but now that Jobs is replying to emails on a regular basis, he's probably going to get deluged by every crank out there (except maybe Murdock, hahaha). I'm assuming he's got someone who screens out that crap...

to remind one of 'how fragile life is' and what's really important.

BTW the BusinessInsider article says Jobs is 'typically apolitical', yet Apple did indeed stand up against the anti-gay-marriage Prop H8.

We should all appreciate Jobs while we have him around. He really is a modern-day Edison. Apple will live on and thrive without him, but there really is no replacing him.

My stake of AAPL will someday make me wealthy... I have my own personal plan on how to commemorate Steve for that, and when that day comes, I'll be sending him an email with a couple of photos regarding that. I hope he'll reply to me, too.

I think these are fake... why the sudden increase in email replies from Jobs?

take advantage of their wealth to stay alive? Life will never become that fair where money can't be used to an advantage. I'm certain that's why so many people try to attain wealth. Still there'll always be wealthy people that no matter how much money they can throw at the system, they won't survive if they have terminal cancer. Don't hate Steve Jobs for wanting to live. Hate the system that let him jump ahead of the line if that's truly the case. I've heard of viewpoints that say the person that can contribute more to society should be first given the chance to survive instead of a person that is a drain on society.

Even among equals of those awaiting organ transplants, if a patient turns quickly ill and an matching donor is found, they will move to the head of the list. Some may say that isn't quite fair, either. Sometimes it's just blind luck or because your blood type is more common than another's.

Steve Jobs can't spell "you're"! I HATE when people do that!

Steve didn't "jump ahead" of any line -- he was just able to get himself listed in many "lines," increasing his chance of finding a donor.

That's why he had it done in Tennessee -- he was on the wait list in California, Tennessee, and a number of other places. That doesn't mean he got to the head of any list because of money -- it just means his name was on more than one list... a luxury people without substantial wealth cannot do, for the most part, because it requires a lot of traveling (you can't get on a list in a state without being seen by a physician in that state).

Go Steve -- anyone and everyone with those resources would have done the same thing, and there's nothing wrong about it.

maybe the iPad's auto spellcheck tripped him up, my iPhone trips me up regularly by trying to insert the wrong word.

Now if he uses 'loose' instead of 'lose', I'm gonna be very disappointed.

To call Jobs a modern day Edison is an insult. [rant] Edison was a thief, liar, bully and was truly the Steve Ballmer of his day. [/rant]

Actually, you might be right. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've had the auto-correction replace "you're" with "your" on my iPhone before, until I made it stop doing that. It's just about the most unhelpful "correction" it could possibly make; really makes you look like an idiot.

Actually, I thought it was an insult because Edison actually invented stuff. Steve's more of an 'idea' man.