“During an interview conducted last weekend by the U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, Masayoshi Son, CEO of Softbank, talked about his relationship to Apple and Jobs,” Adario Strange reports for PC Magazine. “Son revealed an interesting series of events during the launch of the iPhone 4S.”
“Son said, ‘I visited Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S [at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California]. When I was having a meeting with Tim Cook, he said, ‘Oh Masa, sorry I have to quit our meeting.’ I said, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘My boss is calling me.’ That was the day of the announcement of the iPhone 4S. He said that Steve is calling me because he wants to talk about their next product. And the next day, he died,'” Strange reports.
“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,” Strange reports.
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Sad, and respect.
Very touching. Amazing dedication from Steve on his last day alive. I don’t think there’s another person alive who had/has such focus.
Yeah no kidding. That is some crazy love for what you are doing when you are on the phone about work while on your death bed.
Unique passionate soul, blessed us all with his dedicated craziness. A soul with that much determination and love flies into heaven ablaze with divine energy and will, renewed thousands of times over. I can imagine Steve is currently negotiating with God about bringing a new device to open heaven to earth communication, adding new features ever year to overcome the traditional veil.
He truly loved the company he helped found. A great man
1. Jobs was always working on products that are years before their actual release (like on iPad since early 2000s). So next iPhone is hardly the last product with Jobs’ vision in it.
2. iPhone 5 will hardly be called that since the fifth generation of phones already came — it is called iPhone 4S (after iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4).
Of course it’ll be called iPhone 5. How could it be otherwise, when there were two iterations of the iPhone 3. Using your logic, the current version should be iPhone 5s, as the iP3Gs would actually be the iP4.
There was no iPhone 3, there was iPhone 3G — totally different thing.
#1: iPhone
#2: iPhone 3G
#3: iPhone 3Gs
#4: iPhone 4
#5: iPhone 4S
#7: iPhone 4G (if the same outer design as iPhone 4/4S is kept)/ iPhone 6.
*#7 should be, of course, #6
Son-San clearly moved and effected by Steve’s ‘gambate!’ spirit.
Talk about facing down death to the bitter end..
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Possible. But equally likely Tim got a call that Steve’s death was imminent, that he should come over to say goodbye and that he just told Masayoshi Son that it was a conversation about the next product because he didn’t want to risk a leak about Steve Jobs dying.
That notwithstanding, it is also likely that Steve’s passion for making products help to keep him alive for a long time before this moment.
I think it’s likely this was Cook’s “cover story” for why he needed to take the call. While I don’t doubt it may have been Steve calling, I do doubt that Cook would have said, “It’s Steve calling and he’s about to pass away, so I need to take this call.”
Regardless, we’ve lost a visionary and he’ll be missed.
I’m amazed at the creativity of people who know absolutely nothing about a subject, or the personalities involved.
Sure, it seems unlikely that a man on his death bed would still be working on “The Next Great Thing.” But what about Steve Jobs wasn’t unique?
The guy never said Tim disclosed Steve was “about to pass away” that is your twist. He just said Steve called and he had to go.
My own father passed away from the same liver cancer thing. He could talk to us right up until 2 hours before he died. So don’t presume you know everything about dying. You don’t.
Tim probably just had to take a dump and said that just to sneak out.
The name “iPhone 5” is boring…we should call it iSteve…at least iPhoneSJ
On second thought, maybe Steve will still want to talk. He’s quite the powerful, committed guy. Time to call “Ghost Hunters” to do a show from 1 Infinite Loop. : )
Maybe he just wanted to say good bye, and good luck.
Steve always kept an eye on a Company he co-founded even after he was let go by the board. Upon his return Apple kept him alive after his medical problem….. his passion and energy he devoted and dedication …… He left a mark on rest of the world…..