Today Marks Steve Jobs' 66th Birthday as MacRumors Turns 21

[Freeangel1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE!
I always miss chatting with you by email.
Thanks for responding every time!
sjobs@apple.com

 

[Captain Trips]

I have this, and a magnet with the same wording on the back of my car. I think I bought them form either RedBubble or Cafe Press.

 

[I7guy]

How cute that the person who's culture made Apple what it is is being marked by a man who's nearly single-handedly demolished all that the first man did.

This is more to reality.

How great is it that the person who’s culture made apple is being marked by the hand-picked ceo who single-handedly has taken Apple to new heights

Fixed it for you. I guess if “bringing down the house” is attributed to one person, raising up the house can also be done by one person.

 

[EdT]

Who wants to buy MacRumors its first drink? 😆

You mean “Who wants to buy MacRumors A drink “? I doubt it will be their first.....

 

[jonnysods]

I KNOW, eh? I was thinking that when I read this. 66 is pretty young these days, and to think of how long he's been gone already. Really crazy. Really unfortunate.

I wonder if he would be around if he decided to tackle the illness earlier. Hindsight doesnt really help now.

 

[AppleInLVX]

I wonder if he would be around if he decided to tackle the illness earlier. Hindsight doesnt really help now.

We’ll never know. Cancer sucks.

 

[EdT]

I wonder if he would be around if he decided to tackle the illness earlier. Hindsight doesnt really help now.

I think we do know. Steve Jobs had something pretty rare: A highly treatable type of Pancreatic cancer. Most Pancreatic cancers are not easy to treat and the success rate and life expectancy is low. But Steve Jobs decided to do 'alternative treatments' like acupuncture and dietary supplements and juice instead of surgery and treatments, and in the end he regretted trying to treat cancer that way.

Thats not my opinion, thats what Steve Jobs himself told the man he asked to be his official biographer, Walter Isaacson. Forbes article 2011

 

[UK-MacAddict]

No, it's actually not "very easy". The 5-year survival rate for pancreatic NET is about 54% on average. Not bad but hardly a guaranteed cure. Steve actually ended up making it 8 years. It's not clear that a 9 month delay in treatment at the very beginning, out of 8 years, would have made the difference between life and death. It might have, but we'll never know; and it certainly doesn't warrant 99% confidence.

I think it said in his biography it was very early stage pancreatic cancer when they caught it, like a small shadow on a scan. Doctors wanted to operate immediately. But he delayed treatment for like over half a year trying herbal remedies and stuff and allowed it to grow to a point where it had spread. He states he regretted waiting and part of it was due to fear, understandably. I think he would have survived longer if he’d had the surgery immediately.

Steve made it 8 years because he had the best medical care. I remember reading that doctors mapped his entire DNA/gene structure or something like that so they could target specific drugs to specific parts of the body when cancer cells came back.

 

[jonnysods]

I think we do know. Steve Jobs had something pretty rare: A highly treatable type of Pancreatic cancer. Most Pancreatic cancers are not easy to treat and the success rate and life expectancy is low. But Steve Jobs decided to do 'alternative treatments' like acupuncture and dietary supplements and juice instead of surgery and treatments, and in the end he regretted trying to treat cancer that way.

Thats not my opinion, thats what Steve Jobs himself told the man he asked to be his official biographer, Walter Isaacson. Forbes article 2011

Thanks for this. I hadn’t read the book, but had heard a rumour that he had some regrets - Steve was a pretty bold/proud guy, it’s a shame he didn’t take a different course of action.

Reminds me of the line is Endgame “no amount of money ever bought a second of time” - great saying