Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jun 2009 21:45 UTC
I'm sorry, but I can't get around it any more. Over the weekend, we had a story in the reputable Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago in a hospital in Tennessee. This story got all over the Apple media - obviously - and was later confirmed by the hospital in question. All the usual questions arose about privacy, Warren Buffet had a remark about it, and so on. Let's get all these stories out of the way in one go.
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2005-07-06
Nice to see that the cult of personality is alive and well in the modern world. As westerns laugh to themselves over the brain washing North Korean citizens receive from their "great leader" we have the same people shaking in their boots that the "great leader" of Apple might be sick and he might retire. Has it occurred to anyone that Steve Jobs is human and shock horror, one day he might actually have to step down?
Its interesting to see that we have investors (not long term, but the parasitic 'day traders' who treat the share exchange like a glorified casino), and people here who dismiss the thousands of people within Apple who make every product, promotion and marketing gimmick possible. People who seem to think that once Steve goes the whole company will go to hell in a hand basket whilst ignoring that Apple is nothing like the Apple at the time Steve took over.
Then again, this whole control of information by Apple I can understand but it seems to have all the overtones of Liberace and his life. Instead of coming out and acknowledging the best known secret, there is an attempt to cut off information which ultimately only leads to new and even more exotic rumours being started.
Edited 2009-06-25 02:12 UTC