Steve Jobs' health

I'm not sure what to think of Nocera's description of his off the record conversation with Steve Jobs. I'd love to hear what Jobs thinks about it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/business/26nocera.html?pagewanted=all

TALKING BUSINESS
Apple’s Culture of Secrecy

By JOE NOCERA
Published: July 26, 2008

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On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter” — and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs called me. “This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” After that rather arresting opening, he went on to say that he would give me some details about his recent health problems, but only if I would agree to keep them off the record. I tried to argue him out of it, but he said he wouldn’t talk if I insisted on an on-the-record conversation. So I agreed.

Because the conversation was off the record, I cannot disclose what Mr. Jobs told me. Suffice it to say that I didn’t hear anything that contradicted the reporting that John Markoff and I did this week. While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than “a common bug,” they weren’t life-threatening and he doesn’t have a recurrence of cancer. After he hung up the phone, it occurred to me that I had just been handed, by Mr. Jobs himself, the very information he was refusing to share with the shareholders who have entrusted him with their money.

You would think he’d want them to know before me. But apparently not.

 

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If you're going to burn that bridge, best to go out in style.

 

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January 6, 2009
Apple’s Jobs Explains His Weight Loss

By BRAD STONE
SAN FRANCISCO — Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, sought to put to rest persistent speculation about his health on Monday, disclosing in a public letter that a hormone problem — and not a recurrence of cancer — had contributed to his very visible weight loss over the last year.

Mr. Jobs lamented that his decision not to give his usual keynote address at the annual Macworld Expo this week in San Francisco “set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.”

But Mr. Jobs, 53, said that doctors had recently diagnosed a “hormone imbalance” that was depleting proteins in his body as the cause of his weight loss. The remedy, he said, “is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/technology/companies/06apple.html

 

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Leave of absence thru June. Says health issues worse than he initially thought:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/14/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm

 

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JOBS' HEALTH

 

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My job's health is pretty shaky.

 

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Why is Steve Jobs' health a thread subject on SportsJournalists.co?

 

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Why not?

 

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Who is Steve Job?

 

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This is cancer and there isn't a single doubt about it.

 

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Of course, a week or so ago it was a hormone imbalance. :

But I agree -- it's cancer. Probably related to the pancreatic cancer he was diagnosed with in '03. Apparently his own body is immune to the legendary Steve Jobs "reality distortion field."



Here's the Gizmodo report from Dec. 30 calling Jobs' health into question; it was studied, decried, refuted and now back on the table.

Apple stock is going to get hit hard over the next 18 hours. (1stADD: AAPL is down over $6, or 7 percent of its at-close value, in after-hours trading.) Apple has always been at its best with Jobs in charge.

 

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Damn, that sucks. Fuck cancer.