Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple Inc., an American businessman, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor.
Steve Jobs Health problem
Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and announced to his employees in 2004. According to him at the time, he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, one he described as rare and less aggressive.
It is believed that Jobs did not take his condition seriously enough and that may have led to what some refer to as an unnecessarily early death.
Although many were concerned about Jobs health, a private conversation with The New York Times by Apple revealed that,
“While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than ‘a common bug’, they weren’t life-threatening, and he doesn’t have a recurrence of cancer.”
Jobs underwent a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee in April 2009 during which his prognosis was described as “excellent”.
Steve Jobs Resignation From Apple
On August 24, 2011, Jobs wrote to the Apple board informing them of his resignation as Apple’s CEO. In the resignation letter, he said,
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”
He became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook as CEO.
Steve Jobs Death Rumors
There were some rumors of Steve Job’s death in 2008. Apparently, Bloomberg mistakenly published an obituary of Jobs in August that year. It turns out that they had prepared his obituary with his date and cause of death left blank waiting to be published on the day of his death. The document was mistakenly published before Jobs’ death. Although the mistake was quickly ratified, some online news portals reported on it. This caused somewhat widespread rumors of his death.
In September 2008 during Apple’s Let’s Rock keynote, Jobs responded saying,
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Steve Jobs Honors and awards
- Statue of Jobs at Graphisoft Park, Budapest
- National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak), in 1985. Awarded by US President Ronald Reagan
- Jefferson Award for Public Service (1987)
- Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine (1989)
- Howard Vollum Award from Reed College (1991)
- Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine (2007)
- Inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts (2007)
- Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance (2012)
Posthumous Honors
- An Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career. (2012)
- Inducted as a Disney Legend (2013)
- Steve Jobs Theater opens at Apple Park (2017)