I'm surprised he didn't choose something less effective than a liver but that looks prettier.

In any case, as with almost anybody whose received a new organ, I wish him a speedy recovery.

That iLiver V2 works better than V1, I wish him a quick and successful recovery.

Now, about this alcohol metabolising app I bought on iTunes...

Just checked the app store, the only donor apps I can see are for recipes for kebabs.

Get well soon, Steve. If it weren't for him or his company, tech life would be worse off.

Apple fanbois would've donated their own liver?

Get well soon Steve.

the liver can fully heal itself as long as at least 25% of it is left... so a donor can happily donate 50% of their liver, then both donor and donee would still have plenty of redundant liver capacity to get by until such time as both parts have grown in to full livers in their respective hosts

if you can donate a liver without having to die first, this brings up the obvious question of why the waiting lists are so long - is it just that they aren't actually bothering to try and find donors? i know i've never been asked here... (only ever had the NHS ask me for blood... before presenting me with the list of things that disqualify you, which explained why they were so short on donors!)

... the business aspect is probably first to spring to mind?

Maybe a moment or two to dwell upon his personal issues, family issues, matters to do with friends and so forth is probably well spent.

And maybe another moment or two to dwell on people who might not attract quite so much press coverage for similar issues?

Then another moment or two just to let your thoughts run reflectively to wherever and whatever they take you to too?

What exactly is a 'fanbois' Mr A Coward?

Apple fanbois would've donated their own liver?

Answer: None

But they would have all happily donated Bill Gate's liver

...if this experience might make him think of making devices' internal bits a little more accessible in future.

Do you think the iPhone 4 could have a user swappable battery?

...for the guy who backed Pixar.

Without him, Apple products will simply stop working and the fanbois might realize how pointless the products are. What an offal, offal fate that would be.

As it is to ask whether the donors name was Lily...

I concur with the general tone. Steve is a talented guy who has made some brilliant decisions and created some really neat stuff.

If I had his money I would feel a responsibility and a desire to spend the rest of my time with my family - if he goes into work it just pure passion.

Stay as well as possible for as long as possible Steve.. You have been an inspiration for a long time..

TBH it seems the markets have finally been weaned off their Jobs obsession when it comes to Apple stock. The past six months have shown that the team Jobs built are quite capable of running the show without him, and the share price has risen to reflect that.

Jobs shouldn't rush back. It'll be good for the long term health of both himself and Apple if he stays away until his body is capable of meeting the demands work puts on it. In the meantime I wish him well with his recovery.

I wish you a speedy recovery, sorry to hear you are poorly.

Pancreatic cancer is a hard one to beat, I lost a well-liked colleague to it a few years ago. If Job's success with Apple gave him the money to successfully overcome that then no matter what one may think of his products I'd wish him and his family good luck.

Steve is a lucky fella - pancreatic cancer has an atrociously low survival rate (I lost a friend to it a few months back - not a pleasant way to go) and a liver transplant isn't exactly what you'd call a routine procedure either.

I'm not a fan of the man or many of his products, but hope he has a speedy and trouble-free recovery - God knows the world needs a few more people like him with creative drive and vision.

But I wish anyone facing ill health a speedy recovery.

Why are the waiting lists for organs shorter in Tennessee? Too many motorcylists who ride without helmets?? State law that made organ donation an opt-out rather than an opt-in?

Bill, Larry and Steve. No doubt there's more.

Large companies are supposed to plod along no matter who is at the helm. But if you can trust one person, that large company can also turn on a dime. The tradeoff for this agility is resilience, hence all the effort to set up Cooks and Ballmers.

Noting that body parts are available 6.375 times faster in TN than US average, does anybody know (a) whether there are a disproportionately large number of motorcyclists in TN and/or (b) that State's policy on the death penalty and its current Death Row throughput rate?

I like your point about the Volunteer State. Certainly, when I was vacationing there last year, I found everyone exceptionally friendly and pleased to help a lost tourist. So maybe they are a shining example.

So Steve has a new liver. That's all fine and dandy, but will it blend?

"DRM is present at the insistence of the record megacorps, not Apple. Indeed, S Jobs appealed for its riddance."

Ah yes, Jobs means everything he says doesn't he? Sorry but fuck off. Just because he said he hates DRM doesn't mean he continued to do so whilst his competitors had absolutely no problem running DRM free services. The fact everyone else managed to get DRM free deals showed up Jobs for what he is, a lier. The fact is Jobs loved their proprietary DRM, it tied the millions of iPhone users to Apple hardware. Even now iTunes has a ton of DRM laden tracks and the ones that aren't cost far more than DRM free versions at places like Amazon and Play.com. Don't be so damn gullable and assume everything he says it's true.

"His company has done more to innovate and style than any IT firm I know. Apple is synonymous with excellent design implementation."

Uh, yeah, okay you keep telling yourself that. Meanwhilst I'll chuckle at the fact the iPhone had fuck all features to start with such as GPS, MMS etc. and we were told it didn't need them but then Apple realised they did in fact need to copy everyone else in the industry and add these features. I'll also sit chuckling at all the easily scratched, regularly discolouring, non-replacable battery, fire hazard power adapter products that Apple keep churning out, so much for excellent design and implementation.

Apple is good at one thing - interface and looks, when it comes to actual quality, usefulness, cost effectiveness, features, Apple fails hard.

So, DRM wasn't at the insistence of the recording industry? Oh yes it was.

So his competitors "had absolutely no problem running DRM free services", oh yes they did ... they were routinely threatened by the big labels and had major problems getting catalogues. You seem to be the master of the grand overstatement ... "everyone else managed to get DRM free deals" - no they did not, and many have since gone to the wall.

By the way, it's gullIble, not gullAble.

And it's liAr, not liEr.

Another wacky statement ... "the iPhone had fuck all features to start with such as GPS, MMS etc. and we were told it didn't need them but then Apple realised they did in fact need to copy everyone else in the industry and add these features." Apple brought to market a mobile phone which awoke the market from its slumber ... hence the number of 'me too' models brought out by competitors. Of course it wasn't perfect (and certainly not up to your 'standards') ... what first models are? But you seem to want to live in the past so chuckle away.

"the liver can fully heal itself as long as at least 25% of it is left "

How do the cells in the remaining 25% know they are in the remaining 25% and decide to regrow the liver? Why not 22% or 5% ?