Steve Jobs Could Have Lived Longer, Had He Enough Product-Launch Drive - Speculation

Softbank CEO and Apple partner Masayoshi Son has revealed in an interview that Steve Jobs worked on his company’s products and announcements until his last day. Son believes the iPhone 4S launch let Jobs live longer.

Son recalled visiting Apple for the announcement of the iPhone 4S at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.

“When I was having a meeting with Tim Cook, he said, 'Oh Masa, sorry I have to quit our meeting.' I said, 'Where are you going?' He said, 'My boss is calling me.'” Son said that Jobs was calling Cook because he wanted to talk “about their next product. And the next day, he died," he said.

Impressed by the Apple co-founder’s driven nature, Son went on to speculate that it was this last product announcement that allowed Jobs to live this long: “Physically he could have died much earlier. But his passion, his love for his own company and dream, about the next products, that made him energized," he said.