My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here - Robert Burns
STEVE JOBS is apparently planning to do what no other Messiah has done before him - he is planning to quit.
Normally the way for those to leave a religious cult they have created is to be nailed up, shot, get arrested, or die in office, but the dark satanic rumour mill is suggesting that Steve is planning to just walk away from the Apple cult he created.
The people at Gizmodo have been going over the transcripts of the last time Steve took to the stage to present the new same-as-the-old-one-but-this-is-aluminium MacBook to the cheers of the faithful.
They say there are signs that Steve is getting ready to ascend, if not to heaven, at least to a nice retirement home.
The first sign is economic ruin, the next is a comet, the third is the establishment of a One World government based in Rome and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
No, not really. The signs apparently included Steve telling the zealots at the conference that Apple is more than himself and introducing his disciples, sorry his staff.
According to Gismodo it was a bit like Christ allocating new jobs after his crucifiction with Peter getting the top job in Rome which ultimately ended up with a big church next to the INQ's Roman office being staffed by a former member of the Hitler Youth.
Unlike Christ's disciples, who got called Christians, Steve's are going to be known as "the guys, the Goodfellas, the A-Team".
He said that the Guys share the same vision he has and are going to push the company forward when "I change my office chair for a hammock and caipirinhas on my private beach in Hawaii".
Tim Cook took the stage wearing Steve's sacred colour scheme of blue jeans and black top. To watchers of other religions this is the same as collecting the Pope's mitre or kissing Steve Jobs' ring.
According to Gizmodo this symbolically puts Cook on the same level as the thin white duke and eases the future potential power transition in the minds of the faithful.
While it is possible that Jobs' is not dying, he has had the realisation that there is more to life than flogging expensive toys to spotty smug gits and it is time to spend some of the money he has earned enjoying himself, before it is too late. µ
L'Inq
Gizmodo
Still I wouldn't advise drinking the punch at the going away party.

Now there's a treacherous pun calculated to get on the wick of the Christies...
The first sign is economic ruin, the next is a comet, the third is the establishment of a One World government based in Rome and the rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem I have to say I am shocked. Ya got it all right except the comet. Its actually a Saturn like planet. That is in the Nemesis system which is the sister star to our binary Sun . Shocking isn't it. In the very far southern regions of earth its now visiable . Fact is there are pics of it on the net. But you won't here anyone reporting on it for awhile . Thing is will all see it around june of 09 . Thats when all hell breaks lose and Rome comes back into power only to be destroyed by a metor some time later. But you also failed to say that the present pope dies shortly and is replaced by Peter of Rome . The LAST pope.
i forgot . isn't gates retiring also. Strange all rich guys heading for the underground fortress befor all hell breaks loose.
What kind of retard are you?

I guess you havent bothered to watch any of the past events huh? They have always had other members of the Apple team present during the events. I hope you aren't getting your "scoops" from thestreet.com. They employ 15 yr old relatives to do their "reporting". Go back and watch the last 10 Apple events and tell me this event was something different.
"...INQ's Roman office being staffed by a former member of the Hitler Youth..."

I knew His Holiness needed a second gig, but working for the INQ? Employed by the dark powers of Beezlebub? Does the Holy Catholic Church know he's cheating on them?

INQ must pay well, though, have you seen Benny's digs? Talk about plush!

(I'm a loyal Roman Catholic, so I can make jokes about my Church. You heathen Protestants and atheists, you can shut the hell up.)
<I will be the first to say what the macolytes of the church of his jobnessesss with soon be shouting...

"LIES!! these are lies made by heretical Psystar scum">

It'll be interesting how Apple will fair in the future without both of the two Steves (Wozniak and Jobs). Jobsy in particular has cut himself into the same mold as Robert Mugabe and Kim Jong Il i.e So much depends on his presence that the without him the whole organisation could very well fall apart.

My bet is on Apple open-sourcing OSX and consentrating on making money on hardware and IP royalties.
Complementary sets are bonded pairs [of double-edged swords]. One cannot exist without the other no matter how one tries to separate them. This is because one originates from the other even though outwardly, one seems to be just the opposite of the other. Humans have such dichotomies within their endeavours because they have the freedom to think projectively otherwise known as the intellect. The ability to destroy ALL [and not merely another] necessitates a backdoor to switch-off the screw-cum-nut.

Within a spinning wheel, there is a centrifugal and a centripetal with the anchor point being in the middle of the maelstrom. This absolute/balancing point has no movement even when the wheel is spinning. Human behaviours have an individualistic envelope [aura] beyond which one can be spun out of the “wheel” or comes crashing to the centre, refusing to budge. Such out-of-control/touch imbalances are our addictions and is when we have lost our roots/gravity/innocence.

As such, having dichotomies is Nature’s way of allowing us to balance ourselves which are impossibilites in reality because we do not even realise/conscious that we are actually addicted though we do know-it-all. The essence of Reality is for people to realise that they can do nothing real except existing in our ping-pong universes of going nowhere though the projectionists/futurists within us think that we are actually going somewhere real. Like in technology or the contemporary replacement for religion, socialogy/social-sciences be it called some political name like democracy/democratic, etc.

Addiction leads to illnesses which is the body’s/Nature’s way of telling us that we are badly in the wrong path and have actually spun out-of-control/our-aura. We are actually in “others’” territory/environment, whatsoever/whomsoever these entities may be. Now, through the religon of technology, be it the “leftie” or the “rightie” version, we can turn to pills, butchery and when all else fails, back to basics – but not when you do not even know what the basics are. Talking into the latest mobile comms gadget without a connection is delusion and illusion – unless you are a human star illuminating the path deeper into the dungeon for your mesmerised tag-alongs. Sadly, substance-less saviours are being born every second within most.

In reality, no one needs to know who or what the other is or has done but then, how will most derive the meaning to existence if soaps and the living of others’ lives is not on the cards. That’s why we have 2 inherent positions to offer us a balance point at every step of the “way” even if we were to be dragged screaming to our sleep. There is no cure for addictions until we realise that we are not our own but are actually existing for some other/s. Addictions can only be relinquished when we become truthful/desirous-of-reality or when we replace it with a higher-order addiction but by that time, the body might decide to call it a day. 

A control is merely an abandonment at some other time and that is the true meaning of time. Timing/oscillation/”vibrations” and not the play of Infinity like in gazing at the stars or the source of The Big Bang. When one is into control, reverting to abandonment is merely changing roles within the same play and as we all know, a play is just a merry-go-round of constantly changing roles. When a flea is biting the buttock, one either finds the flea and removes it or relishes the itch and the pain. Ethier way, it would be benevolent to first identify the flea, which we all know, is not physical but behaviourial when it comes to mental patients. 

Reality is neither aggression/an-accelerator/control/a-saviour nor is it depression/a-brake/abandonment/worship but complementing both with the view of binning them. You either have joy or excitements but not both. When a receptor within the body receives its complement, only then can the message be relayed/a throughput be effected. Enforced bombardment of receptors, be it through quackery or through behaviourial demands, leads to addictions whilst not forgetting that only the real Time Lord holds the key to Balance/balancing-compementaries which will lead to throughput and not induce accumulations. Love is free and anything that charges beyond the effort through one’s love, is sheer quackery with the consequences exposed as such. “Not when we have technology and Martian explorations, after having saved The Earth and discovered the source of The Big Bang, dear fruit-of-the-nut”…. ‘but can you extract that flea embedded in my ……?’ Since when did Adam & Eve stopped biting the Apple ? Nevahh ...for such is addicition
"flogging expensive toys to spotty smug gits " lol
Jesus wept can you can almost taste the hatred! pmsl

Jesus Apple only as 5% of the world market WHY DO YOU CARE!!! I means its 95% Windows PC's etc so they are an irrelevance, so why do you care so much about such a little company??
Its' SAD Sight to See, Sadder than if msr. Jobs' Lite Up On Stage. Hey, Whats Little Medical Marihuana for Aged?

With Own Rolling Paper Line, J<>B, Steves in Smooth Position to Take Over Earth thru Imagination, Now Real Works Done, Jobs' Just Wanna Have Fun.
Drashek
Isn't Steve Jobs just a bootnote in PC history? I doubt anyone really cares about him or Apple. His leaving means little to society or the PC industry.
He has already achieved his goal. Let him go.
Steve Jobs may be surprised to learn that there is no such thing as a private beach in Hawaii.

By law, all coastline to the highest wash of waves at high tide during the highest surf season, "usually evidenced by the edge of vegetation or by the line of debris left by the wash of the waves" is public property in Hawaii.
Protestants aren't heathens, they're heretics and should be cast before the lions. Or something.