A new Steve Jobs book coming out later this month, written by Brent Schlender, will detail how Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs his liver.
There’s a new Steve Jobs book coming out later this month, written by Brent Schlender, a reporter who interviewed Jobs several times throughout his life. The book is called Becoming Steve Jobs, which will be released March 24th. Some eagle-eyed observers did spot a couple of interesting titbits of the book on an Amazon page that was quickly changed. One of the best parts is a story about Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, which took place when Steve Jobs first got sick with liver cancer.
When Jobs was ill and needed a new liver, Tim Cook offered to donate a portion of his own liver because the two shared a blood type. Jobs turned down Cook’s offer and later received a full liver transplant in 2009.
It was discovered that Cook had the same rare blood type as Jobs after a battery of tests. It turns out Cook offered Jobs his liver in order to save his life, but Jobs refused. “Somebody that’s selfish doesn’t reply like that,” Cook says.
Other interesting bits include the fact that Jobs wanted to buy Yahoo! for an undisclosed sum.
Walter Isaacson’s biography was largely responsible for igniting rumours about Apple creating a literal television, but according to Becoming Steve Jobs, Jobs was not particularly interested in television, telling Jony Ive at one point “I just don’t like television. Apple will never make a TV again.”
In Isaacson’s telling, Jobs wanted to “do for television sets what he had done for computers, music players, and phones,” creating an integrated television set that’s “completely easy to use.” At one point, he even reportedly said “It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”
Source: Cult of Mac
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