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TMZ publishes Steve Jobs photo


Ive and Jobs. Photo: TMZ.com

Ive and Jobs. Photo: TMZ.com

The celebrity gossip site TMZ.com has posted what it claims is an iPhone snapshot of Steve Jobs leaving Apple's (AAPL) Cupertino, Calif., campus Wednesday afternoon with Jonathan Ive, senior vice president for industrial design.

That would make it the first photograph of Apple's CEO published since his last public appearance nine months ago — at the unveiling of the aluminum unibody MacBooks in the company's Town Hall meeting rooms on October 14, 2008.

Jobs returned to work part time in June after a five and a half month medical leave, during which he received a liver transplant.

See also: Apple: 'Steve Jobs is back to work'

DEAR STEVE I'M SENDING A SPECIAL PRAYER AND BEST WISHES THAT FROM THIS DAY ON YOU'LL ONLY GET BETTER AND STRONGER, WHY PEOPLE WOULD SAY HURTFUL THINGS IS BEYOND ME.

Posted By GEORGE PECK,WINTER SPRINGS,FLORIDA: August 1, 2009 11:20 PM

I think the time to wear jeans and a black tutle neck are over. He should try a brown jedi-robe and there you go. Steve becomes the Obi Wan Kenobi of Tech Industry. Silly season is here, you can feel it. PED is googling Steve Jobs to find something to write about in his "column". I´m glad Steve´s ok though, he should bulk up a little bit more to skyrocket Apple stock.

Posted By Kunee Lingus, Sodoma CA: July 31, 2009 5:58 PM

Glad to hear he's doing well.

Posted By Ben Gebo: July 31, 2009 9:20 AM

Oh darn, he's still alive.
Well I supposed it's better that he is alive and suffering rather than dead and buried…
Payment for the misery, lies, and theft of my property by Steve's Apple Con-Puter and his gang of riff raff.

ex ped: Steve Jobs stole your property?

Posted By RememberMe, Sunnyvale: July 30, 2009 4:46 PM

Oh, and BTW, I said "kidney" in my original post. I misspoke; it was a new liver.

Posted By Sacto Joe, Sacramento, CA: July 30, 2009 1:22 PM

Looks like they were staging a photoshoot for the new Apple Abbey Road Album cover.

Posted By Steve, Portland, Oregon: July 30, 2009 1:21 PM

Atlanta, I disagree. This is not about Apple's "secrecy" – which by the way is a good thing (speaking as a stockholder) – but about the ghoulish nature of the news media, and our own ghoulish nature by extension. Michael Jackson's death was a media circus. Why? Because it sold, that's why. But you can't sell something that people don't want to buy.

We love our superstars, and sometimes we love them to death.

Posted By Sacto Joe, Sacramento, CA: July 30, 2009 1:19 PM

Sacto Joe,
you have to blame none other than Apple for these kind of stories. They encourage secrecy, allow hype. How often you see stories like Google founders spotted or Bill Gates spotted? remember they have great products too, there can be lot to be written about them (they had lot of good things/bad things happened in their lives/companies)

Posted By Atlanta: July 30, 2009 11:50 AM

Walter Permican, if it were your wife or daughter who'd received the new kidney, I SERIOUSLY DOUBT you'd be talking like that.

Get a life, you (insert personally preferred epithet).

Posted By Sacto Joe, Sacramento, CA: July 30, 2009 11:11 AM

I do get Apple, and I agree wit the other person, I hope Steve takes care of the family since he did get pushed pretty fast up in line……but, I have only Apple products and there staff is amazing……..I thought I broke my Iphone, rice and blow/dry fixed it………nice……..and my Ipod love it…….

Posted By eschella, Westampton, NJ: July 30, 2009 9:31 AM

TMZ how ghoulish.. congratulations TMZ you now compete with the Enquirer for inane and despicable coverage

Posted By Anonymous: July 30, 2009 9:07 AM

The only question people want the answer to is:

WHO WAS THE LIVER DONOR!!!!

I want to lay flowers at this person's grave. There should be a shrine, a temple – something – to honor this (I can only assume ardent Apple enthusiast's) sacrifice.

Posted By Walter Permican, Cambridge MA: July 30, 2009 7:32 AM
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Steve Jobs, goes the old joke at Apple, is surrounded by a reality distortion field; get too close and you might believe what he's saying. Apple has made believers out of millions of customers — and made a lot of investors rich — but Elmer-DeWitt believes that an ounce of skepticism never hurts when writing about the company. He should know. He's been covering Apple – and watching Steve Jobs operate — since 1982.
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