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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.
He had to lose weight and do hormone therapy before all of the bionic implants could go in...
He's not dead yet!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I bought AAPL at $50 a few years ago, it's the only individual stock besides AMD (which I got burned on in the late 1990s) I have ever purchased. For a while there AAPL was touching $200 and my wife and I said that our stock in AAPL is going to pay for our daughter's college education someday.
With the way that AAPL has been going lately, I think she's going to have to go to a community college :/
Would it be safe to say that there is a Jobs opening at Apple?
Or would that be Steve closing?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
He's not dead yet!
He doesn't want to go on the cart.
That's why it's "Get well", not "RIP".
æeee!
This is all just part of the build-up for what will be the most astounding corporate marketing stunt of all time: the death and resurrection of Steve Jobs.
... Apple now has the thinnest, lightest CEO on the market.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
He doesn't want to go on the cart.
The Apple cart?
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
Inverse snob.
I should stop drinking at work.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
...We need MORE POWER to the REALITY DISTORTION FIELD, now!
Let me get this straight: you let the opinions of the type of people who post semiliterate anonymous screeds on Slashdot dictate when, where, and how you use a useful piece of equipment? Wow.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
The iDroids dream of them.
On the other hand, if you think AAPL is not strong without Jobs,
Well, I am a whiney apple fanboy, so of course I believed Apple's statements saying Jobs was in good health & thought he'd be running the company for years to come....
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
If you're Dell, you car a lot.
Do we have to bring car analogies into everything?
... and then they built the supercollider.
Dude, you can't spell out your cool obscure reference to an awesome book just because someone modded you troll, that ruins it. You just have to trust in the idea that there are cool people on /. who will get your hip shit and mod you up just to stick it to the less nerdy mods. You'll just have to live with the mod-kipple, for some day all moderations will be filled with kipple, and we'll be consumed by it.