Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Dec 2008 23:49 UTC
Steve Jobs' health has been an important topic of rumours ever since he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in mid-2004. He was treated successfully, and recovered from his ordeal. Ever since then, rumours of possible health problems popped up regularly, which were only ignited further by Apple's recent announcement to drop out of MacWorld San Fransisco, with Steve Jobs not delivering the famous keynote speech coming January. Gizomodo threw a whole lot of oil on the fire today by publishing information which they claim comes from a source which has always been 100% accurate.
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I really hate vultures circling with avengeance and I also hate PR stunts that try and cover up something that should be no cause for embarrassment to announce, so I do hope all of this is completely false. The latter is something I find very distatesteful and I like to keep downwind when I smell around Apple, because they do quite a bit of it. They're one of the most paranoid companies around, which is a big reason why they don't make as much money as they should. It's one of the things Steve has got wrong and has contributed to.
Say what you like though, but something is wrong. Pancreatic tumours don't have a great survival rate whatever they are and Jobs's physical appearance has definitely declined. Yes, some people say that MacWorld might be deliclining but it doesn't explain why their CEO would not give the final rousing keynote to underline what they've achieved, and MacWorld has definitely produced buzz over the years. In these YouTube times it should still be relevant.
However, the reason why they are paranoid about this is because they know Steve Jobs is effectively Apple. Every other individual or team of people who have tried to guide the company over the years have only succeeded in turning them into a rudderless software company who have turned their hardware business into a total loss with no clue how to turn it around. Only Jobs was capable of coming in and saying "We're doing this, this and this and we need to do this" - exactly as he did in the MacWorld of 1997. They did a deal with Microsoft, but they hardly needed to rely on it to survive.
Only Jobs could look at portable music players and make a huge market out of it where others had failed miserably (and still do), and only Jobs could make a success out of producing a mobile phone that didn't look like another boring, corporate Crackberry no one wanted. Other CEOs would have been spineless and clueless and would have tried to 'partner' with other hardware companies or with Microsoft to put Windows Mobile on it. That's really what is at stake here because Steve is that important. The public and media 'believes' it and will go naturally go overboard on it, and Apple knows it because it's the reality.