I remember these very well.
Posted on 12/30/2008 1:36:04 PM PST by COUNTrecount
According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs' keynote cancellation. Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined:
Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple when the inevitable news comes later this spring.
This strategic loss will be less of a bang with investors. This is why Macworld is a no-go anymore. No more Steve means no more hype. Saying they are no longer needing [Macworld] is the cover designed by the worldwide "loyalty" department.
This source has repeatedly been 100% correct before. Those times, however, were always related to news and images of unreleased Apple products. I can only hope that, in this more personal matter, it is absolutely wrong. And that if he is not, that sentence just means that Steve Jobs is retiring according to his plan.
While Steve Jobs' health is nobody's business—not the press, not investors, not the public—we believe that there's a line between saying "no-comment" and plainly misleading—once again—the public.
Steve Jobs have been giving Macworld Expo keynotes since he came back as interim CEO of the company in 1997. Since then he has never failed once, always introducing notable products both at Macworld San Francisco and Macworld New York. During his latest Macworld keynote, in 2008, he introduced the MacBook Air. Later this year, he used his WWDC presentation to announce the new iPhone 3G. In his last two show-n-tells, for the new iPods and the new MacBooks, he used less time on stage, giving more limelight to key members of Apple's executive team.
According to our Deep Throat's report, the fact seems to be that, whether or not Apple had other reasons to pull out of Macworld, they weren't the only ones, and they certainly weren't the same ones used for not putting Steve Jobs through the ordeal of a two-hour presentation.
Apple did not comment on this story after being contacted.
LOL! Never said he was a “nice” guy. I have an enormous amount of respect for what he achieved. I can’t think of many men other men or women who have the range of qualities of Steve Jobs.
And P.S.: A lot of people got rich on Job’s watch as well.
Gizmodo might have gone maverick on this.
That’ll do it. Ouch.
Not true.
An Apple a day?
Folks — there is no such thing as a “mild form” of pancreatic cancer. That’s a myth. No matter how much money you have, you do not recovery from this type of cancer. It takes people quick, and it is virtually impossible to get a diagnosis before it already reaches stage 4.
Of COURSE it’s his health! And of COURSE they’re going to mislead the public about it.
There was some controversy on the fact that the last time he was visiably seen at a macworld convention that he looked sickly. It was to the point where FakeSteveJobs stoped blogging because he really did think Steve was in decline.
Jobs had a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas, not adenocarcinoma. What you say is true of adenocarcinoma. Jobs was diagnosed in 2004 and underwent surgical removal. Since then, every time he farts or catches cold, the media starts hanging crepe.
Most Czar’s are ruthless in protecting their vision...but the results beat anything done by committee.
He’s already beaten the odds by living with pancreatic cancer for this long.
It took my mother in less than a year.
“he is getting pretty old”
Keeerist, he was born in 1954!
He's not that old -- heck, I was three years ahead of him in high school. (He hung around the electronics lab after school too...)
Sorry but afraid it is true.
Consulted a number of sites and they confirm the info below.
From http://www.pancreatica.org/faq.html#anchor775483
The Toll of Pancreatic Cancer
Each year more than 30,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas and more than twice that in Europe. Most of these people will have passed away by the end of the first year. The incidence of pancreatic cancer increases with age; most people are between the ages of 60 to 80 when they receive the diagnosis. Men have tended to be over-represented, though in recent years the gap between men and women has shrunk, possibly due to increased cigarette smoking among women. In the U.S., pancreatic cancer is 9th or 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer (depending on gender), but the fourth leading cause of cancer death in men and women. The median survival period from the time of diagnosis until demise is arguably the worst of any of the cancers. The median survival for untreated advanced cancer of the pancreas is about 3 ½ months; with good treatment this increases to about six months. Perhaps in concluding, we might draw attention (in the midst of delivering this difficult news) to an interesting paper about one man’s struggle to not be the median.
My dear husband survived adenocarcinoma of the appendix. He’s been 6 years cancer free now.
For what it’s worth, he wasn’t expected to survive, but he did.
How fortunate for both of you.
My best friend was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, stage 4, and died 3 months later. She was 36.
When she shared with me what she had, I did research, and knew that she had been given a death sentence. She suffered horribly and had to be put in a drug induced coma at the end, as the pain itself was killing her.
I miss her each and every day.
MOgirl
Everything you posted is true about adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Steve Jobs doesn’t have that. He has a neuroendocrine islet cell carcinoma, a much rarer and much less aggressive tumor. He has thus far lived 4 years post diagnosis.
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