Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used the last interview before his death to explain to his children why 'I wasn't always there for them,' it has been revealed. Stricken with terminal cancer and too ill to climb stairs the 56-year-old, whose death was announced yesterday, wanted to ensure that his biography was ultimately a love letter to his family. 'I wanted my kids to know me,' he told Pulitzer Prize nominee and author Walter Isaacson, when asked why he agreed to a tell-all book despite living a famously private life.