Star "Jobs' Health Rapidly Declining, Inevitable News Spring 2009"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Dec 2008 23:49 UTC
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y 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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sbergman27
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2005-07-24

So it is possible that Steve Jobs is feeling very poorly, despite the fact that he may, in fact, be in generally good health.

The sentiment I'm observing is this:

Steve Jobs Alive == Good for Apple

Steve Jobs Dead == Bad for Apple

So, how about "Steve Jobs Comatose"?

If Steve has failed to build a competent management team and to plan for his eventual departure from Apple then he has been a damned poor CEO of Apple. He might have intentionally failed to do just that. Job security ploys do extend up into the CEO range. In fact, the whole "Apple can't live without Steve Jobs" meme may very well have been engineered by Steve Jobs himself.

Edited 2008-12-31 05:30 UTC

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SkateNY Member since:
2008-12-01

WOW! I guess there is life on Mars.

Steve Jobs needs job security? I suppose Warren Buffet, Alex Rodriguez and Santa Claus also need job security.

If you truly believe that Jobs did not build a competent management team, then you haven't been paying attention to Apple's mutltiple successes during the past ten years.

Pancreatic cancer is, without a doubt, a serioius condition. So is aging.

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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

WOW! I guess there is life on Mars.
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If you truly believe that Jobs did not build a competent management team, then you haven't been paying attention to Apple's mutltiple successes during the past ten years.

Please learn to read. The linked story, the "read more" commentary from OSNews, and most of the posts under the story title treat the "fact" that Apple is in deep doodoo if they lose Steve Jobs as a foregone conclusion.

I clearly said that *IF* Jobs has not built a team competent to take over when he departs Apple then he's been a poor CEO. Perhaps "negligent" would have been a clearer term.

Personally, I think Apple would probably be OK without him. Though losing a talented, long-time CEO could be expected to have some effect upon any company.

Edited 2008-12-31 21:06 UTC

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segedunum Member since:
2005-07-06

If you truly believe that Jobs did not build a competent management team, then you haven't been paying attention to Apple's mutltiple successes during the past ten years.

I have, and I'm afraid Steve hasn't got anyone to replace him. Everything positive that has happened post-1997 after the years of disaster has all been down to Steve finding Apple's way. The management team prior to 1997 were competent in lots of ways, but they had no idea what to do with Apple.

Pancreatic cancer is, without a doubt, a serioius condition. So is aging.

Errrrr, you cannot compare the two at all. Aging isn't even a comparable. condition for a start.

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