“On Monday morning, shortly before MacWorld 2009 — which, until he canceled, was scheduled to feature Jobs as keynote speaker — opened in San Francisco, the Apple CEO released an official statement about the ongoing weight loss that has left him gaunt and panicked his company’s investors,” Keim reports.
MacDailyNews Take: Incorrect. Steve Jobs was never, repeat never, scheduled to deliver the keynote presentation for Macworld Conference & Expo 2009. Period. There was no cancellation.
Keim continues, “His words set off an avalanche of speculation, ranging from knee-jerk skepticism — ”Hormone imbalance’? Please. Sorry, not buying it’ — to thoughtful analyses of his 2004 pancreatic tumor removal or possible thyroid disorders.”
“First is the hormone imbalance, suggesting an endocrine problem. Second is Jobs’ loss of protein. He doesn’t attribute this to loss by urination, which would suggest a plasma-cell cancer called multiple myeloma, or loss by defecation, which would implicate his pancreatic cancer history,” Keim speculates with abandon. “If Jobs’ weight loss were related to the latter, said Lustig, he would likely display other symptoms, including severe flushing and massive diarrhea, which have not yet been described.”
Keim reports, “The third thread is the ‘straightforward’ remedy for his ‘nutritional problem.’ According to Lustig, that conflicts with the rest of Jobs’ statement. “Endocrine problems are not nutritional, and vice versa,” he said.”
Keim reports, “‘There’s no way to put these threads together,’ said Lustig, though he refused to rule out a cancer-related complication. ‘It’s not possible to dismiss anything in terms of this,’ he said, and called speculation ‘very silly.’ Dong Chan and Monica Skarulis, endocrinologists at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, agreed with Lustig’s assessment of Jobs’ statement as insufficiently detailed to merit speculation. ‘I have no knowledge of his condition,’ said Chan, ‘and will not comment.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Thank God that somebody has some ethics, not to mention taste and humanity.
Full article – Think Before You Click™ – here.
MacDailyNews Take: The race to the bottom of the barrel is proceeding apace. Once again, the following Take from December 17, 2008 applies just as well today:
By SteveJack
Let’s face it: the way things are today, short of Jobs retiring, or God forbid, dropping dead, nothing is going to change the pattern of Steve Jobs health scares, regardless of whether they’re real, imagined, or invented manipulations intended to affect the price of Apple stock.
Jobs could walk on water this afternoon and some people would voice “concern” that he only accomplished it because he’s lost so much weight that he’s about to ascend into heaven.
There’s only so much Apple shareholders can take. An extremely well-positioned, successful company having its share price driven down artificially whenever some short seller desires to cry wolf, er… “gaunt” is not something serious, or even casual, investors welcome. Those who are charged with keeping order (SEC) in the markets are obviously incompetent, AWOL, or both. Perhaps, Jim Cramer and many others (see below for one example) are right in calling loudly for reinstatement of the uptick rule?
The chairman of the SEC [Christopher Cox] serves at the appointment of the president and has betrayed the public’s trust. If I were President today, I would fire him… Mismanagement and greed became the operating standard while regulators were asleep at the switch. The regulators were asleep, my friends, they were not working for you. [The SEC has allowed abusive short-selling, to turn] our markets into a casino. – Senator John McCain, September 18, 2008
In this current climate, with stock-price-affecting health “concerns,” real or not, that can only be alleviated via retirement or death, and in the absence of the uptick rule, has Steve Jobs become too much of a liability for Apple shareholders? With his “health” sitting there as ammunition to be used whenever the shorts desire to fire off a few rounds, can Steve Jobs remain as Apple CEO without the uptick rule in place?
We get email here. Some AAPL shareholders are not happy with what they consider to be obvious and uncontrolled manipulation.
In an attempt to achieve utter clarity, here’s the Either/Or statement: Either Steve Jobs has to go or the uptick rule has to return. Without one or the other, Apple shareholders are at the mercy of forces that have absolutely nothing to do the the company’s current and future performance. AAPL stock simply cannot be recommended, if its performance has little or nothing to do with the company’s actual results. Cancel or Allow?
SteveJack is a long-time Macintosh user, web designer, multimedia producer and a regular contributor to the MacDailyNews Opinion section.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers”Fred Mertz” and “James W.” for the heads up.]
Steve Jobs must have a PET scan of his entire body (from the soles of his feet up through and including every hair follicle he has left! Then he must publish on the web the raw data from the entire series of scans.
Steve Jobs must have a full blood work up of every possible kind with tests that will eliminate every known pathogen and detail every chemical agent in his blood. Again, he will have to publish the raw data (including traceability of the handling of the blood delineating the name of every person who was even in the same room with any given vial).
Steve Jobs must have a full set of EKGs, EEGs as well as MRIs and X-rays of his entire body. Yet again he should publish on the ‘net the full set of raw data from each one of these tests.
Steve Jobs must submit biopsy samples of all major organs: brain, heart, lungs, liver, pancreas, large & small intestines, kidneys, bladder, prostate, skin, major bones, etc., etc. Once again the raw data must be published on the ‘net (again, including traceability of the handling of the samples including the name of every person who was even in the same room with any given sample).
Then he must document his entire medical history — every headache, every hangnail, ever stubbed toe, every skinned knee, etc. This must then be followed by a thorough medical exam by not less than 3 each of doctors who are board certified internal medicine, board certified cancer specialists and board certified endocrinologists.
Then he must get the *entire* medical staff of the Mayo Clinic to review and certify every single piece of this data.
Finally, * * * ALL * * * of it must be reviewed and certified by the Surgeon General.
Then after all this is done…
He **MUST** do it again every three months!
Maybe THEN the press will start to believe he’s not on his death bed. (But knowing the press… I doubt it.)
I wish MDN would just delete this Storyline and Thread entirely…it only serves to stir the pot and further infringe on Mr. Jobs’ privacy, in my opinion.
@ChrissyOne
Happy New Year…Wish you Peace, Health, and Happiness!
Wired speculates about Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ urination, defecation, and possible ‘massive diarrhea’
That’s it. These idiot “news” sites HAVE hit bottom (no pun intended).
Really, who really wants to know about Steve gastrointestinal functions?
Absolutely disgusting.
Obsessive redesign of the battery… THE BATTERY rather than just add a little weight or thickness.
Steve Jobs is alive and well.
As for the stock… it’s a freaking bear market. Someday it won’t be (or they’ll be a wicked correction) and the shorts will find that no amount of rumoring will drive the stock down and the buying to cover will be just as exaggerated as the short selling was.
A guy in Germany just killed himself over his short position in Volkswagon. Shorts are much more vulnerable than longs. Longs can just hold.
Utterly pathetic. I guess Wired must be losing readers and is resorting to tabloid sensationalism.
Instead of showing compassion, the media is responding with cynical scorn for someone who has obviously suffered significant physical trauma and personal humiliation. I wish the same to the author of the Wired article. But I am not surprised to see articles like this – bitterness is the trademark of little men, not greatness.
I eagerly await the day when Steve shows up in public, stronger and in well-deserved improved health. His actions will be his eventual vindication.
Unless he’s stopped eating fish, last I knew Jobs was described as being a pescatarian, i.e. vegetarian who eats fish as well as eggs and cheese, not vegan. Would be much easier to get protein that way than being straight vegan where the sources of protein you choose to eat are limited to legumes such as beans and soy.
If the humanimal body is working normally, Haagen-Dazs ice cream puts on the pounds. Lots of pounds, fast.
It is healthier to be too thin rather than too fat. Of course being perfect is ideal
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“I’m now convinced. The internet is making us all dumber.”
well.. you anyways
Steve should simply take a break and spend some time in Collioure (France) where he should go on a anchovy diet at the Canpla restaurant or chez Jimmy in the foothills of the Canigou where he should ask for an omelette aux reponjous. Both have been known to cure many a disease, including conditions of spleen following sudden drops in stock values. 2 weeks there incognito and he will be a new man. I did, I am.
oh my god.. i just saw steve eating 2 crackers and man, he is now a huge fat ass…. woah