Comments on: Steve Jobs' health: What's going on

By: Steve Wozjobs, Cupertino, California

Steve Wozjobs, Cupertino, California — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:08:40 +0000

Everybody is talking about a neoplastic pancreatic condition. The most frequent pancreatic malignancy is ductal carcinoma. Let's suppose he does not suffer from that condition and that, as he says, he has a tumoral endocrine pancreatic disease which is treatable. In that case we look for diseases like MEN (multiple endocrine neoplasia) Type I (MEN I). With symptoms provoking chronic diarrhea, weight loss with tumors of the parathyroid glands, pancreatic islet cells and hypofisis. Sometimes most of the pancreas must be removed in order to control the endocrine symptoms. The disease is longlasting and death can happen in cases of complications. Is he suffering from Insulinoma ?, or a gastrin pruducing tumor of the pancreas ? Who knows, is one of those his condition ? Are they hiding a more frequent and severe disease like ductal carcinoma because of Apple stock price. The insiders are the only people aware of the truth. By the way a Whipple procedure is a type of surgery in which the pancreas and the duodenum are radically removed. It is mostly used to treat pancreatic cancer with the intention to cure.

By: Lori, Brandon, Mississippi

Lori, Brandon, Mississippi — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:18:21 +0000

As a simpleton from the south, someone PLEASE explain to me why the sky would fall if something is, indeed, wrong with Steve Jobs?!? God forbid, but is he actually the ONLY person who could run Apple? Wall Street is full of nuts!

By: Allan, Vancouver, Washington

Allan, Vancouver, Washington — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:51:07 +0000

Yah, that Apple could run on without Mr. Jobs was what they said 15 years ago and we all know how that went.

No Jobs – and Apple will soon be another for profit American company that is going nowhere but out of business!

By: Dan Cordoba Austin, Tx

Dan Cordoba Austin, Tx — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:04:21 +0000

who is ex ped?

ex ped: Sorry. It's short-hand for "from Philip Elmer-DeWitt."

By: Patrick, Chicago IL

Patrick, Chicago IL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:08:09 +0000

Unbelievable. Hired a private investigator to tail Jobs on his way to doctors appointments… Wow. I hope all that money is worth the cost of your dignity.

By: Tom Pham, Sugar Land, Texas

Tom Pham, Sugar Land, Texas — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:49:20 +0000

I think that the REPORTERS are beating a death horse. This keeps resurfacing…..at the benefit of the hedge fund managers who are shorting the stock ????? Also, comments like the belows should be included to be fair and thus keep the reporters being neutral:

"Jobs has so effectively turned his charisma and personality traits into business processes of Apple that he could easily step away and the company would continue to function quite well without him," said Leander Kahney, editor of Wired.com and author of "Inside Steve's Brain", a book about the Apple leader.

"Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, whose laconic Southern style distinguishes him from the intense Jobs, has won praise from analysts for his firm grasp of day-to-day operations, and is thought to be a likely successor".

"Jobs may be the public face of products like the iPod, but it is Apple's top-flight design team led by Jonathan Ives that is responsible for the iconic shapes of the company's computers and gadgets".

"Steve clearly is the voice of the company, but it would be a big mistake to state that he's the only one driving the vision of Apple," said Tim Bajarin, head of Creative Strategies, a consultancy.

By: ieda /rio de janeiro/brasil

ieda /rio de janeiro/brasil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:25:57 +0000

Eu não sabia nem seu nome Steve Jobs ,

sou da sua idade (fiz 53 anos em 30 de maio)

resolvi escrever pq minha família materna tem histórico da câncer e meu pai também teve cancer(83 anos e está vivo).Eu ouvi e acredito nisso: Deixe tudo que aborrece e o preocupa .Vá fazer alguma coisa que o deixe bem feliz ,aliás muitas coisas.

Que um anjo bom esteja ao seu lado.

IEDA

By: Hardhead, Uijongbu, South Korea

Hardhead, Uijongbu, South Korea — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:14:37 +0000

"One hedge fund hired a private detective to tail Jobs."

Well, I would like to donate to any hitman that would "stalk" not harm the hedge funds. TiT-for-TaT

But some like oil marketer SemGroup who filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing among other things a loss of at least $2.4 billion in crude oil futures – - HA no speculation in the markets – - just shoot themselves in the foot sooner or later.

By: cynik, switzerland

cynik, switzerland — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:44:19 +0000

"But a little disclosure on that front might go a long way to calming Wall Street’s rattled nerves."

God forbid that the speculators on Wall street should get nervous in their greed for profit.

Look, let us get something clear, OK? Folks admire Jobs because he built something. Out of nothing. He created. He still creates. He took an idea and made it change the world.

These folks who speculate on Apple stock, they are the very opposite of what Steve Jobs represents. They sit and watch others, hoping for a chance to make some money by betting the right way. The don't want to create anything, they don't want to build anything. They just want more money. So they can chase more money.

There is something profoundly ghoulish and wretched about appealing to someone like Jobs to calm the nerves of so many vultures who feed from his work and who clearly do not represent what he has stood for his whole life. For the record, America was built by men like Jobs, and Europe was made lame by speculators.

By: joe ny,ny

joe ny,ny — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:49:37 +0000

They should freeze steve like they did walt disney..