“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.
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