Comments on: Steve Jobs' health: Where's that SEC probe?

By: Gloria, Carrboro, NC

Gloria, Carrboro, NC — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:29:08 +0000

Another poster comments that maybe Kennedy didn't like what he heard in Boston and so went to Duke for his brain surgery. No, Duke is the best in the world for brain surgery treatment, with the doctor who operated on Kennedy having just developed a more successful technique that no one else in the world uses.

Kennedy didn't have access to the world's best brain docs in Boston, he went to Duke so he could have that.

By: Scott Fulmer Banf Alberta Canada

Scott Fulmer Banf Alberta Canada — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:50:50 +0000

It is NOBODDYS business what ANYONE has going on with there personal health and treatment. Issues about treatment are between the subject and the doctors treating them this inclueds Steve Jobs or M Jackson. The Public has NO Right to know about Your health or treatmeant unless YOU decide to tell them. The Press certainly has no right to publish it.

By: Frank Z, Fairfield, CT

Frank Z, Fairfield, CT — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:33:47 +0000

Ummmm… In case you didn't notice. Steve Jobs was NOT CEO at the time of his transplant so there's no need for any type of investigation. If shareholders want to sell if the non-CEO dies, that's on them. Nice try but no cigara…

By: KenC, Gardiner, Maine

KenC, Gardiner, Maine — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:17:49 +0000

Anyone who has had a sick loved one or who is in the medical profession knows that 9 days, is plenty of time for a diagnosis to change dramatically. What was once simple, can suddenly become complex. What was once harmless, can suddenly be life-threatening. What was thought to be the problem can turn out to just be another sympton. Medical opinions from leading physicians can differ dramatically. Look at Ted Kennedy, he has access to many of the world's leading brain surgeons in Boston, and yet he chose to go to Duke to have his surgery. Maybe he didn't like the medical opinions he was getting in Boston and decided to go where he got a medical opinion he liked. It happens.

By: Randy B

Randy B — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:59:17 +0000

The CEO of a publically traded company is no different than the health and emotional welfare of an elected public official. The governor of South Carolina is a good example. When you agree to take millions of dollars in exchange for that trust, it is that trust that we shareholders expect.

By: Brian, Irvine CA

Brian, Irvine CA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:19:52 +0000

For months, Connie Guglielmo of Bloomberg has been on a one-person witch hunt about Steve Jobs. Let's face it: she wants him dead. I would love to see someone do a hit piece on her. I have come to wonder if:

A. Steve Jobs did something to upset her, and she's made it a personal vendetta or

B. She's on Steve Ballmer's payroll

If you read all of her stories about Steve Jobs, one thing is clear: Connie Guglielmo has lost all objectivity. And for any decent journalist, objectivity is supposedly the prime directive.

Even if a journalist is completely wrong or worse, if the journalist is corrupt, the very fact that they can publish a story and have it show up in Google News is tantamount to declaring the subject of the story as guilty. Besides responding to a story (and often, the responses are nuked by the publication), what recourse does the public have? Answer: none. The media can decide who it wants to destroy. In a series of accusatory articles dripping with often false assertions and innuendo, people like Connie Guglielmo can destroy lives and careers.

THAT is why I have come to regard most journalists with such hatred and distrust. Journalists are accountable to no one. They can launch campaigns to destroy companies and with it, countless jobs, marriages and lives. All it takes is a sensational headline, a collection of action verbs and an imagination.

Don't think we don't notice. If you're like me, you resent being played for a sucker. We're not. Perhaps that is why so many publications are failing.

By: Barry, Erie PA

Barry, Erie PA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:11:58 +0000

What a waste of time to publish this insipid article. From the time period at issue 1/4/08-1/15/08 aapl has climbed from 78.20 to 135.80 today. So, clearly the issue of Jobs health has not diluted shareholder value–in fact quite the opposite. To fully comprehend the integrity and credibility of Bloomberg with respect to Jobs and Apple, just remember that about a year ago they printed Jobs obituary. This suggests a question that one might consider (the answer I do not claim to know or even suggest). Is that type of erroneous reporting of a material fact (that seemingly immediately impacts a stocks price) merely an err, or, should it be subject of an SEC investigation?

By: Kaneda

Kaneda — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:07:17 +0000

A lot of probing lately on Apple..

AT&T & Apple partnership

and now Steve Jobs's health?

By: realitybites, NYC, NY

realitybites, NYC, NY — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:07:11 +0000

You really take imbecile to the next level.

Apple has not lost money for any shareholder since, perhaps never.

In an economy which is failing everywhere on the planet Apple is succeeding, making money and excelling but for some reason that offends your zeal for mediocrity, that's not good enough for you.

This is an age where for some reason, only Apple is providing design and technical excellence in all of their products and are being rewarded for it with continuing sales and profitability.

They are the point man in most of the newest innovations being presented in the cell phone and personal computing industries, you're still not satisfied.

Their company is paying for all of that technical innovation that everyone is taking advantage of now but that's not enough for you.

You would prefer Acer or Dell like design excellence in your computing and music products?

How about the newest Motorola innovations in your cell phone experience, bet you can't name the last innovative idea they had and marketed.

Steve's health issues are covered by existing Federal HIPPA laws which take precedence over SEC regulations.

And you and Connie Guglielmo, David Scheer and Karen Gullo (team of pandering click-idiots) and really nothing more than bloggers trolling for clicks with misleading headlines and no news worth talking about.

Complete idiots, the lot.

By: Seattle WA

Seattle WA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:03:55 +0000

You write, in your typical Jim Goldman-esque cheerleading yet accusatory style:

"Given that her sources had nothing new to say about the SEC review, it’s not clear why Guglielmo chose to revisit the story today, less than two weeks before Apple is scheduled to release earnings for what analysts think will be a strong quarter."

Maybe because she's trying to get some answers to the deception created by the "above the law" Apple cult.

As an earlier poster commented, concentrate on your own reporting rather than whining about someone taking on the cult.