Breaking News: Steve Jobs is dead.

[Destiny]

Wow, he was in real bad shape then. He only officially stepped down weeks ago. Very sudden.

Not to be mean but I wonder if Apple's stock will drop tomorrow because of his death. Steve WAS Apple. Apple struggled until Steve came back and basically brought them back from the dead.

Stock analysts have been expecting this and the stocks have been already been price accordingly. Any shift in stock price will be due to funny people trading on fears and not on sound business sense.

So it is actually for real this time?

Sadly yes... I'm not an Apple Fan, but I viewed him as a business idol... I found out today at work when my intern started crying and saying Steve Jobs just died... then I saw the landing page on Apple.com then got teary eyed... :'(

 

[ew915]

I am sad too, the man is gone. The one who created the isheeps, fandroids and winmo freaks, without Steve Jobs we would still use nokias listening music on iriver players and playing games with the gameboy.

RIP Steve Jobs

 

[MagickMan]

RIP Steve, you were the sharpest mind in the industry and you'll be sorely missed.

 

[zsdersw]

Yes it's sad... but who's going to be the new pontiff? Do we have to wait to see a special smoke signal from Apple headquarters to know that they've decided on who to succeed him?

 

[Renob]

Though I've never owned an apple product, his visions and products have done much to push technology. R.I.P., Mr. Jobs.

what he said.... its a sad day....

 

[lothar]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A copy of Steve Jobs' death certificate made public Monday indicates that the Apple Inc. co-founder died of respiratory arrest resulting from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs.

Jobs died last Wednesday at age 56. Apple did not disclose his cause of death, but Jobs had been in poor health for a number of years.
He battled pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January -- his third since his health problems began -- and resigned in August, handing the CEO job over to his hand-picked successor, Tim Cook.

The death certificate, released by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department and obtained by The Associated Press, said Jobs had a metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor for the past five years. It listed his immediate cause of death as respiratory arrest.

He died at his home in Palo Alto. No autopsy was performed, and he was buried on Friday. Details of the certificate were reported earlier by Bloomberg News.

The certificate listed Jobs' occupation as a high-tech entrepreneur. Jobs started Apple Inc. in his parents' Silicon Valley garage with friend Steve Wozniak in 1976. Both men left Apple in 1985 -- Jobs following a clash with then-CEO John Sculley.

Jobs returned in 1997 as interim CEO after Apple, then in dire financial dire straits, bought Next, a computer company he started. That was the start of Apple's remarkable turnaround, which continues today with the popularity of products such as the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

Jobs died the day after Apple announced its latest iPhone, the 4S, which will go on sale Friday. Some fans and investors were initially disappointed that Apple didn't come out with a smartphone that is radically different from the existing iPhone 4. But Apple said first-day pre-orders of the device on Friday topped 1 million -- higher than the record set by the iPhone 4 when it was released last year.

Apple employees will hold a memorial service to celebrate Jobs' life on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. at the company's Cupertino, Calif., campus, according to an email sent out by Cook. An Apple spokesman said that the company will not be holding any public services.

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[zerocool84]

Hopefully this will bring more light on pancreatic cancer since such a high percentage die from it.