“In the days following Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, a number of online publications expressed concern that Steve Jobs was sick,” Thomas Claburn reports for InformationWeek.
“And having attended the keynote, it did seem odd to me that a showman as accomplished as Jobs would delegate so much of the presentation time to capable but less compelling Apple speakers. So I e-mailed Katie Cotton, Apple’s VP of worldwide corporate communications, to inquire about Jobs’ health. Her response: ‘Steve’s health is robust and we have no idea where these rumors are coming from.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Obi-John” for the heads up.]
The rumors were coming from all over because the guy has had cancer and looks as if he has dropped 20+ pounds in the past year. That said, to hear Apple’s spokesperson officially say that “Steve’s health is robust” should be heartening to those who were worried about him.
Related article:
Is Steve Jobs sick? – August 08, 2006
GOD LIVES
On the other hand, what did you expect them to say? ‘O yeah, The Steve is really sick, and could go any day.’
Like when he said there would NEVER be a video iPod.
Personally, I hope he’s well. The Cult of Jobs = Apple as far as I’m concerned.
It is heartening that the man who has had such an impact in the way we as 21st century humans work, play, and interact with one another is being reported as having “robust” health – though I don’t really know what that means.
No doubt Apple as a company has a plan for Job’s departure, whatever form or timing that takes, but when that day does come, no doubt the moarners will as well.
This news makes me day.
I am so pleased to read this for Steve. for his family and for his friends. This is truly great news.
I don’t suppose that any of you have considered that he may not be looking so great BECAUSE HE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A STOCK OPTION SCANDAL AND INVESTIGATION.
DUH.
Akido,
As a publicly traded company, you cannot have a statement made by an official company spokesperson about a material issue (I think Steve’s health IS financially material to the company) that is knowingly untrue. If so, look out for massive shareholder lawsuits.
However, if Steve hasn’t told anyone he’s sick…
Didn’t the average man in 1900, weigh 130 pounds? Anyone watch PBS’s Frontier House?
I tend to think this was an audition for keynote speakers as the ‘Steve’ can’t be everywhere at all times, I expect to see more faces at future events as they get us used to seeing someone other than Mr. jobs.
I don’t suppose that any of you have considered that he may not be looking so great BECAUSE HE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A STOCK OPTION SCANDAL AND INVESTIGATION.
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Scandal? Well that is still undetermined. However, I do agree that an investigation of this sort has got to be weighing heavily on the guy and may or may not greatly impact Apple’s future reputation.
So Steve drops 20 and it’s un-healthy? He’s probably at his optimum weight about now (he always was packing a few extra that his svelt black outfit slimmed down…).
Okay, enough talking about some guy’s weight – I’m getting grossed out.
On the other hand, we SHOULD be worried about Phil Shiller…he looks to be overweight…this often leads to other health problems such as Diabetes.
i like that new guy , not the french one , the slick young guy
he could be steve’s protege
I was also concerned about Steve’s health after watching his WWDC keynote. Besides losing weight and handing off a big chuck of the presentation to others, Steve also appeared to be walking with a very slight limp. But having survived a close call with cancer, perhaps he has simply changed his diet to something more extremely health-oriented, like macrobiotics. And perhaps he was limping because he sprained his ankle hiking. There’s no reason to jump to conclusions and, like many others, I hope he enjoys a long and healthy life.
Steve Jobs has simply been using his new and probably free Nike shoes along with his special version of the Nano to put miles on the road.
Look closely, Steve Jobs is developing a runners type body, along with a little tan. Although running gives you tone of muscle and especially tone for your heart, it also gives you, especially if you are 50+, a drawn, skin hanging look in the face. Steve Jobs is not sick, he is getting seriously into running and nothing more. Why do you think the sport kit has so much emphasis anyways?
i like that new guy , not the french one , the slick young guy
he could be steve’s protege
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Yeah, he was a good speaker, but that doesn’t mean he has what it takes to be a CEO. There are lots of great public speakers in the world, there are few great CEO’s. Steve Jobs is both.
I noticed that Steve looked older. But it wasn’t because he was thinnner. It was because he had that scraggly white beard. Lose the beard, Steve.
i liked the slick young guy at first but then i got pissed off at him because he was annoying me trying to be a wanna-be steve jobs.
personally i love that psychotic french guy. he’s zany and very stranger and that’s why i feel he was the 2nd best presenter after jobs. phil was horrible and yes he does need to go on a diet. perhaps he and steve can dine together for the next 6 months and maybe phil will drop his gut by macworld 2007.
btw, i am deeply in love with MDN but sometimes i cannot stand you.
“i like that new guy , not the french one , the slick young guy”
gay.
Phil Schiller is a horrible public speaker.. He looks very awkward and phony.
The French guy looked like a serial killer.
The young guy was good, but dressed like a dork.
Steve, well, Steve is always great.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the limp. I was only able to watch snippets of the Keynote but he appears as compared to his photos during the opening of the New York Apple store. I’m more pessimistic about his health. No more Jobs in WWDC ’07?
Just my 2¢. Don’t hate me for it.
Well, I’m gay too, but that’s not why i liked him..
Don’t any of you dolts get it? This is simply one of the TOP SECRET new features of Leopard’s core animation, it makes you look 20lbs. lighter on video!!
I didn’t think he looked sick at WWDC – thinner yes, but not sick. That being said, I wouldn’t expect Apple to say anything different.
The whole tag team keynote thing was blown way out of proportion. First of all, he’s shared the keynote with others at just about every event since he came back. Phil Schiller is a regular as was Jon Rubenstein before he retired. This keynote definitely had more, as he gave a good portion of it to Scott Forstall (who was really good IMO), but I think the reason for that is that Steve is probably trying to step back a bit and make the company a little less about him. Surely the folks in Cupertino know that there is a lot of talk about Apple really being Steve Jobs, Inc. and they understand that he’ll probably want or need to step down (at least from the day to day) in the next ten to fifteen years. It’s going to take awhile to change the perception of the company, and I think his was the beginning. I’d be willing to bet he’ll be sharing the stage a lot more from now on, but not because he’s sick, but because he’s smart.
Yomomma, one in evey ten people are gay. Get over it.
After seeing other CEOs like Jabba the Ballmer, or Rob “The Gobbler” Glaser, Steve looks like he’s near death. You could make 2 Steve Jobs out of a Ballmer. I mean, when Ballmer sits, the Richter scale notices.
allen,
A) 10% is an over inflated fallacy.
B) it was a joke, get over it.
Jim of Davao,
Of course no one hates you. You are ,however, wrong.
THE IDEA OF THE CENTURY:
Listen to me and listem to me loud and clear folks. I have the answer on who should be the rightful heir as macgeek presenter for Apple’s various public functions.
THAT HOT CHICK DANIKA WHATEVER HER LAST NAME IS. She’s smart, sexy, and macsexy. That’s right, I want that tight-bodied macgeek presenting every future macshow when Steve decideds he’s tired of this crap and rides off into the sunset with his gatorade sized bottle of v-8.
LONG LING STEVE
It worries me that Apple would even respond to the question. Makes me think they ARE worried about his health.
I hear Castro’s doing fine as well..
Yeah, if you see the keynote with Steve standing in front a dark background with all the shadows on his hands, he definitely looked thin. However, when he is in front of bright background, he looked just fine! IMO, this is either gratuitous worries or deliberate FUD about Steve’s health.
Steve just needs another kundalini bubble burst and in no time he’ll be scarffing down vege burgers from McDonalds with ease! Preety soon you will all be crying complaining that he’s fatter than Phil! GOOD JOB PUNKS!!!!!
In a related story………
Apple is now sending out Mr. Job’s blood and stool samples to stockholders, in an effort to try to diffuse web blog B.S.
“Yomomma, one in evey ten people are [sic] gay. Get over it.”
More accurately . . .
“Yomomma, one in evey ten people IS gay. Get over it.”
(Subject of sentence is “one,” not “people.”)
“On the other hand, we SHOULD be worried about Phil Shiller…he looks to be overweight…this often leads to other health problems such as Diabetes.”
I think the stockholders over at MS and Real have more worries on that count. Just look at Ballmer and Glaser.
I doubt anyone in Japan thought jobs looked sick. The rumors come from the fact that almost everyone in the USA is overweight. (Thirty percent of adults over 20 are OBESE.) By comparison, a person of healthy weight has come to seem unhealthily thin. People no longer have a reasonable concept of the body of a healthy human being.
Can WE put an end to this particular FUD now.
Jeeze!
Trevor,
In what way do you like that new, young, slick guy???
Great. Stev’s health is robust. Stay the course, Apple.
“On the other hand, we SHOULD be worried about Phil Shiller…he looks to be overweight…this often leads to other health problems such as Diabetes.”
Phil Shiller is obese, most definitely obese. He looked sloppily dressed as well – his shirt was too tight around the midrif. I wish the caftan would come back (in the US), it is very flattering to us fat folk when everyone wears a caftan.
I wonder how long it took for Steve to tell Apple that he was sick the first time?…
Frankly, the value of the corporate communications person’s words has about as much verasity of a typical MDN take on Enderle or Thurott – none.
i like his cock
so sue me
😀
Where did those rumors come from? Tabloid journalism. Right next to the Bat Boy travels back through time to father Cleopatra’s love child articles. I believe MDN was one of the first to distribute these rumors too. Go MDN!
Frank, I didn’t say I liked him. I was commenting on someone elses post..
My comment started after the row of dashes. When someone types under a row of dashes, it means that they are commenting on the text above the dashes.
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I had a feeling Steve was ok. It’s likely that he changed his eating habbits.
Interestingly enough. I know quite a few vegans. The problem is that every single one of them have poor muscle tone. EAT MORE PROTEIN!
BTW: requesting to pull Flappo’s post. Thats just plain innapropriate by any standard.
Flappo, you are not Howard Stern. Don’t quit your day job.
The “10% of the population is gay” number comes from gay activists; those who have tried to do a scientific analysis say it’s really more like 3%.
imacDave writes: “I know quite a few vegans. The problem is that every single one of them have poor muscle tone. EAT MORE PROTEIN!”
Poor muscle tone is usually from a lack of physical activity.
One of the best sources of protein is actually green leafy vegetables. Nuts and grains are also good sources. Meat, it turns out, is not such a good source as it is too concentrated. Most Americans overeat protein, which overloads the body, which must expel it ASAP. To do so, calcium is used. Excessive concentrated protein intake is one of the leading causes of osteoporosis.
And what was the average life expectancy of that 130lb man? Granted, perhaps fattening up isn’t the only key to longevity, but a little fatty tissue seems to be a good thing from a health perspective.
Better Said
What is an “evey” ?
face meets floor ?
Didn´t the press also report that Castro´s health is robust.
The best way for Steve to set the record straight is do a TV interview discussing his health. No Q&A print thing. And having a shill report on his health for him has no credibility and leads to more rumors.
The Apple woman said Steve´s health is robust, but she muttered the rest of the sentence to herself, “yeah, robust, for a guy that has cancer and has x months until retirement….”
Ballmer looks fat
Gates looks dorky and stupid
Jobs looks jussssssssssssssssttttttttt fine!
Leave it alone.
Freddy, I’m fat, the pig.
yea corporate spokespersonel never LIE!!
jeez MDN, sometimes??!?!
@KenC,
You have something there.
I don’t see how the naturalist health nuts can drone on about the life style and diets of our pre cancer, diabetes and heart disease ancestors. They had a life expectancy of 30. You were considered old at 25. Who wants to live like that? Maybe they didn’t have cancer and heart disease etc at the rates we do today because they didn’t live long enough.
You know cancer and heart disease is still very rare today in people under 30. These could be conditions brought on by living well beyond what the body is designed for. The average cancer patient is in their 50’s or 60’s. Twice the age of our healthful ancestors.
Keep in mind that the natural grain based diet was the diet of the poor. The upper class had access to meat, fish and poultry. They also tended to live longer and more healthful lives than did the grain eating serfs.
Also, this could be just me, but the vegan health food every thing natural types seem to look 10 years older than they should.
Didn’t the average man in 1900, weigh 130 pounds? Anyone watch PBS’s Frontier House?
The average man was also about 5′ 4″ and died before 50 (both rough numbers).
So blame today’s bodies on McDonalds and medicine.
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It worries me that Apple would even respond to the question. Makes me think they ARE worried about his health.
When a rumor turns into a crisis, there’s a time to respond and set the record straight.
That said, SJ should have a physical & fully disclose the results. If there’s nothing to hide, there should be no problems in airing the truth.
Ballmer should do the same. THAT guy is a massive heart attack waiting to happen, assuming he doesn’t detonate or spontaneously combust first.
Well even if he was sick they sure as hell wouldn’t tell us about it. the stock would hit negative numbers in no time!
Rainy Days says “The “10% of the population is gay” number comes from gay activists; those who have tried to do a scientific analysis say it’s really more like 3%.
Actually, that’s incorrect. The origin of the “10% of the population is gay” comes from Alfred Kinsey’s first book on human sexuality, published in 1947.
Modern day estimates for homosexual men are actually higher at about 15%, while Lesbian women are around 6%. That’s not to say that Kinsey’s findings were not accurate, it is because Kinsey’s studies were based on actual homosexual relationships…. In 1947, homosexuality was much less accepted. Therefore, there were less people
Greater research proves that evidence of homosexuality has existed in every society since the beginning of recorded time which is why the general consensue for most modern day scientists is that homosexuality is pre-determined and not a choice. Genetic studies on human sexuality are very close to being able to isolate the chromosomes that determine sexual orientation.
Woops, forgot to finish a sentence in the above post….
(from the third paragraph) ….In 1947, homosexuality was much less accepted. Therefore, there were less people involved in homosexual relationships, regardless of their true sexual orientation..
What’s this got to do with Steve Jobs health? Nothing.
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Since everyone’s missed it:
Apple is facing a possible NASDAQ delisting over the SEC filing delay.
See today’s Wall Street Journal (8/14/06), page C4.
Dealing with a potential stock delisting would make any CEO look sick!
Oops,
I don’t think anyone missed it, but the NASDAQ issue made news on Friday. That’s a lifetime ago on these forums.
I hope he IS fine but you know how they (any famous person) try to cover stuff up sometimes.
Anytime someone loses a LOT of weight is cause for concern IMHO.
Unless someone is on their death bed they’re always said to be “fine”….
As has been stated above, because Apple’s health is so dependant on Steve’s, he would be duty-bound to disclose any life-threatening conditions. I put the weight loss down to a change of diet and/or lifestyle since the cancer scare.
If this was an audition for alternate Apple presenters so that Steve Jobs does not have to do it ALL, the last VP guy who went through the Leopard “Top Ten List” with Jobs did the best by far…
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