I agree. He is an amazing CEO, but that's it. People need to realize that he is in his mid 50s and has had a bout with the most fatal cancer out there. He is not going to be around forever, its its ludicrous to think Apple won't survive without him.
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Steve Jobs Discusses Health with Reporter
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I agree. He is an amazing CEO, but that's it. People need to realize that he is in his mid 50s and has had a bout with the most fatal cancer out there. He is not going to be around forever, its its ludicrous to think Apple won't survive without him.
Funny you have said that...
you must have missed what happened to Apple when he first left and the success that followed after he came back.
He must just be human, but not every man is Steve Jobs.
you must have missed what happened to Apple when he first left and the success that followed after he came back.
He must just be human, but not every man is Steve Jobs.
The reporter is ethically bound to keep it off the record, but it he legally bound to do so? I don't think he is, unless he signed some sort of NDA.
That doesn't make any sense. Who tries to intimidate a reporter into silence by telling him the secret that everybody's trying to figure out? Jobs knew exactly what would happen: he'd write a story telling people that all is well. And of course the reporter will oblige, considering how rare a phone call like that is. It was classic Jobs.
Because nobody would (or did) "try".
This is not intimidation,
this is the way high powered individuals deal with each other all the time,
and both sides seem to enjoy it!
I personally think that Steve's health should be private, how would you like everyone on the web to know what conditions you may have? Just knowing that Steve will be OK is fine for me
I wonder if you would feel the same if you had several thousand tied up in Apple stock. If anything should happen to Steve before they groom a suitable replacement, Apple stock would plummet. Now, if I was thinking of buying stock in Apple, I'd sure as heck want to know the nature of Steve's health because his name is intertwined with the Apple brand. Steve being sick is the same as Apple being sick. As an investor, people have a right to know. Steve gave up his privacy when he became CEO and brain of Apple. Get it?
Certainly sounds like he's feeling better
*right click = control+click
and there shall be no blaspheming of the holy name of steve jobs. he is more than man. he is legend.
*bows down and worships*
lol - well said
If the reporter divulged something that was off the record then he's pretty much out of a job because no source would ever talk to him again.
Unfortunately true. There is only one SJ, POTUS, Brangelina, etc.
There daily health is important to many people.
Even more so when you are the brain trust and architect of what Apple has become.
Wow! What a load of bollocky speculation! Read the goddamn "introduction" Jobs served the reporter. Pure intimidation tactics: Try to throw the reporter off his legs, surpirse him, and while you're at it, make it personal, first by pretending the reporter has a specific opinion, and then you go on to attack his integrity as a journalist. Politicians have been using those tactic for decades.
Further, Jobs apparently was very annoyed byt his particular reporter, otherwise why the hell would he phone him in person, secondly, by forcing the reporter to promise to go off-the-record, yet divulging information, the moment the reporter then talks about this or that, the reporter will be in an ethical dilemma, because he promised not to divulge any of it, no matter if he had gotten it more or less correct in the precious article. So you guys seriously think that Jobs phoned him for no other purpose than to chat with "another high powered person" and to divulge this in order to NOT shut him up?
Well of course. Even without thinking of future sources, the fear of crossing Steve Jobs should be enough to prevent him from revealing any details.
LOL
If intimidation means giving a reporter the scoop of the day, then bring it on!
I doubt anyone at the NYTimes would agree with your position.
You are so wrong on so many levels. You are talking about a man's private health. You,me, the shareholders, the media...no one deserves this man's private information unless he offers it up. It appears that on some level that is what this brief phone "interview" is.
I wish he would pen another open letter:
Steve Jobs said:
His illness could have simply been exhaustion working to get out the iPhone3G and finishing the beta tests of the new product that is coming this quarter....getting it sent off to manufacturing.
As for 2 buttons on a trackpad...I am happy with the two fingers+click for a right click....and with multitouch growing in versatility, the next step may be 0 buttons on the pad.
.:R2theT - Well stated.
As for 2 buttons on a trackpad...I am happy with the two fingers+click for a right click....and with multitouch growing in versatility, the next step may be 0 buttons on the pad.
.:R2theT - Well stated.
Ive never really seen a nerd such as SJ!
And well.... irrespective of if he's a jerk or not, he's worth $20 billion every hour to Apple!
P.S.: A recent survey quoted that the minute he left (as of June 15th 2008), Apple's stocks will bleed $20 billion in the first hour after his leaving!
And well.... irrespective of if he's a jerk or not, he's worth $20 billion every hour to Apple!
P.S.: A recent survey quoted that the minute he left (as of June 15th 2008), Apple's stocks will bleed $20 billion in the first hour after his leaving!
The rumor I have heard is that he has had digestive issues, maybe related to his original Pancreatic cancer surgery and recovery, but not malignant.
But to the privacy issue.
Can you imagine POTUS not having every part of his or her medical exam and records being made public? Even candidates divulge their medical records.
But to the privacy issue.
Can you imagine POTUS not having every part of his or her medical exam and records being made public? Even candidates divulge their medical records.
Not true
Only in the US.
/end threadjack and discussion on healthcare in US vs. rest of developed world.
There's no such thing as a poor cancer survivor.
Poor people can't afford health care and die of "natural causes."
Only in the US.
/end threadjack and discussion on healthcare in US vs. rest of developed world.
You're leaving out the part about what happened after the introduction. I can guarantee that the reporter was not complaining about getting Jobs on the line. Not just anyone gets that kind of personal attention from Jobs.
You call it dastardly intimidation of a "free" press. I call it "This is how Jobs deals with people."
Yes, compounded by the fact that he's a vegan.
I agree. And in Apple's case, where they have made the CEO "the innovator" and "the face" of the entire corporation, of course it matters to shareholders.
Exactly, who cares about the second button? I mean really.
What I want is a power button on my keyboard. That's what's missing.
Sigh Reread my post. I wasn't talking about phoning only. And I'm not leaving anything out either. Au contraire, you seem to be doing that.
Reread my posts. You obviously skipped any- and everything from the phone call onwards.
Yes, it can be that too. I call it amateurish attempts at intimidation.
Likely illness
His illness was any range of things from a stenosis of the anastomotic junction between his stomach and jejunum resulting from his original pancreaticoduodenectomy to 'dumping syndrome' to adhesional problems and even what Steve himself said - 'a bug'.
Why yes, I am a junior surgeon...
His illness was any range of things from a stenosis of the anastomotic junction between his stomach and jejunum resulting from his original pancreaticoduodenectomy to 'dumping syndrome' to adhesional problems and even what Steve himself said - 'a bug'.
Why yes, I am a junior surgeon...