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Steve Jobs steps aside for health reasons
APPLE SHARES will no doubt plunge as will the hearts of many a fanboi at the news that fruit themed company leader Steve Jobs is having to step aside due to health reasons.
The recipient of a liver transplant in 2009, Jobs has looked painfully thin since his surgery and perhaps the stress of too much success with the Ipad and Iphone 4 has got the better of him.
The text of the email sent to employees is below. µ
January 17, 2011
Apple Media Advisory
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:
Team,
At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.
I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple's day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011.
I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.
Steve
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Maybe iDictator's body is just holding that jailbroken iLiver wrong.
Those darn proprietary body parts!
Karma, is there an App for that?
On purely commercial grounds, it's the correct decision, since the successor products, iPhone 5 and iPad 2 are probably already prepared, and nothing really innovates needs to flow from the house of Apple for the next two years, which would require Steve's personal supervision.
I agree with Steve T.: I do understand that many people are upset with the way Steve Jobs has "imposed his will" on his vulnerable customers (via strict authoritarian control), and on his vulnerable competitors (via aggressive business tactics and continuous legal and PR attacks).
However, when Steve J.'s health takes a turn for the worse, to emulate his example and attack him when he is vulnerable just shows how effectively this kind of attitude has been propagated and internalized by many.
Mental health is linked to physical health. The strictly self-serving, aggressive, predatory attitude of most big corporations is the mental-health equivalent of a cancer, which will tend to spread unchecked until it is stopped or it destroys that which feeds it.
"Coincidentally", our planet just happens to have been badly damaged by corporate greed. Thinking in this way also puts you at risk of all kinds of disorders (including cardiovascular disease, reduced immune response...and certain cancers).
Not to wish anyone to experience suffering would perhaps be the higher road to take here. Perhaps also learning from others' misfortune that life is not a "zero-sum game", but that we can all be better off (physically and mentally) by cooperating with and respecting each other.
@dave vlack for example. You think he's been faking having his pancreas removed and a liver transplant so he won't be blamed 'cause Apple aren't innovating any more? Firstly at the CEO level in a company like this they're looking 2 - 3 years ahead and the markets know this. If the product stream dries up short of that time he won't get away with it. Secondly if he wanted to stop working all he had to do was announce his retirement. He's got more than enough money to do that any time he wants (and Apple pay him a nominal $1 plus use of a private jet, he could buy his own out of pocket change).
@mycello perhaps he doesn't want to hand his medical records over the world. Is that unreasonable? In many (if not all) regions of the world that's a legal entitlement not a vague expectation. You want the world to see your medical files (complete with details of that nasty rash and being sectioned under the mental health act)?
VANSHARDWARE FINALLY DID HIM IN.
ON ANOTHER NOTE, WHAT THE HELL DOES ANY OF THIS GOT TO DO WITH GEOHOT AND TEAM OVERFLOW COMPLETELY CRACKING THE PS3?
You know, he always tells that his systems are virus-proof!
And what the hell he means with this "respect my privacy" thing? Probably because it has nothing to do with health at all? Or is he just about to die?
@dave vlack
Indeed.
"health" reasons is just a cover up for the real reason.
Steve [blow] Jobs knows he has nothing innovating up he sleeve to keep his competition at bay. Also, there are only so many apple fanboys so apple market is now saturated.
Steve [Blow] Jobs knows that Apple is about to start a downward trend, and he wants to step down so that when shit hits the fan, he can say it wasn't his fault. Better yet, he can say Apple went down because he wasn't there, thus further stroking his ego.
Having seen the approaching iceberg, he's stepping into the Titanic's first raft instead of trying to steer the ship away from the collision.
What a sore looser that guy is.
your brown-nosing comments are physically sickening
this man is responsible for peddling over-priced, under-performing hardware with draconian restrictions. he has no conscience for doing this so it can be seen as divine retribution.
personally, i wouldnt wish ill-health on the man (maybe other, more fitting punishments) but i have no sympathy for any greedy money-loving dregs that the world can function without
"Too bad Steve Jobs hardware wasn't designed to be easily replaced or updated."
"Jobs was shocked to find that his doctors were charging him a premium for procedures that looked good, but but sub-par quality."
"I thought only Windows users got sick."
Get well soon Steve.We need you because you have changed the landscape of IT and directly and indirectly led the wave of innovation.I am a fan of Steve.You are a fighter.I know you will be back with big smile
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I am not a big fan of Apple or Steve Jobs but wish him the best what ever his problem is. All that money can get you the best medical care but can't stop disease from starting. So if your healthy you might be one up on Steve and even us poor folks have something to be happy about.
... put down the voodoo doll, it's not funny anymore.
On the serious side, this is the worst moment for Jobs to "step aside", as the mobile os war is at it's climax. I just saw the Motorola Altrix and said to myself "steve jobs will have a hard time competing with that", not to mention the HTC Desire Z/HD who closely match and exceed the iphone.