Steve's personal association with All Things Digital co-presenter Walt Mossberg, maybe we could be forgiven for reading some truth in Kara Swisher's report, and the possibility that Steve himself has, just this once, uncharacteristically sanctioned the leak. In a way I hope that's the case.
Kara Swisher's comments about product focus aside, if Steve does turn up tomorrow, possibly to take one last bow, but most definitely hopefully to show us all he's still very much in the game, it will surely be a very emotional event for all, the most emotional in Apple's history so far.
As well as being somewhat grotesque in its intrusiveness, this intensive interest and coverage of Steve's health is in reality so much more. In pure business terms, the true picture has great significance, not just for the future of Apple, but for the future of technology as a whole. Why not an Apple car, Apple medical solutions some day?, Apple... something else we don't yet know we need?!
But for those of us who actually care for the man, as a human being, as well as the business genius he undoubtedly is, and we are surely many, this is very difficult time indeed.