Yes Dear Leader’s health is his own business. But don’t have Apple making statements that his decision not to appear was “more about politics than his pancreas.” They have been taking lessons from Clinton. Okay he’s not sick from his pancreas, if I even believe that, but from a hormonal imbalance. Last time I checked hormonal imbalances weren’t “political” unless we are talking about a female politician.
So technical or not, as far as I am a concerned, Apple lied. I will not trust another word they say about Jobs’ health. And yes it remains his business, so they should say nothing rather than lie. I don’t give a rat’s ass about technically not lying. Rubbish.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7811857.stm
Corporate secrecy is one thing. Lying is another.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is being treated for a “hormone imbalance” but is staying on as the firm’s CEO.
In a statement, Jobs said he had been suffering from ill health for a number of months.
“I have been losing weight throughout 2008…doctors think they have found the cause: a hormone imbalance that has been robbing me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy,” said Jobs.
Rant over.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI think this post is missing a key part– the alleged apple lie. When did they lie? When did they ever say jobs was not presenting for political or health reasons? MWSF is the last apple keynote for strategic reasons and that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with politics or jobs health.
I think you need to find the quote that you believe has been contradicted for this post to make more sense….
Yo pocketronic, you know I am a zealous apple defender, but what have we heard over the past year? Katie Cotton: its just a common bug; at the iPod keynote earlier, implicitly everything is alright.
As far as the politics quote:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28265938
“I can tell you that sources inside the company tell me that Jobs’ decision was more about politics than his pancreas.”
Now… there are two definitions of lying. One is technicality. I don’t follow that one. I follow the good faith one. If my mom asked me if I snuck out last night with Gina and I know darned well the point wasn’t Gina but whether or not I snuck out, I could technically deny it. But I did sneak out.
Steve has been ill the past year. Everything Apple has said has deflected that. Under the technical definition, I am positive that they were vague enough to stay out of trouble. But I don’t work from technicalities. I work from good faith and trust.
But the bottom line is: Steve Jobs’ health, as long as he can perform his duties, isn’t our business. I wish Apple would say nothing about it. But next time they do, I won’t believe them blindly like I did this time.
I love apple, but if they are going to make an announcement, don’t focus on technicalities but on straight talk.
I am very sad Dear Leader is ill. I pray it is just a hormone imbalance and he will be back soon. I have reason to believe that we will soon see the post-Jobs era (not because he is going to die, nothing like that). That will be sad. But apple tell us.
So my post title can be amended depending upon one’s perspective. If you think “technical truth” that sidesteps the issue is okay, then no, apple did not lie, they just were not as forthcoming as we would like.
If you don’t like “technical truth” (I work with lawyers all day long, I know weasel words and technical truth well), then they lied.
Legally they didn’t. The law respects technicalities.
Even today’s press announcement was squirrely. It didn’t definitely say much. There was plenty of wiggle room.
I just don’t trust what they say on Jobs’ health, and I wish everyone would leave the man alone. I rarely post on this topic, and I likely will not again. This is his business and his family’s business. I just don’t think apple handled this properly. You know I am a fanatic and not a basher.
I hope Steve will forgive this rant. I am praying towards Cupertino right now. And I didn’t make a rush for the doors like I could have earlier today when I distracted the guard. I would have loved to have been tackled by apple guards.
Thanks for clarifying. Personally, I don’t credit a CNBC report based on a rumor (EG: An unnamed source) as being the Official Word Of Apple. Its possible that at the time they did think he just had a bug, but only later did he discover that it was more than that. That seems to be the official story, and it seems reasonable to me.
But I’m not trying to debate you, your faith is broken and I can see your perspective.
Thanks for clarifying!
I certainly could be wrong, but I have even more information that I will be writing on this. CNBC is a HUGE report. If it were wrong, Apple should have contradicted it officially and immediately. The “bug” story was over a year ago. No one has a “bug” that long. At WWDC they had an opportunity to correct it rather than make flippant jokes about Bloomberg’s error. And the “bug” was not from an unnamed source but from Katie Cotton herself.
Steve Jobs called the NYT himself. Apple has covered this up over and over and then screwed their fans for Macworld. Now there is word they are going to be at CES!
I think perhaps if you were one of the guys at IDG (I don’t work for IDG by the way and my only interest in that angle is as an IDG conference attendee and as becoming friendly with the real people behind IDG rather than corporate facelessness) you would not feel the same.
I spent thousands to go to Macworld. And all this time Apple was engaging in a cover-up. Okay, fine, once bitten twice shy. I don’t believe them, and it will be a long time before I believe them in the future. You don’t “change the world” by lying.
In upcoming pieces there are some things I will be defending Apple against, but this isn’t one of them.
Will you finally believe they lied if they told us that they “don’t need trade shows anymore” and then they show up at CES? They are a company that has forgotten their roots IMHO, and while the older fans might put up with it, the newer ones won’t. They are facing some stiff some competition right now from Dell and the like, and the RDF doesn’t work so well when it is wrapped in lies rather than salesmanship.
Looks like I was right.
http://vimeo.com/2830509
Denial or not, and whether people want to scream privacy or not, Apple has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders. Steve may have been in denial. I doubt his RDF kept everyone else from seeing this. An attorney where I work commented, and I agree, that I will not be surprised to see an SEC investigation into Apple’s public statements on this issue.
And boy did Goldman do an about-face. This will sound odd consider I do some news-writing as well, but don’t trust the news. We are being fed a load of crap.
I hope fervently for the third coming of Steve, but it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to see that this situation is at least as potentially life-threatening as the 2004 cancer. We need to stop fooling ourselves. With God’s grace, Steve will be back, but face it folks, we are all mortal, and I have felt for a while that he is potentially mortally ill. One huge consolation is that he doesn’t have to go to the cheap-ass doctors we do. If he can be healed medically, if it is possible, he will be healed. I bet he’s not such a big fan of socialized medicine now.
It appears theAppleBlog also agrees
http://theappleblog.com/2009/01/14/jobs-stepping-down-may-be-more-than-temporary/
And the best article yet
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28663654
Bloomberg has a very fair analysis:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=conews&sid=aZIf9jXBqp0Y
which also includes giving the benefit of the doubt.
I want to give all sides.
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