Forums | MacLife

Or maybe Steve doesn't like you anymore.

Pariah wrote:

Yeah, I am sure some of my chat buddies think I haven't been online in a long time when the reality is I just have them on my block list because they came to bore me.

You son of a bitch.  You told me your chat client wasn't working any more!

This doesn't sound too healthy, either:

Jobs to skip Apple shareholders meeting
Steve Watch continues
By Rik Myslewski

Apple's Steve Jobs, on medical leave until June, won't attend attend the company's annual shareholders meeting this Wednesday, fueling rumors that Apple savior is phasing himself out.

Also, the privacy-loving convalescent is no longer instant-messaging with his chat buddies. Apparently.

That first announcement is news, reported by the ever-reliable Bloomberg.com.

The second is merely a flimsy rumor making the rounds of the intertubes.

First, the first: Since his return to Apple in 1997, after which he pulled the Cupertino Fruit Company out of its death spiral, Jobs hasn't missed one of his company's annual stakeholder gatherings.

That perfect-attendance streak is about to be broken.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24 … s_meeting/

Certainly a good thing for him to be offline for a while.
Be well Steve.

Last edited by pirloui (2009-02-24 5:19 pm)

ScifiterX wrote:

Remember the surgery rumor a couple weeks ago? (It was first reported from Bloomberg and one which they are continuing to sell as possibly true despite official statements to the contrary.) I'm not putting much stuck in this rumor. What was Bloomberg's source, was it reliable this time, or was it another overhead at a party thing? Even so, he may well not physically be in the meeting he may or may not be part of the meeting (conference call).

Nope. Rik sez

The Apple shareholders meeting held Wednesday was dominated by a man who wasn't there: Steve Jobs.

All the other members of Apple's board of directors were in attendance, save Google CEO Eric Schmidt, but none would provide any more-detailed information about the missing Jobs.

“Nothing has changed,” said board member Arthur Levinson, Chairman and CEO of Genentech. Levinson deflected a question from a shareholder about Jobs's health by saying, "If there is any more information that the board deems necessary to disclose, we will disclose it."

The Apple board is sticking to its story: Jobs will return at the end of June as previously announced.

According to a report by Bloomberg.com, the board does have a succession plan in place in case worse comes to worst, but it's confidential.

In what appeared to be an homage to the missing Apple founder's trademark black turtleneck and jeans, COO and interim Apple pilot Tim Cook led the meeting dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans - close, but not a blatant impersonation.

Cook's costume wasn't the only bit of theater at the Cupertino meeting. According to AppleInsider, one shareholder railed against proposals made by "socialists" before "swearing and then excusing himself to get a drink."

Apple provided another bit of theatrics by forcing all attending journalists to surrender their laptops, iPhones, and any other devices with which they could communicate with the outside world.

The performance even morphed into a musical when, at a shareholder's suggestion, the crowd rose to its feet and sang "Happy Birthday" to the absent Jobs, who turned 54 yesterday.

The remainder of the meeting was less entertaining. Cook reported glowingly on Apple's successes and reiterated the company's decision to forego future Macworld Expos, Apple's general counsel Daniel Cooperman dodged a question about a reported SEC investigation into the board's lack of transparency regarding Jobs's condition, and the full board of directors was re-elected.

After the shareholders meeting, the board retired into a private confab. Odds are what was discussed there was far more interesting. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26 … s_meeting/

ukimalefu wrote:

Or maybe Steve doesn't like you anymore.