Apple, Tim Cook offered his liver to Steve Jobs, but he refused and … – The Messenger

Between Tim Cook and Steve Jobs ran a relationship of love and hate. After the death of the founder of Apple dramatic was revealed a particularly delicate of his illness. Tim Cook wanted to donate part of his liver to Steve Jobs, to make it survive, but the co-founder of Apple refused. And ‘written by two US reporters, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, and is based on interviews with the people closest to Jobs from his wife, Laurene Powell.

 After that Jobs was diagnosed with the disease in 2009 was in need of a transplant. Tim Cook discovered that he had in common with him not only a rare blood but that was also compatible for the donation, wanted to donate a portion of liver.

Being an organ that regenerates itself, with the transplant could so hope for a cure of cancer. After undergoing all clinical tests and be sure of the compatibility and not to take any chances, Tim Cook suggested surgery but Steve Jobs refused and also crashed. “He jumped on the bed and said, ‘No! I will not let ever to do so,” says Cook in the book and adds “Steve yelled at me in 13 years of knowledge only four or five times and this was one of those.”

In the book due out March 24 and is the second major study on life after Jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson, also known as Apple TV and the fact that Steve Jobs wanted to buy Yahoo !. In addition to Tim Cook and Laurene Powell, the two authors have also interviewed the designer of Apple, Jon Ivy.Uno journalists who worked on the book, Rick Tetzeli, works at Fast Company magazine which published excerpts of the book.