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Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple

Posted by timothy on from the get-well-soon dept.

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.

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  1. Shoulda eaten more meat, Steve-o! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Meat is good for you, and good for AAPL. Now, it's gonners for the both of yous.

  2. Hmm. by Toonol · · Score: 0, Troll

    SELL SELL SELL!!!

    And best wishes for Mr. Job's health in the future.

    But, SELL SELL SELL!

  3. Re:Python by GFree678 · · Score: -1, Troll

    OK, I can understand a joke in poor taste, but since I got modded immediately to Troll I gather than Slashdot doesn't appreciate black humor, probably due to its relatively large Apple fanbase. Time to break my login so I don't bother with comments again.

  4. wank by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wank wank wank wank wank, I think I just come

  5. Re:LOL, No... by defaria · · Score: 1, Troll
    I'm kind of sick of this

    MP3 players were drab and virtually useless before the iPod

    bullshit. Perhaps you saw MP3 players ad drab and useless before the iPod but I can assure you the millions of other people sure did not. And get this news, millions of people still don't use iPods nor iPhones because their MP3 players or smartphones of choice are still vastly superior to the iThings that Apple puts out. Apple makes a nice product but it's for the sheep of the world who blindly follow Apple and limit their demands to only that which Apple says they should have!

  6. Re:LOL, No... by pacificleo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ya right!! Even Sidekick was also revolutionary at the time of launch . its nearly same order of magnitude jump as iphone [if any jump at all ] but it doesn't had blessing of Cupertino's Jesus and there were no fucking fan boys to chant the name . just till the time this reality distortion field goes down and people going back to crack berry and dumping the shiny scratched phone without any keypad

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  7. Re:As always, amatuers like you fail at stocks by elbobo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pathetic.

  8. Re:As always, amatuers like you fail at stocks by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just for the record -- I've never paid anything close to 10 bucks for a frothy coffee at Starbucks.

    Other than that, yeah, the iPhone is shiny crap for wannabes.

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