RadarOnline.com reports, “Steve Jobs – who is on another medical leave of absence from Apple, the company he co-founded and manages as its longtime CEO – is receiving treatment at a cancer clinic where Hollywood star Patrick Swayze was a patient in his final days.”
“RadarOnline.com has confirmed Jobs, 55, has been attending the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California, where Swayze sought radical chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer before his death in September, 2009,” RadarOnline.com reports. “The skeletal-looking Apple boss was photographed outside the clinic in images set to be published in the next edition of The National Enquirer.”
Full article here.
The Daily Mail reports, “Apple founder Steve Jobs has lost an alarming amount of weight and is reportedly sicker than has been previously admitted. The National Enquirer claims that the man behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad is stricken with pancreatic cancer and may have just six weeks to live.”
“The new photos show Mr Jobs looking painfully frail and weak, with his jeans and dark top hanging loosely on his 6ft 2in, rail-thin body,” The Daily Mail reports. “Mr Jobs weight is said to have dropped from a pre-cancer 175lb to 130lb now, according to The National Enquirer. His thinning hair is a sign of the effects of the advanced chemotherapy usually used to treat the disease.”
MacDailyNews Take: Jobs has been extremely thin for years now and so has his hair.
The Daily Mail reports, “The photos, which were taken on February 8, showed Mr Jobs going for breakfast with his wife Laurene Powell before heading to the Stanford Cancer Centre in California. Dr Gabe Mirkin, a physician with 40 years’ experience, said: ‘He is terminal. What you are seeing is extreme muscle wasting from calorie depravation, most likely caused by cancer. He has no muscle left in his buttocks, which is the last place to go. He definitely appears to be in the terminal stages of his life from these photos. I would be surprised if he weighed more than 130lb.’ Critical care physician Dr Samuel Jacobson also told the Enquirer: ‘Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks.'”
MacDailyNews Take: To us, Jobs looks the same as he did last year and, for that matter, the year before that:
The Daily Mail reports, “The Apple CEO, who is worth $6 billion, is putting up an amazingly brave battle and even did a full day’s work on February 7, the day before he went to the Cancer Centre. He is determined to continue with plans to build a new $8 million home after finally winning permission to demolish his home in Woodside, California, following a ten-year battle with preservationists.”
Read more in the full article here.
Leander Kahney reports for Cult of Mac, “Apple’s stock is taking a hit on fresh rumors that Steve Jobs has only a few weeks to live. Apple stock is currently down about three points in after-hours trading. It’s likely to take a big hit tomorrow when the markets reopen. The stock dropped a few points last week on rumors that Jobs was in hospital.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Getting “doctors” who have likely never even set eyes on the actual Steve Jobs to peruse grainy photos of him and proclaim diagnoses is ridiculous and rather deplorable.
As always, regardless of the veracity of these recent reports, our thoughts an prayers are with Mr. Jobs. Get well soon!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
God bless the man and his family because no one should leave in this way! When your time comes, you should be finished with your work and have made peace with yourself.
The SEC should investigate these news organizaions, reporting something like this could be considered stock manipulation.
All the best to Steve Jobs and his family. To hell with the ghouls hovering around him like vultures. This society has produced some sick bastards.
Amen to that! Steve, you are in my thoughts.
Sadly, cancer is what my mother passed from. She was in treatment, when it was diagnosed to spread here, so they started treating there and then would finish up the primary area, but then it was diagnosed to spread here, so they started treating there, then the second there, then the primary area. The doctors said the cancer had metastasized. She passed six weeks from the start of her treatment.
I hope Steve’s cancer, if returned, hasn’t metastasized and the treatment is successful. Well wishes for you Steve. In our thoughts and prayers.
I live near there and it’s the Stanford Cancer Center (with an ee-ar at the end). God, when will the provincial British press stop respelling American words? The American press usually spells it “centre” if that’s the way it’s spelled (or spellt) overseas. Sheesh.
Provincial British press?. Trying to understand your use of the word provincial – as in it is the paper of a sub capital in the UK? – It isn’t, it is a national right wing newspaper with a circulation of about a million, Daily Mail readers are generally despised by the rest of the population for being wildly out of touch, sensationalist and for relentless attacks on the NHS. It is no surprise to see it re-use an American article to fill space on what must presumably have been a slow news day.
However I suspect your use of provincial is a tad more derogatory than that, as in Britain is a sub-capital or a province of the USA. Which is generally the superiority complex attitude that keeps giving American’s unfairly a bad name and gets people quite heated and angry toward your nation.
The British press has always spelt words in Traditional English rather than US English when used in an American context because strangely enough the audience they are writing for is British not American. It was very much World Trade Centre not Center in most reports on 9/11 (which actually made no sense to us as we write it 11/9, lucky for you our atrocity happened on 7/7 hey).
Having read many many American news articles I rarely see the British spelling used by Americans when writing about one of our institutions and we have had to endure some awful words creep into our culture from yours “AWESOME”. Personally the overuse and misuse of the word “period” annoys me a little.
Steve is supposed to meet with Obama tomorrow along with Eric and Zuck and others.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-to-meet-with-president-obama-thursday-in-san-francisco.html
if he doesn’t show then it will add to the negative rumors of his health. If he does show, then a photo shot of all of them could put this rumors to rest
Good one
So you pronounce it SEN-TREE over there?
Over there (and up north, here in Canuckistan) we can at least pronounce the word “lieutenant” correctly, though 😉
The Jobs and Ive picture looks like a slice of the Abbey Road album cover.
Best wishes, Steve!
“leff ten ant” ??? Where in ‘ell do you get an f-ing eff sound out of lieu? In France the pronounce it as it’s spelled. Countries north of France pronounce it “lowt-nant”. Only in England to they pronounce the name “Yacht-Harbour” as “yore” or Saint John’s as “sin-jin’s”
What English dialect is that then my friend?, If I try Scottish or speak in Shakespeare’s English I can achieve close.
Are you even aware that there are many different dialects in England?, or do you think we all speak like the Queen or Dick Van Dyke (ala Mary Poppins)
In which dialect in England do they pronounce it “yore” or “sin jins”?, my Scottish friend can come close and I can in Shakespeare English but neither are modern day English.
You seem to think that we all stereotypically speak like the Queen or Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins and not appreciate that there are many many regional dialects throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. You also seem to think England is Britain, a mistake many Americans bafflingly make.
I would suggest you all google “learn yasel geordie” if you want a confusing yet amazing regional dialect from over here.
Get well Steve.
Hey MDN. I made diagnoses of Soviet leaders using known intelligence and fuzzy photos. It’s not that hard, but then again, you barely know anything about computers let alone medical diagnostics.
Vultures grasping at straws.
Dr. Samuel Jacobson really takes the cake, though. Has this joker never seen pants before? Because you wear a pair that’s as little as 1 or 2 sizes too big, your ass is dissapearing. It doesn’t matter how healthy you are. See Steve Job’s stocky buddy in white there? Oh my god, look! He doesn’t have an ass! He’s completely flat, what you are seeing is extreme muscle wasting from calorie depravation, most likely caused by cancer. He has no muscle left in his buttocks, which is the last place to go. He definitely appears to be in the terminal stages of his life from these photos!!
Or, oh wait, maybe it’s just because he doesn’t want to look like a jackass wearing skintight rockstar pants so buys ones that are a bit oversized… No, no, that’s too far-fetched. He must be dying of cancer, that’s it.
You know, I wonder what Dr. Samuel McQuack… Sorry, Jacobson’s thoughts are on ethnicities where one of the fairly common bodytypes is flat-assed. Sheesh, half the babes on Japanese porn sites must have terminal cancer and only six weeks to live. Poor things… If only that wasn’t the most likely explanation, but alas.
(The irony of all this? If there’s one person who’s going to make sure Apple keeps firing on all cylinders after Steve Jobs is gone, it’s Steve Jobs. He excels at team-building and has his mind firmly planted in the future. He’s probably been working on a succession plan since before he had any idea he had cancer. If he choked on a ham sandwich and died tomorrow, the stock would take a dive, but I doubt Apple itself would falter much if at all. These people waiting with baited breath for him to die – if it happens, I think the payoff will leave them sorely dissapointed.)
The “stocky buddy” may be Jonny Ive.
so with this story the daily news is already penning am obituary???
It’s unfortunate that an attempt at credibility for mcarb stories normally are scribed from the Murdoch press…
But for you lot to scratch a story like his… Unfortunately u just lost my rss subscription..
i thought Mac news and other web site alway powwow the good deeds of Apple retaining privacy of the individual yet here we have a splash from the very same proponents propagating the invasion of a mans privacy…. See the picture boys?
Tacky!
That car in the photo is not Steve’s car.
It is neither a Merc nor a Prius.
The car looks as if it is wrapped in cling film.
In addition the Enquirer is not exactly a reliable source.
Let’s wait for the dinner with POTUS to form an opinion.
If the share hits a low, buy.
Be courageous! Yet, Steve, you’ve been there before… therefor, You know you need not to fear.
Enquirer is about as good a news source as consumer reports is about the iPhone 4 with AT&T. Known for picture alterations to get a dramatic photo is the Enquirer’s specialty.
Why are there pictures so bad in quality. It looks like it came from a one megapixel toy camera!
The Daily Mail never misses an opportunity to have a go at Apple.
Best wishes and healing thoughts for you Steve and family!
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs
Get well soon buddy. X
The Daily Mail is regarded as a joke by most Brits. They routinely publish articles on many subjects that are sensationalist but have no worthwhile basis.
As has previously been mentioned, they are always very hostile to Apple and never miss an opportunity to print something negative about Apple.
Both very true. They feel that Apple is style over substance which is odd as they themselves portray themselves as a “quality paper” and yet really act in a cheapshot sensationalist manner.
The reason they get away with it is because sensationalism sells which is sad indictment on the state of both our societies.
Everyone should know that any article in a paper about Steve Jobs is going to be 99% bad news. How many new articles do you see or even news channels do you hear report good news?? The only good news they report is right after they say something like… “family of 10 collapse outside of burning building while set ablaze being stomped on by people to put out the fire” Good news! ambulance got there quickly to get them to the hospital.
Media makes money on bad news and drama. This is why you see crotch shots and sex scandal news about celebrities.
I hope steve is well.. and the SEC should investigate the enquirer for this. Premarket is down almost $5 from this crap. And of all people this site should know better than to post this… Yes we know its related to Apple but seriously!! I’m certain they own stock in Apple as well, so why spread more of the FUD to drive it down.. unless they are short selling too?
People, remember where these pictures and article is coming from – THE NATIONAL ENQUIRE. You know, the same publication that reports seeing two headed monsters and UFOs.
Just another “close to death” article to sell papers.