“On August 24, 2011 Apple cofounder Steve Jobs announced his resignation as Apple CEO, six weeks before his death,” William Gallagher writes for AppleInsider. “Jobs’ resignation followed a leave of absence from the company starting in January, during which [Chief Operating Officer Tim] Cook had served as acting CEO. His stepping down was an unmistakable end of an era for the company, and a very different departure from the first time Jobs left Apple, in 1985. ”
“Jobs was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the fall of 2003. In an extreme example of Jobs’ stubborn nature, he first fought his disease with alternative medicine, as well as a special diet,” Gallagher writes. “For a period of couple of years, Jobs appeared to recover well. Attention on his health lessened, but never quite faded completely. ”
“Steve Jobs accomplished a lot while fighting cancer, likely in immense physical pain a great deal of time,” Gallagher writes. “And, he set up Apple for success.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Tim Cook marks seven years as Apple CEO today, having been named CEO on August 24, 2011.
Mr. Jobs made the world a better place while bravely fighting an insidious disease during the last several years of his life under much public scrutiny. While we hope he did all of this free of pain, we suspect otherwise. Add “courageous” to the long list of superlatives describing this singular genius. — MacDailyNews, October 5, 2011
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Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dead at 56 – October 5, 2011
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Do you see the train wreck coming yet?
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Anonymous coward.
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I’m not a Trump supporter in any way but your posts have nothing at all to do with this site’s purpose or this article. Go troll cnn.com.
Where were you when all the pro-Trump proselytizers rampantly hijacked this website over the past 2 years? Did not hear you complain then. So: go troll yourself, dude.
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GoeB,
Classic Trump fan etort: “but, but, but” and “what about x,y,z”. Get real, you say? I think objective observers on this website would agree that the offensive hijacking and invective came mostly from the Trump side. And, in fact, a small handful of antagonists. Also known as trolls.
Not blind, just a loyal Trump supporter.
Certainly he is being setup. We shall see …
Yeah, all I see is the wave of socialists that are going to make this country into a weak third world shit hole.
Did you read the wrong article? The one I read was about Jobs and Cook.
Ha ha ha. Totally. I am here to burn the diversionary, inane, political bait-and-switch comments I used to read here all too frequently. I do not drop by much anymore. But I could not resist the chance to burn some of the many political hijackers that frequent this site in the light of recent news: Manafort, Cohen, Pecker, and today Weisselberg. The train wreck is coming. And hint: it is not about Hillary.
Have a nice day!
The road to Steve Job’s resignation? They call that a terminal cancer diagnosis. There is nothing else to it. If Steve was fit as a fiddle we would all be saying “Tim who?”