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Steve Jobs Recovering From Hormone Imbalance, To Remain CEO

I guess you all thought that speculation never hurt anyone but I guess this can be a kind of proof.

Good luck Steve on your recovery, enjoy your time off with your family!
 
@surferfromuk - I agree, day traders are lunatics, have you see Trading Places?

Reading into this a bit it doesn't sound like cancer but a side effect of having had pancreatic cancer. Insulin is a hormone, and without you can't process sugar and you're body eats your fat to survive. It would explain him becoming thin, and he may just need to eat like a diabetic and he'll be fine. But I am by no means a doctor nor do I claim any medical knowledge.
 
dave-k said:
I fully appreciate that this is a forum in which rumours are discussed but, my goodness, this thread is in parts really quite outrageous.

Amongst the many good natured and generous messages of support, there are some which are so nauseatingly nonsensical, so self-centred and so utterly devoid of either decency or utility that they quite take my breath away.

Perhaps some contributors fully intend to inflame the situation by deliberately posting extreme views. Well, I admit that, in my case at least, they've succeeded.

I do not know Mr Jobs. Indeed, I know very little about him. I merely own a Mac and admire the company. However, as a decent human being, I gladly join with the many others who wish Steve well.

As for the rest; the wild speculation about boardroom lies, corporate fraud, illegal activity, impending death, etc., and the microscopic dissection of Mr Jobs' letter - it's exactly that, wild speculation. And much of it downright unpleasant.

I fully admit to an interest in rumours. That's why I read this site. But I do like to think that those engaged in speculation are perhaps more informed than I am, and that perhaps the speculation has some reasonable basis in fact. But in this case ... well, really!
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Utterly agree, I particularly like the comment that if Jobs left the stock would fall 40% but that's ok as the company would be back in 3 years!!
 
I don't care if he's lying about how bad or good it is, I don't care if he tells me everything, I don't care if he tells me anything. He's sick, and as a fellow human I care about his health, and only his health at the moment.
 
rick3000 said:
@surferfromuk - I agree, day traders are lunatics, have you see Trading Places?

Reading into this a bit it doesn't sound like cancer but a side effect of having had pancreatic cancer. Insulin is a hormone, and without you can't process sugar and you're body eats your fat to survive. It would explain him becoming thin, and he may just need to eat like a diabetic and he'll be fine. But I am by no means a doctor nor do I claim any medical knowledge.
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Yeah, that's a great movie...well, I just hope he get's better - he's a rare and special bird and the world doesn't see too many like him...plus I really don't ever want to have to use a Microsoft computer again!

I hope his idealism about being a vegan doesn't stop him from taking some drastic measures like eating a fish or two in order to get well again...
 
More than likely he lied. A hormone imbalance? You have to remember that this is a Billion Dollar corp. Say a statement right before Keynote?

Can't see how people are so blind. Apple makes BANK after keynotes, due to the stock price going up.

I AM NOT SURPRISED. Since the Fart app went #1, I knew what I was dealing with.
 
jaw04005 said:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/1362825,ihnatko-steve-jobs-apple-health-010509.article

I couldn't agree more with Andy.
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thanks for the link

I loved this part:

Maybe the most important thing to remember is this:

Steve Jobs is not your Dad.

He doesn't love you. He doesn't care about you. He doesn't even know you're alive.

He loves Apple, and he cares about the company's products and future.

Good. You can't buy a person's love...but $199 will buy you one hell of a cool phone. Be content and leave the man and his family alone.
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ob81 said:
More than likely he lied. A hormone imbalance? You have to remember that this is a Billion Dollar corp. Say a statement right before Keynote?

Can't see how people are so blind. Apple makes BANK after keynotes, due to the stock price going up.

I AM NOT SURPRISED. Since the Fart app went #1, I knew what I was dealing with.
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Actually the stock has taken dips even DURING keynotes before.

Also, your post is completely ridiculous and you are making baseless assertions to things you know nothing about.

What the hell is that crap about the fart app? Apple didnt make it number one, the thousands of people who bought it did.
 
ob81 said:
More than likely he lied. A hormone imbalance? You have to remember that this is a Billion Dollar corp. Say a statement right before Keynote?

Can't see how people are so blind. Apple makes BANK after keynotes, due to the stock price going up.
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Rubbish. If they lied about it, they could get sued or fined for stock manipulation and as a previous poster pointed out, stock tends to rise before then go down after the keynote, whatever happens (just like people's opinions on this forum!)
 
jaw04005 said:
I couldn't agree more with Andy.
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Columnist writes article about Steve Jobs and his health telling everyone else to drop the matter, throwing in an anecdote about a personal friend with cancer. Manages to come of as both pious and judgmental while ensuring there's relevant copy to hit deadlines, garner traffic and get those ad views.
 
JG271 said:
Rubbish. If they lied about it, they could get sued or fined for stock manipulation and as a previous poster pointed out, stock tends to rise before then go down after the keynote, whatever happens (just like people's opinions on this forum!)
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Didnt you read? Its more than likely that he lied. Clearly that poster has some information we dont, and as STOCKHOLDERS we demand he fully disclose any information he has!:rolleyes:

Blue Velvet said:
Columnist writes article about Steve Jobs and his health telling everyone else to drop the matter, throwing in an anecdote about a personal friend with cancer. Manages to come of as both pious and judgmental while ensuring there's relevant copy to hit deadlines, garner traffic and get those ad views.
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Dont you just love what journalism, more specifically tech journalism has become?:)

Edit: Srry for the repeated double posts Blue, you know I don't do it on purpose.
 
NT1440 said:
Didnt you read? Its more than likely that he lied. Clearly that poster has some information we dont, and as STOCKHOLDERS we demand he fully disclose any information he has!:rolleyes:
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Of course, how ridiculous of me :rolleyes:

It really is macrumors' silly season.
 
JG271 said:
Of course, how ridiculous of me :rolleyes:

It really is macrumors' silly season.
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Lol you know one of apples events is right around the corner when we all start tearing each other apart:D

Heres to a happy tomorrow everyone!
 
NT1440 said:
Lol you know one of apples events is right around the corner when we all start tearing each other apart:D

Heres to a happy tomorrow everyone!
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Hahaha great quote, mind if I use it as a sig?

A happy tomorrow to you too - and especially to the mods :eek: they must be so busy!
 
I'm glad Steve finally came out with this statement. It's something he should have done a year ago, but, better late than never.

It appears his condition isn't necessarily life-threatening, but, hard to know for sure without more details. I find it odd that people feel the CEO of a very big, publicly traded company doesn't have to be honest about the state of his health. Health of a leader of any type of organization is of prime concern to those who follow or invest. So, stop acting like this is only a private matter. It's not, because he is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple. If he doesn't want details of his health disclosed publicly, he should resign as the CEO of a public company.
 
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