“The ‘end of June’ is how long Steve Jobs said his medical leave would run when he announced in January that he was temporarily stepping down as Apple’s CEO,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

“But David Zeiler, writing on another subject for the Baltimore Sun website, offers a scenario in which Jobs could return to the helm a few weeks earlier — on June 8 to be precise,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.

“Steve Jobs, only a few weeks away from the end of his medical time-out, is not likely to leave the honor of introducing the 6th major update of Mac OS X — and any other big announcements Apple might have in store — to Tim Cook or Phil Schiller,” Elmer-DeWitt writes. “So if he’s made any kind of recovery at all, I expect to see Jobs that Monday, looking rested and relatively healthy, on Moscone West’s main auditorium stage at 9 a.m. sharp Pacific Daylight Time.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Nick" for the heads up.]