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blog.wired.com - 1/15/2009

Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple

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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 thought." In the note, Jobs promised to ...

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The Apple Core:  More on Jobs’ medical leave of absence

MacDailyNews:  Analyst Roger Kay: ‘I think Steve Jobs has cancer… just look at the photos’

Ars Technica - Infinite Loop:  For Steve Jobs, we expect One More Thing

Macworld:  A new reality distortion field

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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 ... (more) Worldwide

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bloomberg.com - 1/15/2009

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— bloomberg.com — 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 ... (more) Exclusive

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newsweek.com - 1/16/2009

Lyons: The Media's Rotten Reporting on Apple | Newsweek Daniel Lyons | Techtonic Shifts

— newsweek.com — 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 ... (more) Lyons: The Media's Rotten Reporting on Apple | Newsweek ...

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  OK, the man is sick. Let's get on with our lives! He's leaving, it sucks, but is long in coming.

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More on Jobs’ medical leave of absence
The Apple Core — ... was the reason for his recent weight loss. A post on the Wired blog suggests that Jobs’ latest statement is unreliable and that his health may be worse that he’s letting on. Many have speculated that Jobs’ health was failing based on his recent weight loss leading ...

Analyst Roger Kay: ‘I think Steve Jobs has cancer… just look at the photos’
MacDailyNews — ... all the protestations, I think he has cancer. They talk about digestive this and digestive that, but ... forget all the buzz you're hearing. Just look at the photos,'" Chen reports. MacDailyNews Take: Wow. Just, wow. Chen continues, "Apple customers, journalists, bloggers, investors and analysts are hoping that Jobs is well and will retake the reins in the summer. Shortly after Jobs' announcement on Wednesday, Twitter lit up with "get well" wishes for the CEO. Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Medical diagnosis via photograph. Roger ought to go for the patent on that ...

For Steve Jobs, we expect One More Thing
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... of Apple, has actually been running the company for years. Instead of, you know, making cakes or grilling tofu burgers, or whatever it is that a COO who isn't being a COO does. Next they are going to reveal that the company's CFO has been overseeing the financial health of AAPL for years, quietly . On the bright side, at least Bloomberg didn't just come out and explicitly say, "Yeah, he's done for." That job was left to Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay, who talked to Wired . "Despite all the protestations, I think he has cancer. They talk about digestive this and ...

A new reality distortion field
Macworld — ... ," said the headline Friday. "According to people who are monitoring his illness," said the first paragraph's citation of sources. "Why don’t you guys leave me alone?" Jobs said to Bloomberg, presumably during an angry phone call to complain about Thursday's story.) In his wildly speculative story, Steve Jobs Probably Won’t Come Back to Apple — originally headlined simply "Steve Jobs Won't Come Back to Apple" (and yes, it's a bad sign when these stories keep getting new revisions, new bylines, and new headlines) — Wired’s Brian Chen quotes Dr. Alan Astrow, Director of ...