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Today Marks the Ninth Anniversary of Steve Jobs' Death

The simple fact many of us are currently reading this very article on a device that was originally envisioned by him (such as an iPhone or iPad) just shows what an impact he had in the tech industry and what a legacy he left. I still remember watching the iPhone 4 (my first iPhone) announcement and being wowed.
I know it is increasingly harder to make something revolutionary nowadays, but I haven’t been as amazed since Tim Cook took office. Apple still makes great products, sure, but it lacks the wow factor it had before, at least for me.
 
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TopToffee said:
That's true of pancreatic cancer in general, but wildly inaccurate for the specific type that he had
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The 5-year survival rate for all pancreatic cancers is about 10% now, but close to 40% (>90% for Jobs’s specific type) if it’s caught while it’s still localized. Unfortunately, it’s not caught early in most cases.

ETA the words in blue, per correction by @TopToffee (thx!).
 
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chucker23n1 said:
They've become formulaic in a way Steve's keynotes weren't. I hope they find a way to bring that back.
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Then let Craig Federighi Run the show, one of the few genuinely passionate ones.
PickUrPoison said:
The 5-year survival rate is about 10% now, but close to 40% if it’s caught while it’s still localized. Unfortunately, it’s not caught early in most cases.
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I read quite a few stories back then when he passed away that his type of pancreatic cancer could have been easily cured, now, I am not a specialist and those stories might not have been true or partially true.

mtrm said:
The simple fact many of us are currently reading this very article on a device that was originally envisioned by him (such as an iPhone or iPad) just shows what an impact he had in the tech industry and what a legacy he left. I still remember watching the iPhone 4 (my first iPhone) announcement and being wowed.
I know it is increasingly harder to make something revolutionary nowadays, but I haven’t been as amazed since Tim Cook took office. Apple still makes great products, sure, but it lacks the wow factor it had before, at least for me.
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Why do people come up with this, do people really believe he was the inventor of the complete iPhone.
Joni Ive had big influence, what about those 10s/100s of engineers, people should give them more credit.
Steve was very hard on people, and he saw the potential of creations, and then built on them.
 
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otternonsense said:
That, and then some. Even the labs guy showing the new iPad Air was giving one rehearsed, scripted bullet point after another. There's not an inkling of natural talk, genuine enthusiasm or element of surprise.
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I thought the iPad 8 intro was OK. It would've been even better if they hadn't shown that B-roll of some kid in a forest, but instead shown the guy actually using the features he was talking about live. (Instead, the B-roll showed the kid using it in a prerecorded manner, which was cute but also felt fake.)

The guy (Jay?) who showed Fitness+ also seemed enthusiastic. But, again, show, don't tell.

Almost everything else wasn't even enthusiastic. Jeff seemed bored by the new Watch, almost as though they had to cut an important feature at the last minute. The woman introducing Apple One was completely unnecessary. The Fitness+ dude should've seamlessly switched to that topic.

Generally, that just wasn't a good keynote, sorry.
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justperry said:
Then let Craig Federighi Run the show, one of the few genuinely passionate ones.
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The occasional "oh, hi Craig!" easter egg was among the high points in that keynote.
 
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chucker23n1 said:
I thought the iPad 8 intro was OK. It would've been even better if they hadn't shown that B-roll of some kid in a forest, but instead shown the guy actually using the features he was talking about live. (Instead, the B-roll showed the kid using it in a prerecorded manner, which was cute but also felt fake.)

The guy (Jay?) who showed Fitness+ also seemed enthusiastic. But, again, show, don't tell.

Almost everything else wasn't even enthusiastic. Jeff seemed bored by the new Watch, almost as though they had to cut an important feature at the last minute. The woman introducing Apple One was completely unnecessary. The Fitness+ dude should've seamlessly switched to that topic.

Generally, that just wasn't a good keynote, sorry.
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The occasional "oh, hi Craig!" easter egg was among the high points in that keynote.
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In the last one, hell yeah, that was funny.
 
World celebrates his life and his brilliance but he had a very difficult life which was eventually cut short...abandoned by his parents... then his colleagues and shareholders...I tend to think about what he had to overcome to become the icon....
 
SHirsch999 said:
He had pancreatic cancer. His chance of beating it was around 5%. Might as well try some alternative medicine....
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Wrong. He had a neuroendocrine form of pancreatic cancer which has a better prognosis and treatment options than the more common adenocarcinoma. If he had immediately commenced best practice medical management he would probably be still alive today.
 
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PickUrPoison said:
The 5-year survival rate is about 10% now, but close to 40% if it’s caught while it’s still localized. Unfortunately, it’s not caught early in most cases.
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Key Statistics for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor

Learn about the key stats for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) here.
www.cancer.net www.cancer.net

Think it's quite a bit higher than that for specifically neuroendocrine tumours (which is what Jobs had)
 
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SHirsch999 said:
He had pancreatic cancer. His chance of beating it was around 5%. Might as well try some alternative medicine....
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It’s all in the official biography which is pretty brutal and does little to prettify facts.

He had the very rare version which was treatable. He delayed the surgery because of his hippy beliefs, trying to scare it away with avocados. Later he finally agreed to a transplant but it was too late (it silently spread) so he wasted a perfectly good organ (and someone else had to die to donate it).

And to get it he leveraged the fact he had a private plane (you can only register as an organ recipient if you can get to the hospital fast enough, so thanks to the private jet he could register in more than one state).

So he not only killed himself, he made the death of his donor meaningless and took the organ from someone else.

I admire him for his impact in tech, and I’m sorry he died, but the facts are, the way he handled „life stuff” was pretty terrible.
 
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Was with my mother in the hospital who was getting gallstone surgery when I received a notification from my news app.
 
Royksöpp said:
Apple will always be amazing, but it will never again have that special "Je ne sais quoi" of the Steve Jobs era. You could feel the love he had for the products. His keynotes were passionate and personal. He was even brave enough to show his frustrations live on stage! It was a rarity to see someone so candid and genuinely unconcerned about what people thought of them. I feel lucky to have grown up with Apple by Steve Jobs. The younger generation will only know the Cook era, and that is not representative of what Apple truly was. A company that perfectly embodied the phrase "Think Different".
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The Cook era is focused on PROFIT! PROFIT! PROFIT! and the applianceification of their computers (Apple Silicon will render Macs unupgradable and unrepairable. Might as well glue them together at that point like the iPads)
The Jobs era was focused on good hardware and upgradability. (iMacs, MacBooks, Mac minis were all upgradable and repairable)
 
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Miss him dearly.
Sometimes I watch an old Steve-note and it bings a tear to my eye.

These are my favourite moments:
iCEO -> CEO
Intro G5
"It's TruE"

Cook is doing very well, of course, but I do miss the charm, the right-from-the-heart style Steve had.
IMHO, Cook is doing the best job in maximising what Apple can do with the legacy Steve gave us.
 
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TheSpiritBaby said:
The Cook era is focused on PROFIT! PROFIT! PROFIT! and the applianceification of their computers (Apple Silicon will render Macs unupgradable and unrepairable. Might as well glue them together at that point like the iPads)
The Jobs era was focused on good hardware and upgradability. (iMacs, MacBooks, Mac minis were all upgradable and repairable)
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The quote, which has been used by Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive and Tim Cook, is that Apple makes 'the best products', to suggest that Tim has veered from this is disingenuous. Steve was focused on profit, oh boy was he, but he was the marketing guru, not the coder, not the inventor, just the conductor of the orchestra. Sadly the world, this particular corner too, has become focused on finding faults not solution, critiquing keynotes in an era where they are virtual, and not accepting the difference. I say, if you can't do it yourself, quieten and lets those that can, do,
 
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