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I can't tell from that picture. Does Steve have a tan or is he jaundiced? This is dumb.

"It was Roz Ho on acid."

Classic! And spot on, too.

As one who has had a relative go through cancer and not survive, Steve looks like he is following the same slow downward spiral. It is a sad thing.

Here's the full interview:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGBqKaN6Y-Y

He did look a little too thin. Let's hope that it is on purpose and not because he is sick. I think that the presentation format did not demand 100% of SJ. It was just a very long demo and it was nice to see other people. Nothing wrong with a little bit o change to keep things fresh.

The french guy however was plain awful. I know he is brilliant and all but too thick of an accent to having him in such a spotlight. Maybe for less formal and smaller tech discussions he would be a good guy to have.

"Boy, sometimes I wish he'd just let loose and have a nice steak once and awhile"

Yeah, that way he can balloon up to 25 stone like the rest of the lard-arse steak-chompers.

As an investor. it is a true reason to be concerned, Steve retires and so does the stock performance.

He who burns twice as bright burns twice as fast

-Blade Runner

On there combined performances I thought Steve did a great job again, personally i think theyre holding ALOT back from the actual release build of what Leopard will actually be, and what they showed, theres not really a whole lot to be really excited about, is there? I mean you want the guy at 51 to be jumping around the stage about a thing called time machine??!! he was most focused when talking about market share, that was the biggest thing to come of the event in my opinion.

they wont want to give MS any ideas on how to improve vista, think about what they showed, they showed core technologies, they showed core animation, time machine, things that are built in, and require alot of work to copy, 64 bit...you didnt really get any stuff you could get your teeth into.

he seemed rather composed and i thought quite at ease with himself throughout.

Phil Schiller on the other hand, no offence but hes not up to the mark, he looks like he works at apple for the paychecks, and Im sorry to be that high up at Apple you have to want to change the world through new technology, i dont see that vision and desire coming from schiller, i never have, the guy looks like he hangs out at drag racing meets and drinks bud by the 100.
Thats fine but is that the kinda guy you want at an important position in Apple? the guy didnt know his lines, he didnt looked fired up, i mean half of us would have more passion about apple than that guy.

Scott Forstall did a good job though and i thought he looked genuinley inspired by the products he was demoing.

Youll see steve really excited when he talks about numbers and marketshare, and BIG developments.

Apple still need to be relentless with advertising. They also need to release the absolute, hands down, best ever, most innovative combined pda/phone/musicplayer the world has yet to see, the market is calling out for it. I hope theres an apple event announcement shortly.

Feel guilty bringing this up, but I wonder what the transition plan is for when SJ steps down?

I hope it will happen gradually instead of rapidly.

Why is everyone freaked out about the tag team?

ALL the keynotes that I have ever seen, for WWDC or macworld are tag-team efforts. (and I have seen plenty of them first hand)

and yes, he does seem thin... but seeing him move and hearing him talk.... I am much less worried than after the pics from the "cube" opening.

For anyone who is interested, he had a CUREABLE form of pancreatic cancer, and the doctors caught it so early on there was hardly anything to write home about.

Looking further down this thread you'd think SJ was on his death bed. IMO he looks very healthy, being thin and watching what you eat makes you look like a European, not a fat American.

SJ is fine, he's 51 for goodness sake, of course he's beginning to show his age. He's been the Silicon Valley Golden Boy for 30 years, I think he deserves to look a little weathered.

Steve does look gaunt and less lively.

Compare this keynote to one a few years back...

I don't think anyone here mentioned that Steve consulted his notes A LOT more than in previous keynotes, specifically when he was sitting doing the demos. The other tag team members did more standing monologues and Steve did more sitting with his notes doing demos. This aspect of his performance does not point to illness, but to distraction during the rehearsals.

I was thinking about the stock options scandal and how that must have taken away a lot of the time he would normally be eating and sleeping... and rehearsing. The recent accounting restatement is a really big deal, and you have to imagine how much running around and fast thinking Stevie had to do to contain it as much as he did, right at the same time he was supposed to be preparing for the WWDC.

If the world knows of a big problem at secretive Apple, then Apple must have actually had a far bigger problem internally, which had to be massaged and spun for PR's sake. Steve's RDF must have been in overdrive, which would be really taxing, physically and mentally.

This explanation fits all the facts, including the excessive use of notes, the tag-teaming, the lack of energy relative to past Stevenotes, and his gaunt and distracted appearance.

There is definetely something wrong. Is the man a vegetarian? He needs to eat a big ass steak once and a while, and quit playing water polo with bono while eating soy hot dogs.

Now, this is skinny (Apple Store employee on right):

http://ifostore.cachefly.net/fifth_avenue/photo6/pages/DSC_2333.html

Who is that kid? Big Bird?

Slow news day following the keynote? Geez...

Your problem is that you are so used to the "fat American" look that anyone that is in their correct weight category looks thin. You hang around too much with programmers whose diet consists of Dr. Pepper, Twinkies and McDonalds. Get a grip SteveJack and MDN readers. Oh, and get some exercise while you are at it. Apple's obvious hint to all of you fatties obviously didn't register in your brains. "You are too freakin' fat! All you do is sit around playing on your computers and listening to your iPods. Here - put this in your shoe and this in your iPod and go out and get some exercise for once in your miserable life!!!!!" Yes, they are talking to you!!!

Do you Americans realise how stupid your accent sounds?
If you really have something to say, please remove that potato from your mouth first, thanks.
If I was the Queen, I would lock you in the Tower,
for repeated language abuse and arrogance.

A lot of non-americans on this thread.

I am an american and I agree with a lot of them.

We are too fat.

I am too fat.

Nonetheless, Jobs compared to a year ago, the difference is striking. His cheeks, his shoulders, his pics, his legs.

Yes, a man's health is between him and his family and doctor.

But hell, we love the guy, and what he's accomplished at Apple since he's been back in charge.

So all's fair for respectful conjecture on the matter.

I think there is little doubt that Steve's health is not that great.

The last time we saw the man, at the Cupertino council meeting thing, it was clear that he was a bit frail.

I was hoping that we'd see him spring back with this WWDC, but when they announced weeks ago that he'd be hosting a group of Apple execs to preview Leopard, I'm sorry, but that immediately spelled some trouble. That said, I think he did a great job at MCing the event.

I'm looking at it like this: Steve has brilliantly created a huge amount of buzz with his various keynotes, for pennies on the dollar of traditional marketing.

But Apple's marketing is going to have to attempt to fill his shoes, as much as they can, in a limited-Steve world.

There may not be a charismatic figure to take over for some time, if ever.

I'm sure he'll be guiding the reins for years to come, but maybe the big Stevenote event is a thing of the past. I'm glad I got to see one in person years ago in NYC.

Here's hoping not.

Buddha bless, Steve.

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Your problem is that you are so used to the "fat American" look that anyone that is in their correct weight category looks thin. You hang around too much with programmers whose diet consists of Dr. Pepper, Twinkies and McDonalds.
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BZZT wrong.

I'm used to the "skinny Asian" look, thank you. I know what a healthy-but-thin, non-United-States-junkfood-diet body looks like.

Steve is either presently ill or recovering from some illness not disclosed, or he is off the meds he was using from after his illness.

But he is underweight for his frame. He is fumbling for words and walking gingerly.

Get real and stop acting like only those that care about Steve Jobs are the ones that insist he is A-OK and tip top health.

If anything, the snobbish vegans and Europeans are doing Steve a disservice for being so unconcerned, just for them to be able to get in a few digs at the typical fat American's expense.

Gee, thanks, Steve! What a great idea!!! Let's start a rumor to help drive down Apple's stock price!! What a great concept!!

One of the dangers of the internet is that anyone can say just about anything, regardless of whether there is any factual basis for it. But hey, if you read it on the internet, then it MUST be true!

Steve, consider well the impact of your words. Rather than spew up whatever is your first reaction, and instead of writing a ready-fire-aim piece like that which you did here, THINK. STOP AND THINK. Brushfire rumors get started this way. And the next thing you know, Wall Street and Microsoft PR will get ahold of what you wrote, and twist it in ways that you can scarcely imagine.

Before you next write another blog, consider well the words of Mark Twain:

"Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut."

OK, Steve looks thinner. OK. But did anyone notice what is really important.
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I think Steve is LOSING his hair.!!! Really. It looks like he has less hair than last year. This could be serious folks.

N.

IMHO, Schiller is the guy who looks unhealthy.....

so how tall is Steve?

at 5'10", the healthy range is 135 and 170.....

the cracker-barrel crowd views 225 as average

He did look thinner but he doesn't look ill. My guess for why he tag teamed the presentation is, there has been so much talk about what will happen when he eventually steps down, that he wants to make Apple less about Steve Jobs and put some other faces out there in the open.

As for Bertrand Serlett, I thought he was hilarious! I've never thought much of Schiller's public speaking, but I thought Scott Forstall was excellent, and I could definitely see him as a possible successor for the public face of Apple.

I noticed the same thing while watching the last few keynotes. Last year's WWDC, the Macworld Expo in January, and this year's WWDC.

Steve looks ill, weakly, sickly, and unfocused.

The folks over at Mac360 and Wired News say the same thing as Steve Jack.

Steve Jobs needs a heir apparent, a successor waiting in the wings. Either that, or a couple of good steaks.

My wife noticed and commented on the same thing, that he looked "skinny", not trim.

As for me, I think he just needed a shave, really badly. You know you have too much power when every employee in your company is afraid to say to you "Steve, can you clean up just a little, before you address the entire Mac community via webcast?"

I thing it is a sign that the MagSafe cables are affecting his health. Beware the MagSafe cables! /sarcasm

Maybe the sparkle was not there because he had to cut part of his presentation (because the product was not quite ready). That usually pisses him off enough to appear to be sick and tired.

You are concerned about Steve? As someone said you should be converned about Phil, he's overweight and stumbles a lot when making presentations. He must be sick!

Face it, Steve is getting older and he must think about the future, some day he is going to step down that day there must be people replacing him who have the customer's trust and experience of keynotes. The earlier he starts to gradually share the responsibilities the better.

And come on, Bertrand Serlet is one of the coolest guys at Apple, if you can't understand him the problem is you not him. I understand him perfectly and I'm not even a native english speaker, just try harder.

The problem with cancer is that it is so unpredictable.
My uncle had curable cancer...and they cured it, but then about a year later they said cancer had spread to other parts of his body. It took 5 years from the time they "cured" him until he died of cancer in another part of his body.
My mother-in-law is the same basic story. Cured her. She was doing great for year or so and then slowly, slowly she started withering away. They found cancer in other parts of her body.
She went for surgery last December and passed away in later May. They could not give her chemotherapy or radiation therapy because they said that would kill her faster.
Steve has that gaunt withering away look that my relatives had.
From what I lived with my relatives who had cancer, don´t go counting on Steve giving the presentation at the January Macworld. Unless some miracle happens.

It´s too bad. My sympathy goes to him and his family.

This whole "it's none of our business" line is tired and moot.

Of course it is none of our business, a person's health info is confidential.

This, however, only means he has no obligation to disclose the info to us.

Poor taste notwithstanding, it doesn't mean we can't speculate about it or chat about it so long as we aren't outright slanderous or libelous.

Interest in Steve's health does prove to me "there is a well founded public interest in the specific information being widely known"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_comment

Don't even talk about such things! Too scary to even harbor a single thought bubble on it.

MDN MW="family" Yikes. STEVE is like family! In fact I would miss him more than I would some of my real relatives! (Esp. a couple of them)

Don't even talk about such things! Too scary to even harbor a single thought bubble on it. Don't jinx him.

MDN MW="family" Yikes. STEVE is like family! In fact I would miss him more than I would some of my real relatives! (Esp. a couple of them)

That gaunt Lincoln-like look.

Well maybe he's got diabetes? It's basically a pancreatic disorder...just sayin'.

Leander Kahney wrote an op-ed piece in wired.com that more or less asked the same question of whether or not Jobs is ill. Maybe we're looking too much into this, maybe not. Either way, I'm hoping that Jobs looks better by the time Macworld '07 rolls around.

I hope I'm wrong in my assessment but he has the classic look of someone with HIV/AIDS - he's just withering away. He still has all his hair so I doubt its cancer. Let's face it, this isn't some "health kick gone haywire" where he decided he'd drop to 90 lbs. Something's definitely up but no doubt you won't hear a peep from Apple's reality-distortion-field a.k.a. 'p.r. department' - just some spin if he ever falls over in the apple office that he has 'pneumonia' or something.

I think he is extremely sick, and I have thought so for a while.

I was shocked by his thin appearance at Macworld back in January, and the fact that he coughed his way through the presentation and seemed to lose his place.

He was far worse at WWDC. Thin, occasionally confused, and apparently not able to complete the entire keynote by himself. I think he will not be the CEO of Apple computer for much longer. If he really is sick, he should be spending the time with his family and not wasting time bringing new widgets to market.

I wouldn't have the sick feeling I do if my own father hadn't died of pancreatic cancer (he had the worse type), and if Jobs didn't look just like he did when he started to get quite sick.

I hope I am wrong.

Get a life

"Get a life"

Get a soul.

Steve Jack is a moron.

Eat a Steak or 3,

Your link was hilarious! Many of you

have probably seen that before,

but I haven't. Balmer is such an

idiot. Developers, developers,

developers!

bill gates wrote: "He still has all his hair so I doubt its cancer."

Not true - one only loses their hair if they take the chemo or radiation therapy. My relative died of cancer with a full head of hair - didn´t take chemo or radiation.

Steve is definitely seriously sick.

If Steve was not a public figure I guess it would be none of our business, but he is the CEO of Apple computer and on the Board of Directors of Disney. He has impact on two very large, influential companies. Owners of the stock of those companies have the right to know what is going on with his health. This is a common sense question asked of all CEOs.

ok just so you guys dont get out of control on this, STEVE JOBS WAS NEVER SICk.

the tumor they found was NOT malignant. there was a tumor, they cut it out, end of story.

DO you get it!!! the guy doesnt shove hamburgers down his throat, so hes not a fat bastard, that all.

people that dont eat meat tend to be leaner (duh), hes 51 years old. Its healthier to be thin than be over weight and have your arteries blocked with fat and straining to pump blood around your body, and evertually die of a heart-attack.


yea so the guy looked at his notes more, so what!! again the guys 51 years old, cut em a break, i mean seriously, the guy looks at his notes and everyone starts saying the guys going to die.

wtf!!

Graphanalyzer: Well NO $HIT people lose their hair from the chemo rather than the cancer - I was saving space by not stating the obvious for the short-bus crowd.

Carlo: So your assessment is "he doesn't eat hamburgers" and that is supposed to explain his thin, gangly appearance while coughing his way through the presentation and not being able to finish it without someone else taking over for him? Do us a favor and post your email address so when they finally announce his condition we can email you and ask what him "not being overweight" had to do with it. I bet you're a mac user.

Once there get to be 5000 posts on a topic, why bother to post, since it all becomes white noise after about the 10-15th post...

Then again, if that's true, no one is probably reading this either.

FWIW, i think steve just looks like a guy that bucks the average american trend of being so fat that they need to be wheeled around on a cart or falter under their own body weight.

It's lighting -

Besides this is a pathetic attempt to spread FUD about apple.

To Bobby Skinner:

Steve is 51 not 61. We were born the same year, so it's easy for me to remember. Easier than where are my freakin' car keys.

there are 2 types of pancreatic cancer, one slow-growing, one fast-growing. From what he said at the time, he had the slow-growing variety. The fast-growing type will kill you within a couple of months. The slow-growing variety takes a couple of years. The 5-year survival rates are 50% if you catch the slow-type soon enough though. The question is, did they catch it before it metastasized? (again, both types will spread, one just a lot faster than the other)

Is Steve Jack Sick?
Yeah, Freddy thinks so. Steve Jack, you are out of line. Steve Jobs heads up Apple Computer and has an interesting and fun job. That does not give you the right to speculate on what is entirely personal matters.

Freddy's gut says that The Steve is just fine, but a lot of other people around here need some serious meds.

This has to be one of the most retarted posts in MDN to date. Come on just get of his jock already. Yes, I love Apple, own a Mac and an iPod, admire Steve Jobs, but this kind of crap borders on sickly obsession, with some sort of cheap novel undercurrent. Get a grip!!!