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Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "A number of sites are reporting that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence till June at least. Speculation over Jobs' possibly failing health has run rampant in the past few weeks. Prior to the recent MacWorld show, Jobs said he had a hormone deficiency that had caused him to dramatically lose weight. In a memo today Jobs told workers his health issues are more complex than he thought." Reader Bastian227 adds a link to this letter from Steve Jobs on Apple's website, which also says that Tim Cook will be responsible for daily operations, though Jobs will remain involved with major strategic decisions.
An appropriate tag
.. next we are going to have a post telling us steve's stool isn't a healthy colour. seriously people, post something news worthy for once.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
OS X continues to be niche OS just like when he took over with the most exciting news about Macs over the past few years has been that you can run another company's OS on them.
The huge success of the iPod is nothing more than a footnote as cellphones are taking over the predominate role of portable media devices. Microsoft is looking to phase out their Zune efforts as the market is not going to be worth bothering with a few years from now.
And, yeah, 'teh iPhone'. Millions of emo Starbucks drinking retards posting their unboxing vids on youtube and looking for every single possible way they can somehow work their phone into their conversations to try to make it clear just how 'special' they are.
The amazing Palm Pre unveiling shows just how irrelevant Apple is to the computing world outside of endless and tiresome hype. And bullshit about 'changing a lot in teh tech sector'...
The AIDS tag? Seriously? I've never heard anyone shopping around a rumor that Jobs has AIDS.
Funny thing about Pancreatic Cancer. It can easily cause a "hormone imbalance" because the pancreas secretes essential hormones like insulin. Pancreatic cancer is also usually incurable once it is diagnosed, with a less than 5% 5 year survival rate.
He's as good as dead. Let's move on, shall we?
Man, I would love to short sell about $20,000 worth of AAPL tomorrow.
I'm going to make a /. post next time Michael Morhaime (head of Blizzard) is hung over. Honestly, what other CEOs get this cult level of worship?
At least I can commit to a damn opinion and mean it.
Network unlocks are available from the networks themselves in most countries
Most ? what about the rest ?
practically single click now, and there's next to no risk of bricking
Apart from when there is !
Look I didn't start the name calling routine, you did. I might have a bee in my bonnet, you've got the whole damn hive under yours.
Still, this is the reaction you get from iFanbois when someone tries to steal their thunder. Publicly extolling the virtues of the gold plated turd, yet secretly harbouring the suspicion that your part of an almighty con-trick.
A nerve with fellow crying babies like yourself.
Look, I'm not even reading your arguments. I stop reading each of your messages one or two sentences in.
I've seen you and your kind around for decades (as long as I've been in this industry). Hell, you're not even unique to this industry. You're a reasonably universal phenomenon.
Fascinating to study in psychology and sociology, but pointless to actually debate with. What's driving you is not rationality. Passion and negativity, for sure, but not rational.
If I were to engage your arguments I'd be missing the point. And if I were to try and help you out of your fugue I'd be giving you free medical service. Sorry buddy, I'm off the clock.
What rationale drives you to continually post replies to me when you can't even be bothered to read the entirety of my post, Asshole. There, happy now, language you can possibly relate to ?