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Steve Jobs Taking New Medical Leave of Absence

Thinking about Steve Jobs and his accomplishments made me realize that on a day-to-day basis no company's products have contributed more to my enjoyment of life than Apple. Whether I'm doing something productive, socializing, or just amusing myself, an Apple product is usually involved, "just working", and making whatever I do a pleasure--or at least making it easier and more fun. Each generation produces only a handful of people who truly change the world, and Steve Jobs has undeniably changed ours.

I'm grateful to Steve Jobs for what he's contributed, and I wish him a speedy and complete recovery; even more, I wish him the peace of mind he's earned.
 
We need you back!!!

Get well soon...we need your innovation back at Apple. I know when you come back you will have many surprises for us. Looking forward to them!!!
 
worried :(

Hope you get better steveo, can you imagine apple with out him?? i cant, it just doesn’t work.

4.7% survival rate.......:( (or so i have read)


This does not look good.

My best wishes to steve and his family.
 
Wow, half of the posts are "get well Steve" posts and the other half are about how much AAPL is going to tumble. Since when did this site become so financially oriented? I thought this was a tech-based site. I'm sure there are more appropriate sites for people to argue and gauge how much money they are going to lose due to Steve's Job's poor health.
 
kas23 said:
Wow, half of the posts are "get well Steve" posts and the other half are about how much AAPL is going to tumble. Since when did this site become so financially oriented? I thought this was a tech-based site. I'm sure there are more appropriate sites for people to argue and gauge how much money they are going to lose due to Steve's Job's poor health.
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I don't find this offensive or strange at all. Steve Jobs is a business man. And the CEO of a company. I doubt ANY of the posters here are personal friends of his. They enjoy the company - the innovator behind it and their investments. I would doubt any are blood relatives either.

A discussion of how this affects or could affect the company is natural.
 
There might be a positive explanation

Steve Jobs has given many of us a better and more enjoyable set of experiences. I hope he is back to doing that soon. One thing I have not seen much written about is PTLD. You can look it up: Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder. It is a lymphoma, usually only seen in post transplant panients, especially prevelent in people on drugs like tacrolimus or sirolimus. (Tacrolimus or FK-506 is Prograf and is one of the best and most common anti-rejection drugs used after a liver transplant. His photos could suggest it, and the fact that he did not step down as CEO may also suggest it. It seems to be associated with Epstein Barr virus and as such, it is nearly 100% curable after treating it for a while. Steve has had a bad run health wise in the last few years. This could be happening and yet put light at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand I hope he has nothing but the flu.

BTW I am a retired transplant surgeon, a liver transplant recipient, a survivor of liver cancer and two years out from a bad year with PTLD. We all could do with less of the sniping. This is life and death stuff. I wish him and everyone good health.:)
 
Defender2010 said:
Tim Cook should be CEO permanently and just leave Jobs his security pass to come and visit now and again, on the days he isn't relaxing at home reading, painting or just chilling with his family. Apple will still go from strength to strength as a brand and create amazing products.
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LOL!!!!! Steve Jobs does NOT need a security pass for Inifinite Loop!!:)))
 
As fast as this thread is going, no one will even read my post, but I feel the need to post it for some stupid, time-consuming purpose:

  • Apple wouldn't be the same without Steve Jobs.
  • But, Apple still has a great culture and lots of innovative minds.
  • Therefore, I think it will take a long time for Apple's culture to decay after Jobs leaves.
  • Moreover, let us hope that such a time isn't any time soon.

Get well soon, Steve. I hope someone at Apple tells you how many people think about you, pray about you or send their well-wishes every single day. There's a lot of us out there.
 
TitoC said:
30 "Positive" ratings on this story? What's wrong with these people?

P.S. Get well soon Steve.
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Keep in mind that this could also mean people 'like' the fact that Steve's taking the much-needed time out to care for himself. As much as we all love Apple and all it has to offer, any one man's life is more important. I'm glad he's getting the rest he needs at this time. Hopefully he'll rise above this as well.
 
Almost -8% on European stock exchanges, spectacular fall just before 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern)

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arkitect said:
Really?
Would be curious to hear why you think so.
Fire/blacksmith... what obvious connection am I missing here? ;)
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Looking at what Hephaistos and his shop created, & ultimately became, as a prime driver of the most advanced technology that made everyone drool... pushing design & innovation to the bleeding edge, not to mention the cult following (though that ultimately became a major religion and more general way of life). Plus, you have the whole angle of Hephaistos' physical impairment that could not be overcome. Of course, he obviously also handcrafted all his early works entirely himself, but had he existed today, I think it's easy to imagine he'd be in the same position as Jobs. ...but probably producing death-rays and vaporizer guns and things. Then mythology had to go nuts and turn him into a cartoon. Not unlike SJ either I guess.
 
houttbe said:
Almost -8% on European stock exchanges, spectacular fall just before 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern)

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All I know is that I bought stock about a year ago and have watched it grow with periods of drop as much as $20 only to recover. I'm not selling.

I mean lets face it. Say Apple became microsoft and rested on previous accomplishments for decades, current products such as iphone and ipad have a long period of growth head of them. Even without new products down the pipeline, Apple would have financial growth for quite some time.

It would catch up to them eventually like it did with microsoft. That company sat on Windows and Office forever and eventually the stock got stuck at a relatively low price with little growth.
 
weintrw said:
Steve Jobs has given many of us a better and more enjoyable set of experiences. I hope he is back to doing that soon. One thing I have not seen much written about is PTLD. You can look it up: Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder. It is a lymphoma, usually only seen in post transplant panients, especially prevelent in people on drugs like tacrolimus or sirolimus. (Tacrolimus or FK-506 is Prograf and is one of the best and most common anti-rejection drugs used after a liver transplant. His photos could suggest it, and the fact that he did not step down as CEO may also suggest it. It seems to be associated with Epstein Barr virus and as such, it is nearly 100% curable after treating it for a while. Steve has had a bad run health wise in the last few years. This could be happening and yet put light at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand I hope he has nothing but the flu.

BTW I am a retired transplant surgeon, a liver transplant recipient, a survivor of liver cancer and two years out from a bad year with PTLD. We all could do with less of the sniping. This is life and death stuff. I wish him and everyone good health.:)
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Congratulations on your recovery. I hope Steve will recover. Tim Cook is a busdriver.
 
I'm not a big fan of SJ, but when he's gone, he's going to be replaced by some douche greasy manager, ****ing Apple over.
 
vartanarsen said:
LOL!!!!! Steve Jobs does NOT need a security pass for Inifinite Loop!!:)))
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You are assuming there is not an entire industry of Steve Jobs impersonators who try on a regular basis to sneak in and walk out with an iPhone 7 or an iPad 3. If you walk down the street, you will find row after row of Steve Jobs mask vendors.

"I am sorry, I left my badge and keys back home. Can you let me into one of the black labs?"
 
This fear of Apple's demise has already been measured into the value of the Stock.

The Markets are well aware of Steve's limited time on Earth.

Move along. Nothing to see here.
 
weintrw said:
Steve Jobs has given many of us a better and more enjoyable set of experiences. I hope he is back to doing that soon. One thing I have not seen much written about is PTLD. You can look it up: Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder. It is a lymphoma, usually only seen in post transplant panients, especially prevelent in people on drugs like tacrolimus or sirolimus. (Tacrolimus or FK-506 is Prograf and is one of the best and most common anti-rejection drugs used after a liver transplant. His photos could suggest it, and the fact that he did not step down as CEO may also suggest it. It seems to be associated with Epstein Barr virus and as such, it is nearly 100% curable after treating it for a while. Steve has had a bad run health wise in the last few years. This could be happening and yet put light at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand I hope he has nothing but the flu.

BTW I am a retired transplant surgeon, a liver transplant recipient, a survivor of liver cancer and two years out from a bad year with PTLD. We all could do with less of the sniping. This is life and death stuff. I wish him and everyone good health.:)
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Wow. You have certainly been through much. Congrats on your good health and much luck for 2011 and beyond, for everyone :)
 
Let's just hope...

...that it's like us taking a "sick day" or just to rejuvenate his creativity. You need to get away from things once in a while just to maintain that high level and it gets worse with age.

I have every confidence in Tim Cooks ability to run the company in Steve's absence.

Let's see: 15" MacBook Pro, iPhone 4 and a whole bunch of G4 towers.
 
i.mac said:
Yes he did.

Look around you.
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No. He didn't. The cell phone industry wasn't in the red. The cell phone industry was and would still be profitable without the iPhone.

The iPhone did not "save" the cell phone industry. It propelled it - but did not save it. It didn't need saving in 2007.

But feel free to rewrite history. Having worked for a major cell phone manufacturer I can state flat out that you're wrong....
 
bbotte said:
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Sell Sell SELL!
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Buy buy BUY on the dips.

Best wishes to you Steve....do as much outside the medical industry as possible...you will live longer. From what I've heard I have my suspicions that you already have/are.
 
Steve Jobs' worth to the world is incredible. Just the news about his health problems has shaved $30 billion from Apple's market cap. in foreign trading. Apple will survive without Steve Jobs, but let's face it, Apple will not be the same without him. He is a genius AND and the top minds want to work for Steve Jobs.
 
I do hope he gets well soon. The tech world changed by a pretty big amount because of him.

(Also, go stop by the iFans website and read the posts about this. my username is the same over there. apparently they think i wished he was dead, when i NEVER even said that. go look for yourself and you tell me who is right. http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=330716&page=7 did i EVER mention i wanted him dead? of course not! thats awful!)
 
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