newsweek.com - 1/16/2009
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For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn't doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months. Some suggest the company has misled investors; shareholder lawsuits seem likely. ...
bloomberg.com - 1/16/2009
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bloomberg.com —
Apple’s Jobs Said to Be Considering Liver Transplant
(Update1) By Connie Guglielmo, John Lauerman and Dina Bass...
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after ...
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bloomberg.com - 1/15/2009
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Apple’s Cook Pushes Staff in Lieu of Jobs’s
Magic (Update1) By Dina Bass and Connie Guglielmo Jan....
15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming. Tim Cook , who ...
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blog.wired.com - 1/15/2009
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blog.wired.com —
Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple is likely
to be permanent, analysts say. In a letter to...
Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are "more complex than I originally ...
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Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple
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Fake Steve has a pretty scathing view of the Apple PR machine
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Dan "Fake Steve" Lyons has penned a pretty nasty (but in many ways true) piece about the Apple PR Machine:
That's what happened to the poor guy at CNBC. Sure, he got his share of "exclusive" 10-minute spots with Steve Jobs. You can find them on YouTube. They look like training videos for a correspondence course on bootlicking. Now, of course, the CNBC guy says he's outraged. He sputters about how Apple has been irresponsible and "deplorable." His pals at Apple won't care. They're already moving on to the next useful idiot. ...
The Truth
Mac Soda —
... Dan Lyons, who we know as Fake Steve, wrote an extraordinarily accurate piece about Apple’s PR. While it may seem negative, bitter or hateful, its true. Go check it out for yourself. As bad as it sounds, he’s right. ...
Rotten Reporting
SuperSite Blog —
... Dan Lyons finally takes on a very obvious problem: Apple has too many friends in the media and rather than be critical of the company, they simply suck up to Apple in return for "super-secret" access. ...
Dan Lyons: Rotten reporting on Apple
The Apple Core —
... [image] Newsweek’s Dan Lyons writes that the media’s coverage of Apple bites. His rationale? For the past six months Steve Jobs has been looking terribly ill. But only this week did Apple finally acknowledge that Jobs isn’t doing well, when the company announced that Jobs would take a leave for six months. If you haven’t seen Lyons infamous ...
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community.winsupersite.com 1/22/2009 — Dan Lyons finally takes on a very obvious problem : Apple has too many friends in the media and rather than be critical of the company, they simply suck up to Apple in return for "super-secret" access. Heads-up, Dan. It's old news. I've ...
Dan Lyons: Why We Need Steve Jobs | Newsweek Technology
newsweek.com 6/25/2009 — I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already have last year's iPhone 3G model, not to mention a ...
Where Is Steve Jobs?
blog.wired.com 12/19/2008 —
Steve Jobs' absence from the public eye is starting to prompt questions about the Apple CEO's status, management effectiveness and health.
So far, the company has done little to provide substantive answers to those questions.
The
mystery ...
For Steve Jobs, we expect One More Thing
arstechnica.com 1/16/2009 — While the media seems eager to put Steve Jobs in hospice care and run stories about the bygone Jobs era and Apple’s shaky future, we think it’s premature to count the iCEO out just yet. Read More...
Fake Steve Jobs Is Back
cultofmac.com 6/22/2009 —
Dan Lyons at a San Francisco book signing in 2007 with tech podcaster Veronica Belmont and Bike Helmet Girl, a recurrent character in the Secret Diary.
Steve Jobs may not be back to work yet, but Fake Steve is.
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The Patents of Steve Jobs
technologizer.com 5/28/2009 — Among the many uncanny parallels between Stephen Paul Jobs and Walter Elias Disney is this one: Very early on, both abandoned the work that in some respects might seem to define their careers. Walt Disney began as a cartoonist, but by the late 1920s ...
Steve Jobs is "back to work," says Apple
arstechnica.com 6/30/2009 —
Apple has confirmed that Steve Jobs is back at work on a somewhat reduced schedule. Jobs is now working on Apple's campus for a few days per week and making up the rest of the time while working from home, a spokesperson told various ...
Questions linger after Jobs' exit —
Apple 1/16/2009
Far from ending the swirl of speculation about Steve Jobs' health, his announcement Wednesday that he would take a six-month medical leave only fueled suspicions that Apple hasn't come clean about the condition of its chief executive.
Apple, Yahoo boards face criticism —
Apple 1/17/2009
While the circumstances are different, the directors at each company have been accused of being too deferential to management. Apple's board should have been more aggressive in managing the news about Steve Jobs' illness, critics say, while Yahoo's ...
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