“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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