Fake Rumors of Steve Jobs Heart Attack Circulate

A little bacon never hurt anyone.

Some people are sick.

I call shenanigans!

Sounds like someone's short-selling, trying to pick up some cheap APPL.

Why?

Low Life. Go out and meet people instead of trying to be funny.

Nice way to make $10 a share.

My initial reaction here is that this was done to manipulate the stock price. Note how the stock spiked lower to $94.65. It's now hovering at $104

I'm sure the feds and SEC will investigate.

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brilliant. It was probably the next part of microsofts marketing strategy.

Whoever did that seriously needs to get a life. That is among the lowest thing that you can do. However, it has highlighted the importance of Steve Jobs to Apple and the way that he is identified with the product. When Steve actually retires, I wonder what will happen to the stock then...

I SWEAR if I catch the &@#$&^@!*$Y%&$)*@#%*#$!)@#$&%@&^!#)$&@$%&!^@#$)@#$%&@#)!#&*%#$) who did this I'm going to rip him a new Macbook Air. I am SO TORQUED by this. My call options lost $1 in 10 minutes because of this and they're not exactly recovering right now.

WHY THE HECK IS IT TRADING AT $104!! AAPL should be trading at $110 easy!

Okay, rant over. Time for some relaxing music.

To anyone who rated this "positive": die in a fire.

Edit: Also, 4chan is not "unmoderated." Way to fact check.

Sick humor.

But has anyone seen Job's alive the last days?

Jobs better not be trying to get out of releasing those MB and MBP's.

This is what happens when you let ametures "try" and be reporters. CNN should be ashamed of themselves, and are ultimately responsible for this. As you can see, the stakes are just too high to let beginners (and bloggers!) pretend to be journalists...

Journalists used to have ethics, and that included fact checking. That seems to have gone the way of the Dodo. CNN has thrown their ethics out the window by just ALLOWING "citizen" journalists, especially with no oversight. I see Lara Logan has been stealing Iraqi art from the war zone, many other things... Journalism just is not what it used to be at all.

depulse said:

Sick humor.

But has anyone seen Job's alive the last days?

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YOU ARE JUST AS SICK yourself, with a comment like that. If this is meant to be a joke, it falls flat. VERY flat.

mspman said:

I SWEAR if I catch the &@#$&^@!*$Y%&$)*@#%*#$!)@#$&%@&^!#)$&@$%&!^@#$)@#$%&@#)!#&*%#$) who did this I'm going to rip him a new Macbook Air. I am SO TORQUED by this. My call options lost $1 in 10 minutes because of this and they're not exactly recovering right now.

WHY THE HECK IS IT TRADING AT $104!! AAPL should be trading at $110 easy!

Okay, rant over. Time for some relaxing music.

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You honestly probably care more about this than Steve Jobs.

The fake Steve Jobs had a heart attack?

Whoever stooped low enough to spread a rumor or a Jobs heart attack should be ashamed. It looks like there are many people out the get AAPL and it seems to be an easy job with AAPL stocks being so fickle based upon silly rumors...

ShadoW

Filtering

Since such nefarious acts manipulate, and potentially harm, our nations fragile market(s), perhaps the NSA can be persuaded to add new criteria to their filters.

It would be boost to 'national security' to catch a few dweebs like this.

This nonsense about Steve job's health is getting out of hand.

What are "fake rumors"?

xix said:

To anyone who rated this "positive": die in a fire.

Edit: Also, 4chan is not "unmoderated." Way to fact check.

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Yeah anonymous image board != unmoderated.

velorapide said:

What are "fake rumors"?

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I was going to say the same thing.

Can't we all do the world a favor and never mention failchan *ever*

xix said:

To anyone who rated this "positive": die in a fire.
Edit: Also, 4chan is not "unmoderated." Way to fact check.

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Sounds like someone did a tinkle in your cereal this morning. Piss of these boards, eh?

It's interesting how everyone has these conspiracy theories about why the person(s) did it and that serious investigations will occur due to stock price manipultion. That's enough to give a normal person a hearty laugh. Job's health has been a topic of intense interest for months now and they probably wanted to see if they were lucky enough to get it on CNN's page for a few minutes. The fact that it would make the front page of several news sites, I'm sure, was unexpected.

Continuing on this 'conspiracy theory' train of thought, whenever Apple does anything suspicious, 98% of the people here believe it to be absolutely ridiculous to imagine that Apple's intentions are anything but genuine and kind--without thinking (much like this thread). I'm not arguing that Apple is guilty of conspiring, but people's attitudes sure change very quickly around here. Bi-polar, anyone?

xix said:

To anyone who rated this "positive": die in a fire.

Edit: Also, 4chan is not "unmoderated." Way to fact check.

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+1

Well, for all intents and purposes, /b/ is pretty much unmoderated.

No one should care too much if it came from 4chan...cause it's so full of normal people