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Birth father of Steve Jobs has no comment
Steve Jobs never met his biological father, and even as the Apple co-founder's cancer progressed, he expressed no desire to talk with the man who gave him up for adoption as a baby.
When Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO in August because of his failing health, John Jandali, now 80, said he hoped his son would contact him.
In a rare interview, he told the British newspaper The Sun at that time: "I live in hope that before it is too late he will reach out to me. Even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man." The side-by-side photos of father and son, run by the newspaper, are eerie in their similarities, and show what Jobs might have looked like had he lived to his birth father's age. Read more...