“Steve Jobs has stopped using his computer. He’s off curing himself of something he won’t name and in some manner we can’t know but I CAN tell you right now it doesn’t involve using his computer,” Robert X. Cringely writes for I, Cringley.
“A friend of mine has for years been one of Steve Jobs’ Internet chat buddies. And as such his chat client has – again for years – shown as Steve came online each day and remained there for hours and hours as you’d expect a Silicon Valley mogul to do. And it’s a trend that continued well past Jobs’ announcement that he was taking a six-month leave of absence to get well. But then Steve started logging-on less and less. And several weeks ago he stopped logging-on at all,” Cringely writes.
Cringely writes, “No big deal, right? He’s off the clock; Cook and Schiller are fighting for the tiller; Apple’s in good hands; who cares? Anyone cares who actually expects Steve Jobs to return to Apple.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: In the feedback to his article, after readers pointed out that all this proves is that Jobs stopped using iChat or changed his chat name, Cringely responded, “Yes, he might have changed his chat name after many years, he might have disowned my source, might have done any of a number of other things mentioned BUT HE DIDN’T. You think I don’t check these things out? I’ve had this for 10 days and wouldn’t have published on a Saturday except it took that long to confirm.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yearning for a slightly more credible source, with bated breath we await an update on Steve Jobs’ health from the Palo Alto Fraiche Yogurt counter person.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
