“Does Apple’s Steve Jobs have cancer again?” Henry Blodget asks for SIlicon Alley Insider.
“In the photos we saw of yesterday’s event, Steve appeared dangerously thin. The most likely explanation, we think, is that Steve permanently changed his diet after his bout with cancer a few years ago. Given that Steve did not believe that cancer needed to be disclosed publicly until after the fact, however, it also seems possible that the weight loss could be an indication that Steve’s cancer has reappeared,” Blodget writes.
“We hope it hasn’t. As we argued here, however, we believe that Steve’s cancer should have been disclosed earlier, and–if it ever recurs–should immediately be disclosed. It seems inappropriate to ask Apple to issue a statement confirming that Steve is in perfect health, but we know such a statement would make some of concerned Apple and Steve fans feel better,” Blodget writes.
Full article here.
Valleywag’s Nicholas Carlson writes, “Doctors diagnosed Apple CEO Steve Jobs with pancreatic cancer in October 2003. Jobs hid the news from Apple shareholders until July 2004 — after he’d explored all other alternatives to surgery, and had to schedule time away from the office to go under the knife. People watching the imperiously slim presenter at the WWDC today are finding it hard to look at Job’s frailer-than-ever frame and not wonder if he’s still suffering.”
Full article, “Apple CEO Steve Jobs looks dangerously thin,” here.
When we first saw Jobs we worried, too. We’ve since somehow convinced ourselves that “everything’s okay,” (classic denial, perhaps), but, seriously, we’d really like for Apple to tell us publicly about Steve’s “robust health” again, or at least see the results of someone feeding the man, or hear that he just won a marathon somewhere. There’s “thin” and there’s “too thin.” Steve is “too thin” for a man with a past cancer history who has millions of shareholders invested in Apple; many who have invested in the company mostly because of his presence.
Even Drudge this morning has a headline “Concern over APPLE Steve Jobs’s physical appearance…” pointing to an AP photo gallery of Jobs on stage yesterday.
Apple need to address this issue again.
[UPDATE: 4:20pm EDT: Apple has addressed the issue: Apple: CEO Steve Jobs has ‘common bug’ and now on the mend with the aid of antibiotics – June 10, 2008]
His torso looks way too long in that shot, like it was either enhanced or his pants be saggin’.
He does not look healthy.
Only in the USA would being thin be considered sick.
“He does not look healthy.”
Most strict vegetarians don’t.
Given the form of cancer he was diagnosed with (pancreatic), his survival from 2003 to 2008 is nothing short of remarkable. Pancreatic cancer is known to devastate it’s victims and those diagnosed with it rarely survive longer than 6 months to a year.
Should he be suffering a relapse it is doubtful he would be healthy enough to even consider appearing on stage.
@ Anim8me2
Pancreatic cancer comes in any forms, but Apple indicated that Steve Jobs did not have incurable form.
You are very correct about the incurable form.
I had a big lead guitar performance last year and dropped 10 lbs, both muscle and fat over the stress of learning all those parts and the buildup for the concert. The stress snuck up on me and I didn’t realize it until afterwards when I saw the video.
Just imagine the pressure Steve Jobs has to produce every single time? Let’s not mention the stress of staying on top with Pixar. He is also not getting any younger. His thinness doesn’t bother me, his lack of muscle tone does, though. I would hire a personal trainer and eat more protein/carbs/good fats while lightly working out.
In 20 years when he finally does die. These idiots are going to say “See I told you so!”
just my $0.02
“imperiously” !!??!! I think the writer means ‘perilously’. “imperiously” meas in an authoritative manner.
I too thought he looks thin but was convinced by the usual RDF that he was fine.
I too thought he looked awfully thin.
As for disclosure, which right is greater, HIPAA or SEC/FTC? Tough call…
People said the same thing after the MacWorld keynote. Has anybody compared the videos? lol I see plenty of people in the street, or the mall, or the book store every day that look exactly like that. Don’t forget, the man IS in his 50’s. And it’s not as if he USED to weigh 300 lbs.
Personally, I really hope the man is OK. He is such an asset to this world, truly. After seeing him yesterday, he’ll be in my prayers, for sure.
My folks are vegan (except they eat fish maybe once a month) and don’t look nearly that thin. They did loose a lot of weight after going vegan but they stopped after they achieved a healthy weight, which, I must say, looks at least 25 lbs. heaver than Steve.
Hope the man is OK.
We’d all rather he look like Rob Glaser? Please people … That guy has far greater a chance of immediate heart failure than Jobs has of anything.
He’s just getting older. Haven’t you noticed how skinny old men are?
It should be pointed out that cancer doesn’t make you thin. Cancer TREATMENT makes you thin. And if Steve were really undergoing cancer treatment, there’s no way in hell he would have been healthy enough to give a WWDC keynote.
gow
Really? Not Ethiopia or Sudan? Just in the US? Really?
I bet they are getting thin in Burma.
And happy about it….
Ah, yes. Henry Blodget, the man who brought us the dot-bomb crash, a former stock market analyst who got busted for lying and for having massive conflicts of interest. A man who it turned out had no clue about the investments he was touting, who somehow escaped getting a long stay in a federal penitentiary. That Henry Blodget, who has no surfaced as the editor of the venerable, highly esteemed Silicon Alley Insider, the same wonderful publication that brought you Sarah (I-am-a-complete-dimbulb-but-I-get-by-because-I-have-huge-cha cha bingos) Lacey.
Why does ANYONE take these idiots seriously? They are so rife with conflicts of interest (can anyone say, “FUD attack pushed by large hedge funds desperately trying to short Apple stock by paying off jerks like Blodget, Cramer, Drudge, et al to push their lies?). Truth be told, Steve Jobs is a vegan, and is on a low fat diet. Compared to the rest of us fat couch potatoes, he might look skinny. But as another poster so poignantly observed, in other parts of the world he would be considered normal
What a crock. And this passes for news?
I have a friend that recently started running and doing triathalons. He looks this skinny and is perfectly healthy.
Skinny != sick.
@ critic:
Or perhaps you know a couple people who are vegetarian and don’t look healthy so you assume everyone who’s vegetarian must be unhealthy too. I just walked by a homeless man talking to himself and smelling of alcohol. That must mean most homeless people are crazy and drunks, right?
I know lots of people who have been vegan (strictly vegetarian) for most of there lives. Some look extremely healthy, some are bit overweight, and some look way too thin. I know lots of people who have eaten “meat and potatoes” everyday for most of their lives. Some look extremely healthy, some are overweight, and some look way too thin.
Don’t make assumptions about people based on what they eat.
Ballmer could stand to lose more than a few pounds.
It just won’t be fair to the world if Steve leaves us, and we’re stuck with Gates and Ballmer. If a God exists with any mercy…..please, please.
I also remarked his voice was weak and he left a lot of the presentation to others. I hope he is OK but respect his privacy.
Henry Blodget is one SICK SICK bastard.
Jobs works harder than anyone, and this idiot calls it cancer?
I’d punch him in the face if I meet blodget.
Lance Armstrong looked thin when he won his 7th Tour de France. And that was after Cancer.
Why no concern over Ballmer’s bloated body?
If Steve had danced the developer’s jig like Monkey-Boy, would that have changed anything?
(“developers, developers – developers, developers – c’mon everybody!!)
“…but we know such a statement would make some of concerned Apple and Steve fans feel better,”
And of course making people feel better is the #1 job of all multi-national corporations…..give me a break!
Guys…pancreatic cancer is deadly and a very rapid killer. However, Steve lucked out and had a curable kind, not the deady kind. If it had recurred, he would be more than thin….he would be room temperature by now.
Doanworriboutdit.
Ain’t gonna speculate. Best wishes to you, Stevie.
He looks thin, perhaps too thin, but I wouldn’t say he looks sick.
I thought it was just me who thought Jobs looked a little light in the britches. I see others were concerned as well. That man can’t die, I need him to keep pushing his vision on his team to create even more great things.
Disappointed pundits need SOME way to drive the stock price down. Will someone please give Steve a sandwich.
I lost my Dad to cancer a year and a half ago. Steve looks remarkably similar to my dad while he was going thru chemo as far as his weight is concerned. Simply from a view of concern for another human being, Steve does not look healthy. I sincerely hope SJ is in good health.
how tall is Steve?
at 5-10″, the bmi index of a normal adult will result in a weight range of: approx 130 to 170 lbs with the high end being approx 30% more than the low range
wide range
It looks like cachexia to me. I’ve known two people who’ve had it, and I have witnessed its progression.
Cachexia is the name of a symptom in which a person wastes away. The body gradually loses its ability to absorb nutrients from food, so it consumes itself: body fat and then muscle–remember, the esophagus and the heart are muscles. When my father developed it, they tested him for every sort of cancer they could think of, because it is a symptom of cancer. However, in his case, it has a different cause.
My father has difficulty swallowing, and he is becoming weaker and weaker. He has difficulty standing and walking, and he can no longer lift his own body weight. (There are feathers that weigh more than him.) If he falls, he can’t get up. Just carrying a five-pound bag of sugar is an athletic feat for him. He now looks like a skeleton with skin. I don’t know how much longer he will remain ambulatory.
The next step could be organ failure.
I knew one other person who had cachexia as a part of post-polio syndrome. He eventually died because he didn’t have the strength to breathe. There was no mental impairment at all, and my father’s mind is still sharp enough to draw blood.
As I say, this looks like cachexia. Steve looks just like my father did a few months ago. It doesn’t mean he has cancer. It could be the consequence of something he had earlier in his life. I think this is why Steve has talked about his successors, and why he acted as an emcee more than a presenter at this WWDC.
Pardon me while I get horribly sad.
the macbook air is extremely thin too.
Short version: Steve is starving to death, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
People, people, Jobs is not a vegetarian!
From Wiki:
“Jobs is not a vegetarian or vegan as is often claimed. Although he does not eat mammalian meat or fowl, he eats fish from time to time. This is known as pescetarianism.[39]”
Personally, I think he could use some good ‘ol Alberta AAA beef.
I know that this is hard for us Apple fanatics to accept, but Steve’s health is his own concern and not ours. He doesn’t have to disclose anything to anyone at any time, period. If I had as many wierdo’s like us constantly commenting on my weight gain or loss, general health, etc, I probably wouldn’t be too generous on details either. But the fact remains: health issues are a totally private concern between his doctor and himself.
Regardless of what will happen to Steve jobs in the short or long term, we have to accept another thing: Apple WILL continue after Steve. The faster that we all come to accept the mortality of Steve and ourselves, the faster that we’ll accept this basic fact.
We could remain in denial, and believe that Steve is builidng the supercomputer of the future so that he can implant his sole into it, and we’ll all call walk around and him “Landrew”, but I just don’t think so.
Now that I think about it, many people in the northern rural regions of the United States as well as through Europe are also quite thin. It’s a difference of lifestyle that doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s got any kind of dangerous ailment. Also, somebody on Valleywag’s comment board rightfully posted that if CANCER had done that to him, then he wouldn’t be on stage talking and walking around. He’d be dead or close to it. That said, I think he’s lost a lot of the strong, aggressive authority that came with his physical stature–this is a real business phenomenon–and I wonder if any of it had to do with iPhone’s now-deadened special treatment from AT&T;. For example, some of my friends watching the keynote with me yesterday called him “nerdy,” or “wimpy,” whereas the Steve of two or three years ago would command quite a different aura.
Three weeks ago at a meeting I had with Apple, Steve looked a little thin but he was full of energy and acted fine. It’s not uncommon for Steve to drop a few pounds when he’s been traveling a lot, which he’s done a lot of over the past few months. Because Steve keeps such a rigid diet, when he travels he does not eat as he should, as it’s often impossible for him to match his diet with the locally available food stuffs. So, instead of comprising his diet he just does not eat. Steve’s weight loss should not be a surprise to anyone that has looked at how much and to how many different countries in the past few months that he’s been to. Now that the iPhone, carrier and distribution deals have been done for most countries (all the major markets anyway) he’ll start slowly gaining the 2 or 3 pounds back that he’s lost.
I lost 50 lbs. last year by exercising every day, and eating mostly “live” food. I was surprised at how many people asked if I was “alright?”
In the age of 30+ BMIs, being at the low end of the acceptable BMI scale (near 21) seems to many emaciated. To me it feels great.
You know what they say, “If you want to appear skinny, hang out with fat people.”
AMERICANS!
YOU ARE ALL NUTS!!!
Are you all so fat and obese that your entire perception of the human body has shifted so dramatically as a result?
Steve Jobs is thin – Yes he is even very thin!
So what!… Thinness is NOT an indicator of sickness, gringo morons!
Steve Jobs looks thin AND good, and if anything, he is unlikely to drop dead from heart failure anytime soon. And for all the speculative McJoe’s out there, please remember that thin people live longer (about 20 years longer) than overweight blubber infested Americanos.
You seem to have a national case of body dysmorphia going on there!
@Harvey,
Cachexia is a latin word to describe someone who is extremely thin– yes, in and of itself can describe a wasting process. You can describe someone as being cachectic in appearance. There are a vast array of medical issues that can include wasting of soft tissue. Anorexia or complications from HIV anyone? Using your radar diagnosis, I’ll send you a picture of my toe and you can diagnosis me too.
I wish SJ would opt for surgery, instead of his touchy feely hippie like approach. His 1% pancreatic cancer cell type is readily cured by surgery, and he is–IMHO– foolish not to go for it.
I know a lot about the subject. I have pancreatic cancer, the nasty kind. But mine was discovered before stage 4, so it was a primary only tumor, not metastatic. My oncologists are shocked that the disease has not spread for ten months now. I’d rather not go into more detail, but I actually have a significant chance of survival, unlike the stage 4 victims of this awful disease. But the pain is excruciating, even in my case.
Come on Steve, take the cure. Don’t allow yourself to die. APPL will sink like a lead weight in the ocean if that happens.
@ Gone Nuts
While I agree with you that everyone should have their privacy, as the CEO of a major multinational corporation he has a responsibility to share with his stock-holders his current health.
European John Doe:
We Americans are upside down when it comes to body image. I agree.
I can’t comment about all forms of cancer, or all forms of cancer treatment, but from my experience (my girlfriend had leukemia), cancer patients tend to be a bit chubby, not thin. At least in her case, as well as most of the patients I noticed at the hospital, they all experienced weight gain due to the steroids they were given to help boost their white blood cell count. The chemo they were given pretty much devastated the immune system, thus the need for steroids to help build it back up. The combination of steroids, and a lack of activity from lying in a bed all day, resulted in very noticeable weight gain, in some cases, as much as 30 or 40 pounds.
Of course, like I said, I don’t know how pancreatic cancer is treated. I don’t know if there are any similarities with how leukemia is treated.
I thought Scott Forstall did a great job…even had a touch of wryness that spoke of reserve, and class.
Better than Phil’s “just under the surface” rumblings of something like chastened hostility.
@ Apple Cider
I don’t think your taunt or attempt at humor is appropriate. I live with this 24 hours a day. I know what it looks like.
@LinuxGuyAndMacProdigalSon
i wish you all the best. i hope everything will be alright soon.
steve jobs had the surgery in september 2004 (if i remember it correct) after considering alternatives.
We go through this EVERY freakin’ year. “Steve looks sick”. Christ people leave the guy alone!
@ Harvey: I’m not attempting to belittle your condition, merely underscoring the fact that one can not make medical diagnoses simply based on a rather “thin” looking appearance.
@LinuxGuy…: Again, from Wiki: “After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, July 31, 2004 Jobs underwent surgery that successfully removed the tumor.”
Steve Jobs had surgery for cancer in 2004. In an E-mail message to employees during this period, he said he had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas but expects a full recovery.
Ludicrous speculation from the Medical Team here at MDN.
Glad to know that just like frickin’ doctor idiots the world over, you cant agree.
‘He’s finished”!
“He’s in great shape’!
“he’s got litho-chtizo-mania”!
“He’s a picture of health”!
He’s on a strict vegan diet, I imagine, and probably embraces the low-calorie diets that are popular for longevity.
More to the point, what right have we to speculate in such a crappy way?
He’s my frickin’ HERO! Leave the Steve Meister alone, you rats!
If it wasnt for Steve, you would all be under the control of BeastMaster Ballmer, the fat f**k of Microsh*t.
Plz correct if I’m wrong, but per his Stanford Speech and per news briefings at the time, there was concern that he had pancreatic cancer. However, I believe he said that after surgery, it turned out not to be cancer. There are many tumors and growths which occur in the pancreas, as elsewhere, but not all are cancers. There are many benign tumors as well. I don’t find any information as to what his true pathologic diagnosis was, but I believe it turned out that it wasn’t a cancer.
As for his thinness. Although he may not be purely vegan, he is not unusually thin.
Next time Steve won’t order the tomato sandwich the night before a keynote at the Moscone Center.
I completely and whole heartedly disagree.
I don’t believe that just because someone becomes CEO of a “large international company” that one loses their right to personal privacy (especially one’s health). Life is full of unavoidable risk and uncertaintly. No matter what insider information we think we have, we still don’t know the day we “expire” until presumably that time arrives.
I wish the best of health to Steve, everyone here, and hope that you all enjoy a long and fulfilling life.
Ghandi was thin as a rail and lived until the age of 78 – when he was assassinated. Not comparing him to Jobs, but if you think about it a lot of prominent people who lived a long time were on the thin side.
First, it is dangerous to say that a man’s health – his personal business – is inextricably tied to his professional business. Is that a standard you want to set? Stock options or not, Steve Jobs does not owe any explanations of such things. Considering the announcements yesterday, I’d say his ability to continue the progressive path of the company are fine. I do not want work extending it’s realm into my personal life, especially when there is no reason to question my performance.
Second, for the handful of vegetarian bashers out there – I am vegetarian, as are many of my friends. Nearing 40, people often mistake me for my early 20’s. I am in excellent condition and I live at an elevation of 7,000 feet, so any of you down there with such skewed thinking are welcome to come up here and try working out with me. If you think that vegetarian means sickly, then you know nothing about health and the human body, particularly the digestive system and the negative impacts of meat on it. I do not preach it – no veggie bumper stickers, thank you – because it’s a personal choice. And I most certainly do not look frail. So, please, refrain from sharing your ignorance. To quote Ron White – “The next time you have a thought… let it go.”
Let’s not forget that Steve is a Vegan Vegetarian. Most Vegans are extremely thin. Mr. Jobs, the only thing to watch for is Vitamin B12 levels. They can fall precipitously on a vegan diet.
However, I do understand the concern of everyone at this time.
Rickw.
Thin is the correct body shape. Our food has been modified for centuries in order to produce industrial workers requiring strength and stamina rather than speed and accuracy. Body mass index reflects this, the bottom end of the scale is about right, maybe too much.
Seeing as Cats are big with Apple at the moment I suggest looking at lions, not the ones in the zoo, those on the plains of Africa. They are the kings of their environment as man is in his. Lions are skinny buggers.
And for those with cancer concerns may I suggest researching Hoxsey, a very interesting story, takes a while to dig it all up.
There’s a lot of pressure on Steve at the moment, all those deals with telecoms companies for one, and does anyone like telecoms companies?
For Steve I wish, prosper and long live.
Everybody lies!
Steve Jobs is taking the thinnovation idea personnally (jokes).
Folks, it’s most likely that it he carries quite a load for the company during this iPhone 3G rollout, and we all benefit. It’s a combination of great pressure and fantastic possibilities he sees about all of this innovation.
“MDN Magic Word” = truth
Steve,
Hope you are well. Please absorb some major amounts of calories. Lots of shakes, intravenous drip….?
And get a subtle version of one of those Jean Luc Picard muscle suits to go under your black turtle neck.
Seriously hope (not pray, as I’m an atheist) that he’s got plenty of years at the helm, and yet while he’s at it, start outlining the succession strategy so one day soon-ish he can step back to being Chairman Steve and leave the day-to-day to Scott, Phil, Cook, and others.
Best of luck, Steve.
Addendum
I first saw this story on ‘The Street’ who’s motivations should be crystal clear. Any kind of FUD to throw at Apple, there will be more ‘concerns’ expressed by opposing vested interests who already have vested interest in most media.
Steeeeve, man!… is your wife putting you up to this??? If so, man, she’s a crank… get yourself off that freaky vegan rubbish A.S.A.P!! – get down to McDonald’s and get a few BigMac triple bacon cheese burgers down you now!
What is this – SteveJobsAir? Steve, we know you like it T-H-I-N, but you’ll be cutting wedding cakes next. It don’t suit you… NO, you don’t you look ‘super-sleek’ and modern… just 20 years older than you should. Listen to your loyal fans… if ‘her indoors’ is putting you up to this… she’s gotta go man!!
Fill Out.
mw ‘respect’
One the Blodgett story is IRRESPONSIBLE! It’s a way for him and his short buddies to drive down Apple’s share price.
Second, while Steve is decidedly thin, he did not look “frail”.
Third, if he had a pancreatic recurrence, he would already be gone. Recurrence is far more deadly and fast-acting than the original cancer.
Fourth, the only known way to increase life expectancy is to go on a restricted-calorie diet. Just look up any number of stories in the NYTs, or anything on resveratrol.
Fifth, did any of you watch PBS’ Frontier House series? Steve’s weight and appearance is the norm for your average frontier male 150 years ago, when people worked outdoors, and they were robust.
The bottom line is that the sky is falling type of people like Blodgett are just trying to drive down Apple’s stock.
I hope he’s got AppleCare.
Just kidding… no disrespect intended. He does look quite thin though. It looks like he should be eating more and working out.
I am vegan and I meet up with a group of vegans/vegetarians once per month. Most of us look very heathy. I might add that there are quite a few people I meet with that could stand to lose weight.
If you consume more calories than you burn then it is stored as fat (period). It doesn’t matter the source of the calorie.
Google vegan body building
Mabee CEOs of Publicly traded companies should be treated like the President of the US, and have a Physical every year that is disclosed to the public.
In any case Steve if you are reading this (as if), hope you are as healthy as an OX.
And we’re just now talking about this? I thought he looked alarmingly thin at the last keynote presentation in March, but no one made a comment back then. I was surprised that this obsertvation hasn’t been made before now. This is not new. He was thin in March as well.
I thought he looked thinner than ever this time around. He’s also shaven clean, which makes him look a little different than ‘usual’.
God Bless Steve Jobs and his Family! Thanks
have a look here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=765502503&play=1
he seems quiet healthy to me.
If each person here sends Steve a pint of ice cream we’ll fatten him up in no time. ; )
Anybody know what his favorite flavor is? : )
I bet he’s either a Ben & Jerry’s “Cherry Garcia” kinda guy or perhaps a fan of Coffee/Espresso based ice cream—you know, for those late nights thinking up something completely different.
” . . . for those late nights thinking up something completely different.”
I thought that was Monty Python.
SInce chemo generally tends to make hair fall out I think it’s safe to say he isn’t undergoing chemo. Since the surgery was considered successful I would also consider it safe to believe that’s not a problem now.
Basically I think he is just watching his food intake – I wish I could do the same and get a bit closer to his size!
Red meat is not bad for you, green fuzzy meat is.
Ron White said it best… “I didn’t climb to the top of the fuckin’ food chain to eat carrots.”
Start eating real food Steve… please.
The Dude abides
Vegan, vegetarian, pescetarian is rather a side issue. Quality is more important. Why not try the paleolithic diet (look it up – and beware the FUD which of course Mac users should be well practiced in doing anyways).
It is funny how many people complain/comment about the issues carrying around laptops that weight a pound or two more, add that much to the body weight and there’s no comment.
Don’t fret, eat more food then go get some exercise to get rid of it. Hell there’s a good profit in selling food AND in selling exercise machines, space, trainers etc. Come on people, be good consumers. Oh and buy some anti-indigestion tablets, pay for a heart by-pass, keep the shareholders happy.
1. He doesn’t eat like shit.
2. Dude probably did the Master Cleanse.
3. He’s probably in 500x better shape than most of us here.
4. He needs to wear clothes that fit.
After realizing how my totally thoughtless, shitty diet had a direct correlation to my mental state, I changed my diet, and lost some weight – what little I had to lose – in the process. I was amazed – not to mentioned irritated – when everyone pointed out how perilously thin I looked and asked me if I was okay and on and on and on… meanwhile, I had never felt better!
ROTFLMFAO! And, the Funniest Post of the Day award goes to Ampar!
You are truly a moron. It’s a food web and it’s not linear.
Steve Jobs one year ago pic
If Steve is too thin then this is your method of eating
@Ampar
Think different or thinking of something completely different. Both work! And Steve and I are the same age. I’m sure he watched Monty Python! : )
OBill-Wan Kenobi and MacRaven:
It may be anorexia. Probably linked to the nerves of running the whole great big Apple shop. Their shares are dodgy. They so really are. Then there’s the lack of a decent camera on the iPhone. Etc. I love Apple, but I feel sorry for anyone in there! It’s got so much pressure on it.
Also, I know loads of people who are that thin and perfectly healthy.
I really hope his cancer didn’t come back. It could be the combo of his diet and the whipple procedure he had. They basically replumb the digestive tract, he probably lost some intestine… My mom had the incurable kind, same procedure. She only made it 8 months.
All our bodies are dying – some at rates faster than others.
Steve Jobs has always seemed thin, since he was young, from photo’s I’ve seen. He seemed to put some weight on in the late 1990’s-early 2000’s. Maybe be decided to change his diet, especially since his Cancer, in 2003.
Just from the fact he was on stage, shows he isn’t gravely ill. He may be thin, but he seems strong
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know that this is hard for us Apple fanatics to accept, but Steve’s health is his own concern and not ours. He doesn’t have to disclose anything to anyone at any time, period. —Gone Nuts
I totally agree! Nobody’s damn business. Screw the shareholders. Apple’s success has made them rich. It does not give shareholders the right to pry into the private life of the man who makes it all possible.
@ “@ The Dude”
When you get off the rag, read it as a joke. Notice that it is quoted from comedian Ron White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_White). Humor, meant to be funny.
I do find it funny that you call me a moron when you cannot even detect blatant humor. Pot, meet kettle. I suppose I have given you a few rocks to throw in your glass house too… so I guess it is time for you to get to work.
The Dude abides.
Skinny or not, this isn’t the same happy, healthy Steve that released the first iMac a decade ago.
Steve’s seat at Apple has to be spectacularly stressful, but he’s aged half a lifetime in the last 10 years.
Yes, Apple, just an announcement confirming things either way…
First, it is dangerous to say that a man’s health – his personal business – is inextricably tied to his professional business. Is that a standard you want to set? Stock options or not, Steve Jobs does not owe any explanations of such things.
Woah, hold on here.
When a man is a company’s CEO, spokesman, persona, product-driver, and the person whose moves are micro-watched by an entire INDUSTRY, I would say that person’s ability to remain in his position would be considered rather important.
That said, I don’t expect Steve’s health file to be public. But it’d be nice to know, in general terms, the health of company officers & their ability to hold their positions. I.E. “CEO Smith’s annual checkup revealed no significant or pertinent issues”.
Nobody like surprises, and I’d hate to see the fallout of a key executive’s emergency retirement, because his health was “none of our business”.
i agree with gow.
only in the US would thin be considered sick. when are you bozos gonna realize that a relatively few inches of fat around your waist increases your risk of cardiovascular disease?
it’s could be stress, due to the high global expectations of a new iPhone. for your info, steve is no vegetarian. he’s a PESCETARIAN (include fish in diet for health purposes).
I agree with MacDailyNews. There are investors that are counting on Jobs and his vision. Without him… Apple wouldn’t exist today… I encourage you to write them at investor_relations@apple.com.
Seriously… their stiff upper lip (no further comment) is affecting their bottom line and my bottom line (as an investor). Some more information would be really helpful to all involved. Just a medical update, or a statement by his personal physician.
The VP for PR wouldn’t be liable if indeed he had a bug… (and if he also had a more major affliction which they chose not to disclose). Nothing happened as a result of the nondisclosure in 2003-4… Full disclosure obviously is not required.
Steve Jobs is a gift of God to the American economy. He’s survived pancreatic cancer for 5 years! His family must love him very much.
It’s not easy to digest food without most of one’s pancreas, so let’s off him only our fondest hopes and toast him to continue to live a long and happy life. Jobs is the Steven Spielberg of computers, let’s cease speculating about his personal health.