Amaya Toman On September 9, 2009, Steve Jobs officially returned to Apple after a successful liver transplant. Given his cult of personality, it's probably not unusual that Jobs' public appearance on stage during that fall's Keynote was met with more than a minute of thunderous standing ovation. Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant in April 2009 at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Jobs also included a very personal topic of his own health in his speech on stage. As part of it, he expressed his immense gratitude to the donor, thanks to whom the transplant was able to take place successfully. "Without such generosity, I wouldn't be here," Jobs said. "I hope that we can all be so generous and choose the status of organ donors," he added. Initially, Cook offered to be a graft donor, but Steve Jobs rejected his offer very forcefully. Although everyone was certainly anxious for the introduction of the new product line of iPods, they listened carefully to Jobs. "I'm back at Apple, and I'm loving every day," Jobs did not spare expressions of enthusiasm and gratitude.
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At the time of the aforementioned Keynote, Steve Jobs' health was not a public issue. It was talked about, and the people closest to Jobs knew the truth about his serious illness, but no one discussed the topic out loud. Jobs's return in 2009 is still remembered today as the last wave of the Apple co-founder's legendary indomitable energy. During this era, products such as the first iPad, the new iMac, the iPod, the iTunes Music Store service and, of course, the iPhone were born. According to some sources, it was in this era that the first foundations of Apple's more careful approach to human health were laid. A few years later, the Healthkit platform saw the light of day, and iPhone owners in selected regions could register as organ donors as part of the Health ID on their smartphones.
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In January 2011, Steve Jobs publicly announced that he was once again taking a medical break. In a letter to employees, he said he wanted to focus on his health and, as he did in 2009, put Tim Cook in charge. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his departure from the position of CEO of Apple and definitively named Tim Cook as his successor.
