[macless]

Steve have a speedy recovery we still need you around.

[Kingteddybear]

amgpac said:

What kind of environment do we live in that requires that a "mogul" has to B.S. his way through the corporate world to keep from rocking the fing economic boat just because he's FU_G vulnerable like the rest of us mortals??!. This is nothing less than testimony to the immorality of greed that is Wall Street!

What a load of BS. If it wasn't for Wall Street, IPO's, and common stock shareholders you would be sending a money order by the postal service to a couple middle aged dudes working out of a garage that were advertising in Byte and hoping to get a motherboard back called an Apple I as leap up from a MITS Altair. Where the hell do you think the initial real money to create Apple or Microsoft came from? A bunch of independent mom and pop street corner computer shops barely making payroll, payables, and receivables. Think again and look toward venture capitalist and Wall Street for your answer.

If I am going to invest in a publicly held company then I damn sure have a right to know if the top executives are facing major health issues, especially if the company and CEO essentially thought of as one and the same.

If ignorance is bliss....

[robinsdave]

Best of luck and best wishes Steve, High tech and US economy at this moment needs people like you!

[kevphil]

He should be happy that his insurance plan didn't lock him into one substandard care provider. That would be bad.

Or that he coulln't afford health insurance at all, or was excluded due to pre-existing conditions.

[Terrin]

I have an idea, why report on this alleged story at all? The Wall Street Journal doesn't cite a source. There is a reason for this. First, Jobs wants his privacy. Second, his medical issues are protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. So, if there is a person who is leaking to the Wall Street Journal and that person isn't Jobs himself, he or she is doing it illegally. If anything, Macworld should be in Jobs' corner hammering the Wall Street Journal for publishing this at all.

All that is required of Jobs is to keep Apple's Board of Directors apprised of his ability to perform his duties. That is so the Board can determine if it is appropriate to keep him on.

[scottmyers]

Although health care is a private matter, it's true we all care about each other. ANd of course we al care about someone as substantive as Steve Jobs. I DO pray for his health, and that any of us who are ill can find ways to heal and remain productive and loved by others.

[amgpac]

With all due respect, Scott, you've missed the point. I'm miffed that Wall Street has created such a paranoid environment. Do you actually think that Apple would turn black and fall off the face of NASDAC? I personally don't think that a corporation with such largess and momentum could manage to self destruct over the loss of a CEO. I am absolutely in favor of HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY (can you say Allen Stanford?). Can you actually deny that Wall Street is greed carried to the limits of absurdity?

If ignorance is bliss, I hope you're not totally blissed-out.

[Rhywun]

You understand that I was making a comparison to the iPhone/AT&T deal, right?

Yep. It was funny.

[algengler]

Good luck to Steve. I had a liver transplant in 1999 and I attribute use of Mac as part of my recovery (although there is no medical studies affirming this). If he can go back to work, more power to him. I never could, but I had more problems than just a failed liver.

[scottmyers]

Dear Algengler;

Your story is important because a) you succeeded with your healing and b) because you are contributing with your good spirit each moment. That is contribution, no question. Gandhi suggests that it is the quality not the quantity of our work that is the most relevant.

Thank you for your example.

[strat68]

jaspermac said:

It's rumored that he received the release version 1.0 of Apple's iLiver. Makes Microsoft's version of the liver, "Ziver" obsolete overnight.

Lines are already forming at Apple clinics as we speak.

Friggin hilarous. LMFAO!!

[wiredzen]

The New York Stock Exchange has been around since the late 1700s. Somehow people happily took investment risks for almost 200 years without knowing such information. People die. If this is a factor in investment strategy then the market really is in trouble. It is only in very recent times that we've had easy and (more) accurate access to such information. The line must be drawn between business and personal. Just because we can doesn't mean we should - having the ability to do something doesn't mean it's right to do something. Yes, privacy is more difficult in these hyper-media times, but that doesn't mean we should begin allowing such personal information to guide entities such as stock markets. That is leaning dangerously close to a "big brother" mentality. Seriously? Companies should make employee health history public domain? That is absolute nonsense.

[coop5]

I agree with you. It is an underlying but unsaid truth that Steve Jobs is a significant marketing genious. Most of the Apple fandom flows from his vision and presentation. I wish him well.

[BL888]

GET WELL STEVE !