As my readers will remember, I first posted an article titled “apple lied,” and then posted a follow-up basically retracting the “lie” accusation but reiterating that I had suspicions, but suspicions are notoriously wrong a great deal of the time and not enough basis to accuse anyone of lying. So I have been following this issue on other blogs since then and have come away basically disgusted with nearly the whole lot with several exceptions.
Writers, no you don’t have to report on every Steve Jobs rumour; would it kill you to have some class and pass it by? Do you realize that you may have some moral culpability if he worsens as stress is not particularly conducive to healing? Or do you not care? Anyone who has been the target of extended gossip knows the incredible amount of stress that can put on a person. Some writers are more pugnacious than others; other have warped logic; others have an incredibly warped sense of “truth” and decency. Calling them vultures is insulting to vultures.
Some examples (the order is not significant):
Seth Weintraub at Computerworld asks Why Does Apple Treat Steve Jobs’ Health Like a New Product
Some anonymous tipster called Valleywag today with the news that Steve Jobs was getting surgery at Stanford hospital in Palo Alto.
(Update – SAI says he was in Apple meetings all day – it’s Monday after all). It probably is a false rumor but I have discovered a truth [dizzle: where did you discover this truth Seth? In a pile of dog stool? I wish as a professional writer that you would discover the proper use of commas rather than trying to peek up Steve's anus]. The reason why Steve Jobs’ health gets followed intensely by the media is because Apple treats it exactly like they treat new products. Whether it is intentional or not, they’ve been building up a steady stream of hype for the past year.
Any number of companies would have denied Jobs was in the hospital plainly in this instance or, if it were true, would have disclosed it months ago. Apple? No comment.
So how does an Apple treat its products/Steve Jobs health similarly?
First let me vomit in your honour for your comparison of a human being with gadgets. Let me make it a double for your insinuation that perhaps they are intentionally desiring these rumours to abound. Shame on you. Gosh that is filth.
I can’t even believe that something so vacuous was written at a reputable site (even though said site has falsely reported on Psystar and has yet to correct their false reporting). How about this answer Seth; because neither Apple’s upcoming products nor Steve’s private matters (or private parts) are any of your business. Who are you? That article was just really low, and you don’t usually write like that and wallow in the slime. There are certain required disclosures pursuant to the SEC, and that is it. You don’t have any legal right to ask for anything further; and all legalities aside it is just indecent to keep going on like that. Why does Apple run their company the way they do? Read slowly, because apparently this is a very difficult concept for you to grasp. Ready?
Because they want to. It is not your company. No one is forcing you to invest in them (if you do). I think their steadfast position to refuse to comment on rumours (translation: gossip) is admirable. I couldn’t do it. I would want to correct any falsehood, which of course would just cause another round of carrion-circling contests. Worry about what is required by law and keep your head out of Jobs’ rear, ‘kay? Lyons is feeling a bit crowded up in there.
Continuing:
Then things start getting real. Press releases “I have a hormone imbalance,” “I am sicker than I thought.”
Any proof Seth that there is any untruth there? No.
Then the final unveiling. Steve Jobs says he’s taking the first half of 2009 off because of his sickness.
Any proof of anything nefarious there Seth? No. Is “proof before accusation” such a novel idea?
All of the rumors that Apple created by not being straight are proved to be correct. Now no one knows what to believe. Do you believe the rumor mill or do you believe the PR machine?
You just jumped from a couple of examples that prove no such thing. And to say “all such rumours,” well that would include the Stanford Hospital visit you earlier mentioned. Which is it Seth? Where is your proof of intentional deception? Have you sent it to the SEC?
What else is Apple hiding? Everyone wants to know.
What passive aggressive CRAP. What else? When did you last beat your wife? That is exactly the same kind of question you are asking. It is begging the question of the worst sort and assuming your conclusion without proper support. This is journalism?
And poo on you once again for the way you compared the events leading up to Steve’s leave of absence to a product launch. ICK!
Oh and about that liver rumour, MacDailyNews snarks it appropriately (I love MacDailyNews):
MacDailyNews Take: Actually, for those who are interested in reality, what Bloomberg’s trio of vultures, Connie Guglielmo, John Lauerman and Dina Bass, reported on January 16, 2009 was, “Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.” Guglielmo, Lauerman and Bass then quoted one Steven Brower, professor and chairman of surgery at Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia, as stating, “Neuroendocrine tumors that originate in the pancreas, as Jobs’s did, often spread to the liver. One option doctors have in these cases is to perform a liver transplant.”
Guglielmo, Lauerman and Bass also mentioned in the same article that “Brower hasn’t treated Jobs and doesn’t know details of his condition.” Therefore, Jobs “might have liver cancer” according to a doctor who “hasn’t treated Jobs and doesn’t know details of his condition.” By the way, back in August, you might remember, Bloomberg News mistakenly ran Steve Jobs’ obituary.
Steve is one talented guy. Apparently while getting a liver transplant he is also at the office.
Why don’t you guys just shut up and stop stalking the guy? Why would he be at the office? Well in a comment at the above post, it was astutely noted that, “Today is Monday and at Apple, Monday is meeting day, at least with the executive team.”
I concur with the Tech Crunch:
Perhaps it’s because I’m stuck in a Munich hotel with the flu, but this most recent round of rumors about Steve Jobs undergoing surgery today is annoying me more than normal. The entire report is based on something someone heard someone else say at a party. That kind of stuff is fine when it’s a funding rumor and the flimsiness of it is disclosed. But we’re talking about someone’s very personal life here – someone who has repeatedly requested privacy. The fact that CNET, taking a few moments away from their Pulitzer Prize winning effort to determine the most hated person on the Internet, jumped on this so eagerly is particularly disappointing. Our own source, who is significantly more believable than some person at some party, says Jobs is in the office today in meetings and most definitely not undergoing surgery. Does that mean he might go under the knife tomorrow instead? Do we really need to know?Let Steve Jobs do his job and live his life. Just because you can write a story doesn’t mean you have to.
Especially the last sentence, a concept which seems to be unknown to many Internet “journalists.”
The bottom line is that the SEC is looking into these issues. That is their business; though I suspect the only reason they got involved is due to the carnal body-chasing reporting. Gossip is gossip. Didn’t there used to be a time when reputable sources didn’t pass along unverified rumours that have the capacity to cause great harm? Where is the journalistic integrity? Yes, I hold bloggers to some basic principles of integrity; if not journalistic integrity, then basic human decency.
Frankly the SEC needs to be looking more into those sites publishing flimsy rumours; they are costing stockholders money. And to head off the inevitable “how can you write about leaving Jobs alone when your article is mentioning his health!” No, my article is dealing with the writers. I must quote them to represent them.
Now this is all in addition to the fact that the SEC’s investigation isn’t free from the smell of fish.
“The SEC’s investigation is the latest in a long history not only of incompetence, but of connivance with Department of Justice prosecutors. The absence of a comprehensive definition of “fraud” has enabled the SEC to harass, and the DOJ to prosecute, businessmen who engage in seemingly normal professional behavior. Such investigations and prosecutions — for “securities fraud” as well as the equally malleable “mail fraud” and “wire fraud” — have become the hallmark of prosecutorial juggernauts since the mid-1980s. The same technique, based upon an absence of clear definitions, is used against a vast array of people in other fields, from accountants to artists,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
As it stands the SEC will continue on with their investigation, and Apple will need to somehow prove that they did not withhold material information from investors and shareholders.”
From The Wall Street Journal, The SEC Should Leave Steve Jobs Alone
Even executives deserve some privacy:
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Apple committed securities fraud by failing to inform the public about CEO Steve Jobs’s health. This investigation exemplifies how the agency has run amok.
During all of this, Apple’s share price swung wildly with each rumor and bit of news. After the announcement of his leave, the company refused to be more specific about his health. Mr. Jobs met persistent inquiries with a snippy, “Why don’t you guys leave me alone? Why is this important?”
It was important, of course, to those who had invested in Apple precisely because of Mr. Jobs. His health was surely material information for investors. And under federal securities laws, it is a serious felony — securities fraud — for corporate officials to disseminate false material information, or to fail to disclose true material information related to the company’s financial prospects. But while the legal meaning of “materiality” has long been the subject of dispute and little regulatory definition, it should not dictate that corporate officers have no right to any privacy.
Yet when the severity of Mr. Jobs’s health began to leak, the SEC — whose reputation has suffered mightily in recent months due to Wall Street’s cratering and the Madoff scandal — jumped in to commence a review of the apparently incomplete disclosures.
From MacNewsDaily, SEC’s inquiry is rotten to core; Apple being penalized for success?
So wait, it’s the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into Apple’s disclosure of Steven Jobs’ illness? Is this the same brilliant SEC that refused to regulate hedge funds, and could not even figure out that Bernard Madoff was not executing any trades? This after his credibility was challenged by Barron’s in 2001,” Garland Pollard writes for BrandlandUSA. “Is this the same SEC that watched over the complete dissolution and bankruptcy of all of Wall Street?
“It is interesting that two of the most interesting and innovative business leaders of recent memory, Steven Jobs and Martha Stewart of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, have been the subject of SEC scrutiny. This all came at a time when all of Wall Street went bankrupt because of gross corruption,” Pollard writes.
Pollard writes, “It seems like Apple is being penalized for being successful. If Apple was not doing well, all of this wouldn’t be an issue.”
I have heard various objections that all center upon the theme: too bad, so sad, he chose to be a celebrity, so he waived his right to privacy. Nonsense. First, he didn’t choose to be a celebrity. There is every indication that Steve intensely dislikes the hero-worship that is directed towards him, and he certainly doesn’t encourage it. Outside of appearances at KeyNotes and some Apple events, he lives a pretty private and reclusive life. Businessmen do not bank on being “celebrities.”
So long as Mr. Jobs answers “yes” when the board of directors asks him “can you still perform your duties?” then he has disclosed to them all he needs to. And sure enough, when he felt that answer had to change to “no” then he let them know and stepped away from the job. Exactly like he should have.
And guess what? He didn’t need a hundred infantile bloggers speculating on his every possible diagnosis to reach this decision. So why the level of scrutiny? Why can’t people just let the man be? After all, he isn’t a celebrity, he is just a business man. So what compels bloggers to be so cruel?
Lest we forget, Steve Jobs isn’t really a celebrity. Oh, the tech press has made him into one, but of his own violition he actively shuns the spotlight. Think for a second, other than his keynote presentations, when do we ever see him in front of a camera? He doesn’t go on drunken joyrides that make the news. He doesn’t marry strippers in Vegas only to be divorced days later. He has no stubstance abuse problems nor is he wildly eccentric. He doesn’t even have a big name charity that he presides over.
He is just a highly successful, very private business man who wishes to run his company and be left alone. And yet, apparently his biggest fans won’t grant him the peace to face his illness in a dignified manner. And this disgusts me.
It disgusts me too.
Even people who are legitimate celebrities deserve some basic level of privacy, and I think that would include the inner workings of their digestive track. Here is a good ground rule: if the questions come anywhere remotely near someone’s intestines, you are in inappropriate territory unless you are his proctologist.
Now perhaps Dan Lyons might qualify, for although he is not a proctologist, he certainly is an orifice.
(and to Newsweek, though I bet you could give a rat’s turd, as long as you have this abominable man on staff, I will do my best to avoid supporting you or your advertisers, and if I can, go out of my way to actively oppose you)
For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn’t doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months.
Still bitter that you lost your fifteen minutes of fame as Fake Steve Jobs? Let me guess. This was reverse psychology on Apple’s part. In order to create a charade that Steve was absolutely normal, they have him appear in public “looking terribly ill.” Where’s your brain man? Oh yeah, you’re sitting on it.
A lot of us feel uneasy about prying into someone’s health
Who’s the “us” Dan? You certainly don’t feel uneasy at all. Hell hath no fury like a man-crush scorned.
But in this case the media went beyond just ignoring the story and actually helped Apple tamp down the story, which kept bubbling up, usually on blogs.
Proof Dan? And have you presented this proof to the SEC, and are you willing to testify against the “us” you refer to? No you won’t you big-mouthed coward.
On Wednesday night I went on CNBC and was obnoxious enough to point out, on the air, that CNBC itself had been put into the latter camp by a Silicon Valley bureau chief who had appointed himself the official defender of Steve Jobs and Apple.
Ahhh, you mean just like you said I was an enabler of Steve Jobs’ bad behaviour not even understanding that this blog’s name was satire? Gotcha. And that this site was “devoted” to bashing you? Umm, does your mirror smudge when you French kiss your reflection? Obsess much?
Worse yet, in December, when one blog in the Valley reported that Jobs had canceled his annual Macworld keynote because “Steve’s health is rapidly declining,” this reporter went out of his way to attack that outlet and refute its report, both on air and in print. The CNBC guy claimed he had sources deep inside Apple who were telling him that Jobs was healthy. “Apple’s Jobs is (Still) Fine,” was his headline on the CNBC Web site.
Here is one place where Dan has a minor point. That headline was misleading, but Dan exploits it. The CNBC guy said that Steve’s health was not an issue in the Macworld decision. Don’t let context get in way your Dan. You never have before. Here is what CNBC said in the article:
I spoke to Apple after these headlines crossed and the company, which officially doesn’t comment on rumors, reiterated the reasons it offered two weeks ago: Apple was pulling out of Macworld because the company didn’t see the need to continue its investment in the expo, which included Steve Jobs’ keynote.
I was told this morning (Tuesday) that nothing has changed since then. The same reasons apply today that applied two weeks ago.
Back to lyin’ Lyons:
Turns out, however, that the blog—a gadget site called Gizmodo—was right, and the CNBC guy was wrong.
Dan, sorry, I am way beyond giving you any benefit of the doubt and think you are just an out and out liar. Where is the proof that Gizmodo was right? They claimed that Steve’s health was the reason for the Macworld decision. There has been NO PROOF OF THAT so far. Now there may be some that turns up later, but as of right now, no Gizmodo WAS NOT RIGHT.
The fact is, in the eyes of the media, Apple is the corporate equivalent of Barack Obama—a company that can do no wrong. Even in Silicon Valley, where much of the press corps are pretty much glorified cheerleaders (think of all those slobbering cover stories about the Google guys) Apple’s kid-gloves treatment stands out. Reporters don’t just overlook Apple’s faults; they’ll actually apologize for them, or rationalize them away. Ever seen reporters clapping and cheering at a press conference? Happens all the time at Apple events.
But you are oh-so-much-better? I sure hope you are the most-hated person in your “industry” for all your self-serving slobber. Let’s see Dan, I was at Macworld, and I didn’t see any reporters clapping and cheering? Your sharp reporting skillz missed the fact that IDG lost control of seating at Macworld, and many non-press KeyNote people, including myself, sat in the press section. Secondly, you are purposefully obfuscating. At “press events,” there are two distinctly different kinds of press, and you know it. Some of the “press” are in fact unabashed Apple fan blogs, not this great conspiracy that you are alleging. Damn you make me sick.
Jobs is famous for what Apple watchers call his “reality distortion field”—that is, his ability to convince people that the world is one way when it’s really another. The last six months have been the most outrageous example of the reality distortion field I’ve ever seen. Anyone with half a brain and pair of eyes could look at Steve Jobs last June and know that this was not a healthy 53-year-old man
Dan is famous for his orifice suckage field. He just contradicted himself. Explain again Dan how Apple covered this up in plain site that anyone with half a brain (which must be true, since you noticed) could see?
Now Apple finally has copped to the truth. Jobs is taking a leave of absence related to his health. This news came only nine days after Jobs put out a ridiculous open letter claiming he has a “hormone imbalance” that would be easily treated.
You are a dishonest bastard. Why am I so pissed? Because you shoot off your mouth to glorify your own ego. Let me tell you a story dear Dan. My mother died of cancer. For months she wasn’t looking or feeling so well. About two weeks before she went into the hospital at which she died, she was diagnosed with an imbalance that was easily treated. She even started feeling better after taking the pills. But, medicine is not always right and is a lot of guesswork, and it turns out that her illness was much more serious than thought. If you would have said to me that her statement to me of an imbalance two weeks before going to her deathbed was ridiculous I would have punched you in the face. I wasn’t a Christian then, I would have kicked your tail till next Tuesday. You are a sick, disgusting man. I hope you get festering boils for a week. (Since you O King of Satire don’t get it when you see it, the boils comment was sarcasm before you start screaming like a stuck pig that I called down curses on you or something.)
You are, to them, nothing more than a useful idiot.
While you are just a useless idiot.
I can’t take any more. Go to the link to read his spewage.
From Edible Apple, Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?! Pt. III
Three cheers for Lyons, the nations foremost leader in all things class! And a round of Boo’s for Steve Jobs, for having the audacity to stay on as Apple CEO when Dan Lyons clearly wants him to go.
If anyone has any idea why Lyons has a strong dislike of Jobs, please fill us in in the comments.
And lastly, the question must be asked – Dan Lyons gets paid to write for Newsweek?!!
And RoughlyDrafted on Lyons the Fake:
The Fake now insists that he halted his Fake Steve Jobs column out of respect for Jobs’ health condition, not because his fifteen minutes of fame (and corporate sponsorship) had been exhausted. At the same time, he continues his speculative autopsy of Jobs in the role of a “journalist,” desperately trying to find ways to profit from lurid stabs into Jobs’ personal life before the man can recover. Most recently, the Fake has instigated a campaign to vilify Jobs for expressing too much optimism about his own health, and subsequently taking a break to focus on recovery after finding it necessary to do so.
The Fake has styled himself as a fearless whistleblower for calling Apple’s PR team “liars” and denouncing Jobs’ attempts to recover faster than his condition allowed, writing “the last six months have been the most outrageous example of the reality distortion field I’ve ever seen.” Outrageous, really? When members of the press make such ridiculous accusations about nothing, it only serves to erase the credibility and impact of the media when it says something important.
Well remember, if it bleeds, it leads.
Now Gizmodo’s Brian Lam wrote a disgusting piece, but later realized he was wrong, and wrote an apology. Although the language is a bit blue, I honour his intentions and applaud his integrity to come out and apologize like a man to stick up for what is right.
I want to apologize to everyone who knows Steve, everyone who’s known anyone who’s been sick that’s been covered in the press, and my parents, who are probably ashamed I’m tracking a man’s health so rabidly at work, and raised me to be better than some journalist/vulture d***head.
I’d like to apologize to Steve. I met him once, and, uh, I think he complimented me only to make a snipe at Engadget, but he was very nice while using me to smite his enemies. Don’t get me wrong: I have to do my job as long as I work here. But when someone is nice to you, personally, it’s a terrible thing to later write stories hypothesizing his death is imminent. The truth of his actual state of health really is impossible to divine, no matter how many talking head doctors I speak with or statistics I check. That’s the difference between analysis and fact, which for some reason, a lot of people have no ability to separate. But this is not about the facts or the stock or the reporting or the truth. It’s about the f****** sentiment and it’s about manners and treating people well when they’ve been good to you. And Steve, like many other of the founders of this industry, has been very good to us.
Too bad the rest of Gizmodo doesn’t follow his lead. I am specifically speaking of one Jesus Diaz speaking on the SEC Investigation, and it makes me sick that he bears the name of my Saviour.
I will repeat what I commented there:
Oh please. Get your facts rights. Where is your proof that Jobs “admitted” something in the intervening week? Oh no it isn’t possible that within the week, the doctors found something much more serious, which is exactly what happened with my mom you insensitive tools. You have no facts at all to back that up and until then it is libel. With Goldman, that is something that should be looked into and I look forward to hearing what the SEC finds out. Lastly, again, HE NEVER STEPPED DOWN AS CEO. Please point to where he did.
Remember Diaz’ original headline: Steve Jobs’ Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for Macworld Cancellation
And opening:
According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs’ keynote cancellation.
No proof. There might be some that will be discovered, but until then, this is false unless people are now guilty until proven innocent.
Here is Silicon Valley Insider for more sickening tripe:
Then, when Jobs issued a statement essentially admitting he was skipping the Macworld keynote due to his health — “A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority” —
That statement did not admit any such thing. That is something that SVI imported into the statement. It is not said. If SVI wants to hyperliteralize the statement, then how can they explain that a few weeks before Steve didn’t immediately take a leave if reversing it was to be his #1 priority? Oh, I see. It is only Macworld, and not the stress of managing Apple that would keep it from being a #1 priority.
This is journalism? Well then journalism sucks worse than politics.
Diaz on Gizmodo says in Confirmed: Steve Jobs Prioritizes Health Above Macworld:
Dear Apple Community,
For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.
Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.
I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.
As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.
Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause — a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.
The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.
I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.
So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.
Steve
Our source was right that a big part of the reason why Steve Jobs is not doing the Macworld 2009 keynote is his health. The letter above states that he’s putting priority #1, his health, ahead of doing the last Macworld Keynote. The truth, as written by Steve Jobs himself, is that he has to recover from a medical condition. He didn’t want to put himself through the ordeal of preparing the keynote—the hardest part—and delivering it for two hours. That’s why he decided to take time off with his family and keep recovering.
Sorry but his letter does not explicitly say that at all. Why wouldn’t he have take a leave from Apple right then if that was the case? It may turn out that all of the speculation is true, and Apple lied. I have already said I have my own suspicions, but neither I, nor Diaz, has concrete proof, and it shouldn’t presented as such. I do not view Apple as some holy entity incapable of lying, but there has been no concrete proof that they have, and even if so, that any of it was materially required to be disclosed to all of creation. No concrete proof at all but inference and speculation. And I am not the only Apple fan to express some reservations despite Lyons’ attempt to paint people as wild-eyed sycophants.
So let’s just hope for all of our sakes that Cupertino has played this one totally straight.
The same thing happened when ValleyWag boldly claimed that Jobs admitted that Katie Cotton lied for him.
There is no proof of that. They did not know what was wrong with him at the time. It is quite easy to blame it on a flu or bug that is not easily shaken due to his prior surgery for pancreatic cancer and apparently a follow-up surgery that he had that did not affect his ability to act as CEO. Again this is just an inference, a leap that falls short of crossing the chasm into proof.
Enough is enough. Steve Jobs may be a legend, Steve Jobs may be personally responsible for virtually all the value that has ever been created by Apple, and Steve Jobs may run the company with an iron fist.
But enough is enough. If the men and women who are the independent directors of Apple Inc. do not immediately move to take the reins of communications regarding the severity of Steve Jobs’ illness, the likelihood of his return to the company, and the company’s plans for succession should he be unable to return, then each and every one of them should resign. Immediately.
Why Jon? What makes you the final arbiter of how and what they disclose? Isn’t that the SEC’s job? I don’t know, are they REQUIRED to reveal succession plans? If not, shut up. Run your own business the way you see fit and don’t invest in Apple. Wow, that was easy.
You can speculate and infer all you want that Apple lied. I was guilty of that initially, and my suspicions remain, but I recanted the outright accusation because there was NO proof. Treat Jobs and Apple like you would want to be treated yourself and don’t sink to the lowest common sewer line.
Valleywag adds its excrement to the pile:
Jobs and Apple have offered so many misleading disclosures about the status of his health that we’re left with party gossip and shadowy Valley execs as our best source of information. Meanwhile, no one’s asking the most important question.
Namely, if Jobs is on a six-month medical leave, with COO Tim Cook running Apple in his absence, why is he going to meetings on campus? Is his “leave” just another Jobsian obfuscation?
Forbes joins in (they should hire Lyons back):
Apple has divulged very few, and seemingly contradictory, details about Jobs’ condition over the last seven months when his gaunt appearance at a conference first sparked concerns. The company has attributed his recent weight loss to everything from “a common bug” to a “hormone imbalance.”
In the real world, medical diagnosis can take a while you dumb bunnies. The “common bug” issue was about six months before the “hormone imbalance” which your own article admits DOES happen with pancreatic cancer survivors and that the treatment is simple—which is what Jobs said! Then apparently additional information was uncovered.
Rant over.
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