirely different thing than if the published photos are genuine or not.
Unfortunately, this confirms that the photos have not been modified.
However, I'm still hoping that TMZ pulled a publicity stunt with this and that's just a Steve Jobs double.
No, I do not think it confirms anything.
From that site:
Does anyone who doubts that the photo is genuine think that Jobs would be the person to resign unless he really, really, had to?
And if he isn't why didn't he resign back when he had his second medical leave of absence? If he, as he wrote in his resignation, no longer is able to fulfill his duties, then what kind of shape do you think he's in? Before this he took medical leaves of absence, and he still was on his second when he now decided to resign.
While I may hope for his sake that the photo is shopped, what I believe based on the information we have been given, is quite different.
Jobs wasn't going to resign unless he had no more options in his battle against his cancer and he was unable to fulfill his duties. And when that happens there's a big chance that you look like that photo.
And if he isn't why didn't he resign back when he had his second medical leave of absence? If he, as he wrote in his resignation, no longer is able to fulfill his duties, then what kind of shape do you think he's in? Before this he took medical leaves of absence, and he still was on his second when he now decided to resign.
While I may hope for his sake that the photo is shopped, what I believe based on the information we have been given, is quite different.
Jobs wasn't going to resign unless he had no more options in his battle against his cancer and he was unable to fulfill his duties. And when that happens there's a big chance that you look like that photo.
Gosh you people sound like the those who think crop circles are made by space aliens, or weird magnetic forces from the dimension "X" even though the people who actually have always made them have come forward and demonstrated how it is done. It has been known for over 6 years Steve has serious health issues. I know a great deal about the problems Steve is reported to have from a statistical point of view, this is what I do. It is a tribute to medical technology developed in the United States that Steve has been able to continue on, shake the world, and make a lot of people rich, for as long as he has.
My fantasy and what comes to mind in this case it the anima series "Ghost In A Shell". In the world of this series Steve Job's would be cyberized. His brain, and ghost (his consciousness) would be transferred to a cybernetic body which would be identical to his real one. Who knows maybe a future Apple will be at the fore front of this technology which I have absolutely no doubt will be one day be possible.
My fantasy and what comes to mind in this case it the anima series "Ghost In A Shell". In the world of this series Steve Job's would be cyberized. His brain, and ghost (his consciousness) would be transferred to a cybernetic body which would be identical to his real one. Who knows maybe a future Apple will be at the fore front of this technology which I have absolutely no doubt will be one day be possible.
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I think the truth lies somewhere in between
I have no doubt the pic is real and recent equally TMZ very possibly touched it up a bit to make it even more dramatic than it is but I fully believe we are reaching the final chapter of Steve's life, he returned to work after 6 months out with a liver transplant so whatever this is is a lot more serious than a liver transplant which can only mean 1 thing tbh, terminal cancer, the early release of the book too set off alarm bells with me even before his resignation
I hope he is well enough to do the keynote for the iPhone5 but I do not believe for one second he is ok and that this is just TMZ photoshopping an old pic and pretending it is new.
Everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that the end is likely near, regardless of if the photo is faked/touched-up/real. Steve was very clear in his resignation letter that he wasn't stepping down simply because he thought it was as good idea to accelerate Tim Cook to CEO before they lost him or that he was doing it to spend more time with his family.
He said "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apples CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
We can only wish him the best and that he truly does have more time left than we all think might be the case.
He said "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apples CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
We can only wish him the best and that he truly does have more time left than we all think might be the case.