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Steve Jobs Taking Medical Leave of Absence
Uttini writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs has just announced that he is taking a medical leave of absence, according to a release issued by the company today. While it's unclear what the reason is for the medical leave, Jobs' previous medical history includes pancreatic cancer as well as a liver transplant. While Jobs is out, Tim Cook is to be responsible for all of Apple's day to day operations."
I hope that no matter what operating system or computer manufacturer you love or hate, everyone can come together and wish him well. Whether you love or hate what he's done in the industry, he's a fellow human being first, and I hope he has a speedy recovery.
Sure. Though I wish he had the same respect for disabled people.
Well this is why they announced it on a US bank holiday when no shares are trading there.
In Frankfurt, Europe meanwhile, Apple shares are already down 7%.
Looks like it's business as usual in the crazy world of Apple shares.
I wanna be happy. We all die. Stacking up zeroes isn't making The Jobs immortal, only immoral.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Why is Apple's stock so prone to heavy fluctuation at the even the slightest hint of something not being perfect?
I suspect it's because it's horrendously overvalued. Apple investors get scared that the bubble will burst, and no one wants to be the last one out. When it doesn't turn out that the "correction" is actually happening, people regain their senses^H^H^H^H^H^Hgreed.
Not sure about 'most accounts' but how about the time He and Woz got a $5,000 payment from Atari. He told Woz it was $700, and gave him $350 as his half. Fortune described him as 'one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs'. He banned all books published by Wiley from Apple stores because they dared to publish an unauthorised autobiography of him. He refused to acknowledge his daughter, who his mother initially had to raise on welfare payments.
You don't often get to be as successful in business as he has been by being a nice person.
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Really? Not that I am invested in AAPL, but it's got a PE of ~23. Going by Benjamin Graham's rule of thumb it needs to grow at 7.5%. What with the healthy product stream (iPads, new customer base with CMDA iPhone), that doesn't seem terribly overpriced.
People remember what happened to Apple last time Steve Jobs left.
He had a rare type of pancreatic cancer called "Islet cell neuroendocrine tumor" which is far less deadly than most pancreatic cancer.
Sorry to throw a damper on your smug little rant, but it's not unusual at all that he would survive that.
He says he is a Christian, but everytime he quotes from the Constitution he skips the word "God".
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold the fuck on.
Please cite where the word "god" appears ANYWHERE in the constitution, other than the "Year of our Lord" boilerplate, which signifies the use of the modern calendar as a date.
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http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html
I searched for "god" and got no results, "lord", got the one, just in the Year of our Lord, "religion" and got three results, two are in the Constitution and one is the outline at the top of the page.
That's kind of the deal. I like Steve Job's because he's defined the curve of the gadgets I play with.
I don't log onto Slashdot to read about your vibrating butt plug.