revolution to be done a different way as we saw this year in tahrir square and in egypt. that this was a revolution enabled by the technology that some of these people, like bill gates and definitely steve jobs, thought up in their garages a generation ago. well, the difference between gates and bill gates and steve jobs, in my estimation, having kind of lived through the development of all these products, is that bill gates was for people who wanted to lift up the hood, for the gearheads, if you will, because he came out of that world of software. whereas what steve jobs did from the beginning with the mac with his macs, macintoshs and forward is to put it all in a case, to make it user friendly, to make it really neat, to make it look great, to make you a machine that would make you smile. when you walk into an apple store, which is also a steve
at this point in the afternoon late afternoon in california. joining me now is lance ulenoff, editor and chief of mashinable.com and former editor of pc magazine. thanks for joining me tonight, lance. thanks for having me on. you were a friend of steve jobs for a very long time. what is your reaction to where we are tonight with this news? well, i should say, you know, i m stunned. i worked with apple for year, you know, talking to them about products. i ve been in the same room with steve jobs during his many product announcements. i never had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with him though i wish i had. greatly admired what he did to our industry. i ve been in this industry for an awfully long time. and i have never seen a figure quite like steve jobs. first of all, a true phoenix. somebody who we rode off in the mid 80s, as somebody who had
ipad 2 and its icloud initiative, but then jobs announced his resignation saying he could no longer perform his duties as apple ceo. a creative titan of american business. he s survived by his wife, laurene, and four children. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn t treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that s the cold truth! and here s what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs
liver. good news that he got a liver transplant, but guarded news in that any time you get an organ transplant, you have to go on medicines that suppress your immune system and that always raised the question of whether it would hurt his immune system and allow the cancer to grow back. most people with his cancer, maybe two or three years, but the survival rate overall is well below 10%. i just have to say, based on the conversation listening to you guys the last few minutes, i think the country tonight is going to take a very deep sigh and pause and frankly shed a tear. this is just profoundly sad. on a societal level, on a sint scientific level and medical level. dr. nancy snyderman. thanks for joining me tonight. you bet, lawrence. we ll be back with more on the life and death of steve jobs. the genius behind apple who died
liver transplant. five months later, back at the job at apple, he expressed his gratitude. i now have a liver of a mid 20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. and i wouldn t be here without such generosity. reporter: on august 24th of this year he stepped down as apple s ceo. back in 2005, he offered this bit of advice to the stanford university grads. your time is limited so don t waste it living someone else s life. don t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. reporter: steve jobs, a man whose own inner voice led him to create some of the most visionary products of the internet era. jobs leaves behind a wife and four children. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. i m rejoined now by rob enderle, a technology industry