“Jobs’s health is occasionally the topic of chatter because he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer four years ago, for which he underwent surgery that Apple said was successful. (Apple didn’t disclose that Jobs had been ill until after he was on the mend.) Mr. Jobs is also widely considered nearly irreplaceable at Apple, where he has been the architect of a dramatic resurgence in the company’s fortunes over the past decade,” Wingfield reports. “Fortunately for Apple, no replacement is needed.”
Full article here.
[Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
Excellent news! Get well soon, Mr. Jobs!
Am I going to be the only one to call Bullshit on this?
MW: said “Yes, I said bullshit”
So he has a bug, thats believable. I’m sure it the STRICT MacroBiotic Diet. He looks radiant!
Steve Jobs should be honest with us, this time.
It looks like B.S.!!! Hopefully it’s not the iCancer.
PS: My friend is living proof that MacroBiotic Diets CURE CANCER. It has to be followed TO THE T. This will cause massive weight lose.
You people are crazy. At least 6 people at my work had some form of the flu or strep throat in the last number of weeks. This statement is believable.
To the flippant insensitive person thinking of making a reference to Apple’s alleged vulnerability to viruses vs. Windows, let me remind you…
….I thought of it first!!!!
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…cue all the conspiracy theorists claiming that this is just a cover story. Granted, Apple did somewhat forfeit the benefit of the doubt by keeping Jobs’ earlier illness secret, but that doesn’t automatically imply that they’re lying here, too.
As was mentioned in the previous thread (by “Greerview”), the emaciated look of cancer patients is a result of the cancer treatment, not the cancer itself. If Jobs were undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer a second time, he’d certainly not have been healthy enough to give a presentation. Therefore, the official explanation is probably correct.
Of course, if they’d been honest the first time around, they wouldn’t have to work so hard to convince everybody they’re telling the truth this time.
That’s what they said about Andropov….
Feed a cold, starve a fever.
Must be a fever.
He looked thin for sure in the keynote, but his voice and speech betrayed no signs of frailty. I’m willing to bet he’s doing just fine.
And what about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer? what is their excuse for being retard, distracted, non foot grounded, etc?
I told you it was probably a tomato sandwich.
“Feed a cold, starve a fever. Must be a fever.”
If he had a fever, the only prescription is more cowbell.
For all those who call BS, please keep in mind that Apple, as a publicly traded company, cannot make an official statement that is BS on a matter that is material to the performance of the stock. I don’t think anyone would argue that SJ’s health is material.
“And what about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer? what is their excuse for being retard, distracted, non foot grounded, etc?”
I think Ballmer lived under power lines and ate paint chips when he was young.
No conspiracy folks. Apple cannot afford another scandal by withholding info about Jobs’ “true” health situation. Besides the flu this year has been brutal, so what’s so hard to believe?
Yeah, but it’s all that weight loss. That’s the thing. Do you know how many weeks it takes to loose even 10 pounds by drastically reducing your caloric intake? You don’t lose 10 pounds in 10 days if you stay hydrated. How many pounds do you think he is down? 15? 20?
How many weeks has he been sick with this so-described “common bug” that has brought on such uncommon weight loss?
BTW, cancer patients can lose weight due to treatment if only because chemo kills your appetite — and even your taste for food — for several days after a treatment. I’ve known two people who’ve undergone chemo. I think they each had a treatment every two weeks. Each one was “down” the following 4-5 days after treatment and was “up” again the next week thereafter — till it was treatment time again. The one continued to work on the “up” weeks, so it is possible, and if you’re a workhorse like Jobs, I bet he would have engineers bring him prototypes to his hospital bed so he could sign off on them personally.
Everyone occasionally will have a bad photo taken, whether under bad lighting condition, unfavorable angle, whatever reason. One should look at many other pictures from the same event to judge that it was nothing to be alarmed. His Steveness does look a little thin because he is a vegetarian, may be he should start eating meat, at lease some chicken or somesome. =P
Four years ago, Apple was silent about Jobs’s health status. Had someone tried back then to charge them for some wrongdoing, their defense would have been probably not considering private health matters relevant to the performance of the company. Depending on the skills of legal teams on both sides, they could have either won or lost.
This time around, though, it is different. Apple officially made a statement regarding Steve Jobs’s health. That makes it clear that they consider it material and relevant to the company. If this statement were in fact untrue, that would clearly be prosecutable.
Therefore, all is well, folks. Our favourite CEO exhausted himself sick, what with all the arm-wrestling wireless carriers’, record labels’, movie studios’ CEOs, in addition to overseeing the clandestine development of the best cellphone on the planet, plus best OS, best computing platform and best eco-system. It would exhaust any meat-eater, let alone our vegetarian CEO…
Being overweight is so common that when we see someone that is fit, we think they are ill. Steve is probably far healthier than the majority.
“PS: My friend is living proof that MacroBiotic Diets CURE CANCER. It has to be followed TO THE T. This will cause massive weight lose.(SB loss)
Yeah, you starve to death.
I work with a lot of docs and they state that Steve has the look of a Vegan.
I’m with Ampar…
MORE COWBELL!!!!
Leave the man be ill or not he turned up did his job just like u or I would or most of us hats off the him . I not who cares if he is ill more its not our business he is still a person with his own life to live .
Just take a look at the March presentation of SDK and you find that he’s been like this for a few months. It’s just that he sported a bit of a stubble in March that you guys did not see this; here he is clean shaven.
Chill it boyz & galz
Steve isn’t the only one that got a bug…MDN.