ex ped: Jobs was treated for pancreatic cancer four years ago. The question is whether it has returned or is there is some other explanation for his recent weight loss.

You'd have to say the writing is on the wall for this blog. *cough*

Regarding the fate of the divine being, my own view is that he is incredibly ashamed that the iPhone can't tether, and so he cannot bring himself to address the faithful. And he would be heckled by angry developers because of the farce over iPhone policy. That would look bad, like the Pope being called a dirty old man during Christmas mass.

But it could be his health. The lord works in mysterious ways, and HE may have decided that Jobs breached the terms of his probation by engaging in tax farming with AT&T.

I will pray for his soul, and for Apple products generally.

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They have no major product announcement. I would be a sad ending to their Macworld participation to have Jobs not have 'just one more thing'.

Perhaps they were planning to announce products that are running behind on development or are being re thought based on the economic climate.

In terms of late notice, it may a Jobs call. He's known as a perfectionist.

The people who think Steve is sick are sick in the head. It's clear that Steve knows what his fiduciary responsibility is, and would announce if he had some physical issue that would not let him perform his duties.

Steve is just in his "think different" mode.

If you do a little research you should be able to find a story or two written over the last couple of decades that talk about the grueling schedules that go into putting together a Steve Jobs keynote. Literally dozens of people are pulled off whatever they are working on to concentrate on the keynote. Jobs spends 40 to 60 hours/week to 2 to 4 weeks getting what he wants, getting things polished, getting the guests that he wants, getting them trained to his standards — and then he polishes and tweaks and rewrites and sometimes replaces large sections right up until the presentation itself.

By the time it's all said and done, a Steve Jobs keynote sometimes touches the efforts of hundreds of Apple developers scrambling to ensure that there is something to show. A half-dozen developers and a dozen testers might work ridiculous hours for two weeks to ensure that a single feature works flawlessly. While graphic designers ensure that each slide is perfect. With Steve Jobs making sure that he likes where things are headed.

The 90 minutes are nothing. But there are man-years of effort behind each of those 90 minutes.

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He was drafting his presentation using "Keynote" when Software Update notified him to install the 10.5.6 update. When he did so, his Mac crashed.

Thus, he threw out his Macbook, went to Costco, bought a Dell, and became a Vista fanboy.

Mystery solved.