Sounds like he was a lot worse off than was let on when he announced his retirement a few weeks ago. He was an example that the heads of all major corporations should strive to be like, a true genius and visionary...he will be missed.
It's strange that I never paid much attention to Steve Jobs. I never had a Mac, ipod, ipad or iphone... However I'm not history free of him . I actually have to go back to nearly the beginning. Back to 1979-80 my 7th grade math class, my teacher had an Apple II computer in the classroom. I can picture that room and the computer like it was a few months ago even though it was 32 years ago.
Steve Jobs was a great inventor and visionary. He was the single biggest entity in the computer world. If you looked on one side you saw Dell, Hp, IBM, Toshiba, Microsoft, etc ... then you look on the other side you saw Macintosh. When you heard of Macintosh you couldn't help but to think of Steve Jobs as he was Macintosh. Outside of Bill gates and Michael Dell I can't think of any others that stick out.
I like a comment that was said.... most found out about his death on a device he helped to create.