2004
Steve has a surgery to remove a tumor in July and takes a month off to recover. In a letter to Apple employees, he wrote from the hospital on a 17-inch Powerbook, "I have some personal news that I need to share with you, and I wanted you to hear it directly from me." "This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas."
Jobs receives permission to demolish the Jackling House and rebuild a smaller home on the land. Local preservationists vetoed the decision.

2005
Apple announces Intel inside of Macs, long culminating project "Star Trek", which was about running OS X on x86 Intel hardware. PCs and Macs are the same, essentially, component wise. Only software and design are their differences; Jobs’ awareness of design, emphasized early on in his days at Apple, and the importance of software over hardware learned at NeXT, would help guide Apple through the coming years.
Jef Raskin, father of the Mac, dies of pancreatic cancer in his home in Pacifica, CA.
Jobs turns 50
iPod Nano, Video iPod, iPod Shuffle Comes out
Jobs gives the commencement speech at Stanford, telling three stories, one about intuition and how he went to college and what he learned from it despite dropping out. One was about his love for Apple and losing the company. And the last was about death and his experience with cancer. The video and transcript are widely available online and the most personal look we have at his life during his second era at Apple.

2007
The iPhone is announced in January, then launched in June.
Apple TV comes out
Al Gore joins Apple’s Board

2008
Macbook Air comes out. Rumors abound about Steve looking too thin to be healthy.
Psystar announces a $400 mac clone, using Hackintosh work arounds to get OS X on a clone PC.
Jobs beings to give keynotes by sharing the stage with other Apple executives.
Gizmodo runs a rumor that Steve is sick and will step down in the Spring; the mainstream press denies it, particularly CNBC bureau chief Jim Goldman and some WSJ reporters, until January.
2009
Steve Jobs takes a health related leave of absence in January, until June. Tim Cook takes over day to day responsibilities while Jobs retains the CEO title.
Jobs receives permission to tear down Jackling house and build a smaller home on the property.
Steve Jobs receives a liver transplant in Tennessee. The NYTimes raises the question of how he received a transplant so quickly and the hospital releases a statement, with Jobs’ permission, that he received it quickly because he was the most sick on the list of recipients.
Steve Jobs returns to Apple in June 2009, quietly, by appearing on campus, and by being quoted in a press release.
The rest has yet to be lived, or written. We will be updating, in real time.

苹果到底代表什么意思？
夏娃咬了一口的那个？
砸中牛顿的那个？
或是毒死那个科学家的？
可能都有吧。
同为今天做个记号。

一言难尽。很优秀的一个家伙。而且挺认同他追求完美。

创造历史的人终究是很优秀的。
开拓进取领先也不可避免一些负面因素。
哈，先聚餐了。
很有兴趣再聊这个话题。