Apple boss tried to donate liver to its Steve Jobs, but he said no – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): In a new book coming in late March, “Becoming Steve Jobs,” says Brent Schlender authors and Rick Tetzeli including whether the close relationship between Steve Jobs and current Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Especially one episode in 2009 are highlighted. Here Cook have offered a very sick Jobs part of the liver’s that the latter should be better. This was after Cook found out that he had the same blood type as Jobs.

– He stopped me

Jobs, who had already struggled with a cancer diagnosis for years, however, was very clear that he would not let Cook lie on the operating table for his sake. The book tells the Cook about how his friend and colleague reacted when he came with the proposal.

– He stopped me about before I could say the words. “No, I’m never going to let you do,” he said.

Cook goes on to tell that Jobs just shouted to him four or five times during the 13 years they knew each other. This was one of those times.

Jobs accepted later in 2009 a transplant from another donor but opereasjonen despite – he passed away two years later in October 2011.

Surplus

Also after Cook took over the helm of teknologiganten, it has gone the way of Apple. In the last quarter of 2014 could show a surplus of 139.2 billion Norwegian kroner.

This enables the Company register the biggest quarterly profit ever among all world companies, writes CNN.

With 18 billion dollars in profits, crushes Apple the previous record held by the Russian oil giant Gazprom, which showed a surplus of 16 billion dollars (123 billion in current courses) in the first quarter of 2011.

74.5 million iPhone

Apple turnover of 577 billion last quarter, up from 447 billion the year before.

It was according to Reuters exceptional, and techno giant owes its new flagship phone, Iphone and Iphone 6 6 plus, large parts of earnings jumped.

Among other company received a gigantic increase in sales in China due to smartphone sales.

– We want to thank all our customers for an incredible quarter, where we saw the demand for Apple products rise to new heights. Effort we have put down to get to such results have been phenomenal, said Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.