STEVE JOBS has but a short time left to live, according to the not so trusted but certainly fair and balanced National Enquirer tabloid.
In no way linked to The INQUIRER, the US broadsheet, famous for stories such as 'I gave birth to a fish', claims that the founder and head of Apple has only six weeks to live.
This prediction is based on photos of Jobs outside the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California that show him appearing even thinner than he has been since his 2008 liver transplant due to pancreatic cancer.
A month ago Jobs announced he was stepping aside from the day-to-day tasks of running Apple for health reasons. He might be attending the Stanford Cancer Center for further treatment.
His email to Apple staff at the time said, "my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy", but it appears The National Enquirer didn't get that memo.
The INQUIRER has been unable to get any comment from the maker of shiny toys, as the UK Apple press office is not answering the phone or emails.
The Daily Mail, which has apparently seen The National Enquirer article despite the tabloid's website being geographically locked to the USA, reports that the weekly newspaper says only 4 per cent of pancreatic cancer sufferers live longer than five years.
The Stanford Cancer Center is where actor Patrick Swayze sought chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer before his death last year. µ
While I'm really about to die, I would appreciate some privacy.
That some rich as hell person starts harassing the crap out of some of the media?
It couldn't be that hard. Just find out who they are, and pay someone to follow them, take photos all the time - like at 7pm when they duck out for some milk. Hell, why not pay to print a few full page adverts detailing their celeb-chasing lives?
Jobs could do it. Easily. He's basically GOT a media empire now. Make the chaser's lives a living hell until they get the message.
I don't particularly like Jobs. I have zero apple products, and zero likely hood of getting any. But a sick man deserves some peace and quiet with his family.
Any one morally bankrupt enough to chase down and harass a sick person deserves their lives to be legally tuned into a nightmare.
Yes Hell is and always will be shameless,thats what you get for being here!
When relatives, friends or colleagues of Steve Jobs read your re-hash of some baseless rumour, how do you think they will feel?
Or don't you care?
You only want to pull in some more readers and are willing to print anything to achieve this, is that it?
I think the ghost of Steve Jobs will stay in Cupertino Apple Offices long after he has gone. If you make a call on the iphone , the ghost will be watching how you use the phone. If you try to leave the walled garden or stop paying for its up keep you may get hallucinations and nightmares. The followers of the Jobs Cult and may beatify him to a Saint or a DemiGod. Therefore Caveat Emptor and remember 'the ghost is watching'.
The reality with this form of cancer is it's high mortality in a very short space of time. I lost an employee from this terrible disease, from diagnoses to conclusion he lasted a little over 4 months, a sad fact for someone in there mid 20's
Apple views aside, Steve Jobs and family have my sympathy
Meanwhile, in changes announced today, all souls proceeding to the afterlife will now be required to contribute 30% of their righteousness to the HeavenStore to gain entry. This applies irrespective of whether their religious content has been supplied directly by other religious providers...
whatever happens next, as soon as S.Jobs lands there, first thing first - he would acquire copyright to iGod and iHeaven...
I guess if God was a cellphone user he would be in the group that likes to be able to change the battery.
By the way, seems like Apple products not only are flawed and overpriced, they give you cancer too.
Hi Jobs:
Don't forget to tell your stories to GOD regarding what you best know to do:
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE.
Jobs don't really know anything about POLLUTION.
""Well one thing for sure, the one God model will be approved don't you think.""
Steve is just being promoted to ... iGod.
Or maybe the pearly gates need a spruce up and St Jobs can get some knocked up for less than God himself .. whether God will have nuff funds to pay for it after St jobs takes a cut is anyone's guess.
Will God survive do you think? Or is God already using Apple products and does not need to drink the Kool aid?
Maybe God's running for cover and hiding all the Android devices!! :-)
Well one thing for sure, the one God model will be approved don't you think.
Wall, if there's one thing you can say about Steve Jobs is, that he was in charge of his life, and whether he feels he has given enough devotion to either his company or family is up to him. If fate decrees his time is up, one can only hope he'll manage to spend the period remaining to him in the way he feels is most satisfying.
My thoughts exactly. The Inq simply reported what the Enq was reporting. Quoted the source, said it has a habit of making things up and then quoted some publicly available survival figures. They also attempted to contact Apple for their comment (which is exactly how you write a balanced report).
The fact that Apple can't be bothered to answer their PR phone line is not the Inqs fault.
The only slightly irreverent bit was the title and tag line.
If it's true you fanboiz should stop your whining and get building your shrine (sorry, enlarging it) to assist St Jobs in his travel through the pearly gates.
While I always thought I'd be the last person on Earth 'defending' the National Enquirer, kindly depart the late Jurassic for the present day: the bad old days of "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped On It" ended in 1967. Seriously. After losing a famed 1981 lawsuit by Carol Burnett, the Enquirer cleaned up its sleazy celebrity gossip act and, while still engaging in lowbrow chequebook journalism, tend to be self-preservationist scrupulous in their fact checking. In other words, a single short step up from Rupert Murdoch, and minus a Page 3 girl.
doesnt mean he isnt there :p
based on the principle of karma I just want to wish Stevie baby a "get well soon"
The article wasn't too bad, points out the shifty nature of the source, points out a notable fact about the survival chances, and the headline - which is not the same author traditionally on the inq - puts the right mood by making the whole subject a bit silly seeing it's from such an unreliable source, even though that source may actually be right.
journalism, the world's second oldest profession . . .
Hey,
Have you seen Mr. Jobs yourself? How can you publish a post like this?
How do you know he has only 6 weeks?
You are sick buddy. Get a life!
...with all the sins Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison & Steve Ballmer have on their souls I don't think any of them wud be meeting God any time soon :-P Woz maybe but not the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse :-)
I'm no fan of Apple or Steve Jobs... but this article is pointless and full of bad taste.
I hope Steve Jobs gets well soon.