"Is he gone yet?" Ping!
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Posted on 01/05/2009 11:47:55 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Apple founder Steve Jobs today denied rumours he was seriously ill and insisted he would be staying on as the company's chief executive.
There had been fears for the businessman's health after he appeared looking increasingly gaunt and then pulled out of making a keynote address this week.
But in an open letter, the 53-year-old insisted that rumours about his well-being were wide of the mark and that he is only suffering from a hormone imbalance.
He noted that his decision not to make an address at this week's Macworld exhibition in San Francisco had prompted 'stories of me on my deathbed'.
But he added: '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 No 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.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ping.
Re: profit losses and hiding the truth
Baloney! Firstly, the criminal sanctions (up to 20 years imprisonment and multi-million dollar personal fines) for officers and Board members of publicly traded companies makes your theory a non-starter. Secondly, Apple’s profits have little to do with the value of their stock. If any Apple officer were party to such a cover-up, they’d essentially be stripped of the jobs, holdings, assets, and imprisoned The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law made sure of that.
For all of you that are hinting at AIDS, the hormonal imbalance is a side effect of the “Whipple” procedure surgery—where the cancerous portion of one’s pancreas is excised—which cured Jobs of the Pancreatic Cancer four years ago. AIDS is not in the picture.
Everyone I knew with pancreatic cancer lost tons of weight too......
Jobs did not have the usual pancreatic cancer. It was on the surface of the pancreas or something like that. Google will give you a more accurate description
As far ss the legalities, I stand... er sit, corrected. That said, from the look of him I still say the guy looks like he is dying and that can’t be good for Apple company profits.
Hope he feels better soon.
I wouldn’t be so cynical.
Pancreatic cancer has traditionally been a death sentence but there have been advances in a road to a cure. I wish the man all good luck. He is a true American treasure ... a REAL innovator in a world that throws that word around lightly.
Interesting development
I don't know the truth here but Apple's stock (AAPL) has been bouncing around with every press release and rumor. They may well have decided to stabilize it for at least awhile by issuing this statement.
Apple was up 5% today as a result.
So many Internet doctors, so few patients!
different kind of Jobs
That's just it. As major a player as Apple is, the market perceives it as a one-man show. And it's stock price, in the 90's, is supremely vulnerable in this era of "cash is king" should that "One man" falter.
I’m not disagreeing.
I hope the company maintains its integrity one day without him. But last time he left, the company nearly died.
I thought it was nonsense, until I read he had part of his pancreas taken out.
This not only messes up your insulin, but removes the enzymes needed to digest food...there is a treatment, which is to take the digestive enzymes by mouth...but the diabetes caused by the procedure can be hard to control...
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