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Steve Jobs' Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for MacWorld Cancellation [Rumor]
Steve Jobs' Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for MacWorld Cancellation [Rumor]
According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind MacWorld and Jobs' keynote cancellation . Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined: Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to ...
  Local yogurt store tells blogger that Steve Jobs is “in great health”
Local yogurt store tells blogger that Steve Jobs is “in great health”
venturebeat.com — Amid a flurry of ( disputed ) reports and rumors about Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ “rapidly declining health,” blogger Robert Scoble did some field work to dig for the truth today. Well okay, he was in a yogurt shop with his friend, Socialtext ... (more) Local yogurt store tells blogger that Steve Jobs is ...
Great Moments In Pr: Control freak Steve Jobs's chaotic Macworld no-show news
valleywag.gawker.com — Steve Jobs is a famed perfectionist. The way word leaked out he wouldn't keynote at Macworld was anything but controlled, raising concerns that his health had taken an unexpected turn . As with Sarah Palin's baby rumors, the scurrilous media forced ... (more) Great Moments In Pr: Control freak Steve Jobs's chaotic ...
Why Steve Really Isn’t Giving the Keynote
Why Steve Really Isn’t Giving the Keynote
macsoda.com — That looks an awful lot like Al Gore... When Apple announced that Steve Jobs wouldn’t be giving the MacWorld Keynote, the blogosphere went into a frenzy. The common consensus at the end of all the pandemonium was that Steve Jobs was on his ... (more) Why Steve Really Isn’t Giving the Keynote
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Steve Jobs' Health 'Totally Fine' -- CNBC (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Conflicting reports about Apple (AAPL) boss Steve Jobs' health: A "solid" Gizmodo source says Jobs' health, not politics, is the reason why Jobs is ...

Gizmodo says Steve Jobs' health going south...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — This is the kind of thing we hate to report but since we've got so much vested in Apple...(we know his health is his own business - this is more what we'd like to think) -but here goes from Gizmodo: According to a solid source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind MacWorld and Steve Jobs' keynote cancellation. The real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we ever imagined: Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs ...

RUMOR: Steve Jobs’ health declining rapidly, reason for MacWorld Expo cancellation - Gizmodo
MacDailyNews — ... is a no-go anymore. No more Steve means no more hype. Saying they are no longer needing [MacWorld] is the cover designed by the worldwide "loyalty" department. Diaz reports, "This source has repeatedly been 100% correct before. Those times, however, were always related to news and images of unreleased Apple products. I can only hope that, in this more personal matter, it is absolutely wrong and this just means that Steve Jobs is retiring according to his plan." Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: "I can tell you that sources inside the company tell me that Jobs' decision ...

AAPL Sauce
Digital Daily — ... 3 days of gains gone in just two minutes. That’s what happened to Apple (AAPL) shares today after Gizmodo published a rumor suggesting Steve Jobs’s declining health is the real reason he won’t deliver the keynote at Macworld 2009. Apple hasn’t yet commented on the report, nor has anyone that could reasonably verify it. And they almost certainly won’t; Apple’s longstanding company line has always been “Steve’s health is a private matter.” And anyone close enough to Jobs to comment on such rumors with any degree of ...

Gadget blog juices fears over Steve Jobs' health
AppleInsider — ... 03:00 PM EST Gadget blog Gizmodo is causing a stir this afternoon with a new report alleging that Apple has mislead the public about the reasons behind its exit from Macworld Expo, claiming Steve Jobs' deteriorating health is to blame for the matter. The online publication cites a source which has reportedly been "100% correct" when providing information and photographs of unreleased Apple products in the past. This source is now said to have passed on information charging Apple with misrepresenting the reasons behind its pullout from future Macworlds and the cancelation ...

Rumor: Jobs Health Behind Macworld Expo Keynote Change
The Mac Observer — Rumor: Jobs Health Behind Macworld Expo Keynote Change by on December 30th, 2008 at 6:29 PM The rumor mill is working overtime leading up to Macworld Expo, and the latest tidbit seems to indicate that Apple may have misrepresented its reasons for handing over keynote presentation duties to Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. According to Gizmodo , Mr. Jobs is suffering from rapidly declining health, and the company is trying to control when that information is publicly released. An unidentified source apparently told Gizmodo "Steve's ...

Not For Nothing, Gizmodo's Sources Trump CNBC's
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Then, after Gizmodo, Gawker Media's gadget blog, reported that a source who " has repeatedly been 100% correct before" told them that Jobs was skipping Macworld due to his health, Goldman got on TV and said: ...

A Letter From Steve Jobs
Technologizer — As I’ve said before, I’m neither a doctor nor an Apple shareholder, and there are few things more personal than one’s health. So I don’t like talking about Steve Jobs’ physical condition–especially when the only thing there is to write about is gossip . In fact, I don’t think I’ve written a single post that was principally about the subject. But now Jobs has published a ...

Steve Jobs: Hormone Imbalance is to blame for the Weight Loss; Recovering; to Remain CEO
iPhone Hacks — ... . They had also announced that Steve Jobs will not be delivering the last keynote at the show. They said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing will be giving it instead. This had triggered rumors across the blogosphere that the reason for Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote address was due to his worsening health while there were some who reported that ...

Steve Jobs: Hormone Imbalance is to blame for the Weight Loss; Recovering; to Remain CEO
iPhone Hacks — ... . They had also announced that Steve Jobs will not be delivering the last keynote at the show. They said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing will be giving it instead. This had triggered rumors across the blogosphere that the reason for Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote address was due to his worsening health while there were some who reported that ...

Apple comes clean on concerns over Jobs’ health
APC — ... itself makes excellent and quite timely reading ) Two weeks after Apple revealed that for the first time in over a decade Jobs would not present his annual Macworld keynote, Gizmodo tipped his “rapidly declining health” as the real reason, or at least one of the reasons, for the decision. This set off a further bout of speculation which Apple is now seeking to smother on the eve of Macworld.

Steve Jobs’ Health
Elliott C. Back — ... This comes in response to a post on Gizmodo, Steve Jobs’ Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for Macworld Cancellation, which alleges that “Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple when the inevitable news comes later this spring.” ...

'Fake Steve' chides CNBC's Goldman in source foofaraw
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... bureau chief Jim Goldman for withholding information from sources inside Apple about Steve Jobs' health. The sparks fly in this video around the 3:30 mark. Lyons, on CNBC Reports, said Goldman had become the kind of reporter that gets "played and punked" by Apple, and that he should have released the information he knew on Monday, before Apple's announcement yesterday. Lyons also demanded that Goldman apologize to Gizmodo, for criticizing their December 30 story about Jobs' declining health. Goldman said that he had contacted two ...

'Fake Steve' chides CNBC's Goldman in source foofaraw
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... bureau chief Jim Goldman for withholding information from sources inside Apple about Steve Jobs' health. The sparks fly in this video around the 3:30 mark. Lyons, on CNBC Reports, said Goldman had become the kind of reporter that gets "played and punked" by Apple, and that he should have released the information he knew on Monday, before Apple's announcement yesterday. Lyons also demanded that Goldman apologize to Gizmodo, for criticizing their December 30 story about Jobs' declining health. Goldman said that he had contacted two ...

Last Minute Rumor Updates on Apple WWDC ‘09 [Wwdc09]
IPhone news, updates and Iphone information — ... Just with the new iPhone, an updated iPod touch, and Snow Leopard, WWDC 09 will be a solid show. One that everyone interested in these technologies should be excited about. But the thing I'm really hoping for is not hardware or software. I wish that, at the end of his presentation, Phil Schiller will pronounce the magic words, the classic "one more thing," and Steve Jobs would appear on stage, smiling and visibly recovered from his lastest health woes. That, more than anything else, would be amazingly good news for the tech world. ...

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