“I’m not going to beat around the bush here. Many of us are thinking the same thing. Nobody wants to say it, but I will: I’m worried that Steve Jobs is sick,” SteveJack writes over in our Opinion section today.
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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!!!