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Uhm...don't think so. Someone just wants lots of hits.

Well would this be due to his health (remember how he looked last year) or because he got his hands caught in the cookie jar?

Let me be the first to call Bullsh*t. Just a rumor spread by a short seller to lock up some gains.

But not before the SteveNote!

Worrisome. Let's analyze for a second. Why would he?

1) Health, god forbid. We can't know that. 2) Then, options thing? Unlikely, after the absolution the board has given him. Unless new issues have appeared, again god forbid. 3) His own reasons, like a new venture, a break, Pixar? Also unlikely. He doesn't take breaks. He's doing fine with Pixar. Though the options thingy may have worn him down and may offer an excuse to clear the air and temporarily recuse himself from operations.

Overall, unlikely. But we can't really know.

As long as he's back for the next keynote, it is ok by me!

Sell, sell, sell.

Or not.

No way in hell.

Just another pre-keynote attempt to get hits on a website or make the stock plunge to be able to sell short. Happens every year...

l wouldn`t think so... apple is his life... Apple needs him, who would do the keynotes nextweek then? Maybe after the next keynote he might state he is leaving for awhile...
best wishes steve will miss you. come back soon.

Maybe someone is a little upset that they missed the stock buying opportunity last week and want to artifically lower the price again leading into the keynote? Silly yes, but crazier things have happened.

Just found out his moving to microsoft

Well, this guy got the attention he wanted along with his stock manuever and the under the table monetary incentive from M$.
Steve, if he wanted, could just do the keynotes, etc. every year and leave the rest to the upper tight-knit circle. He would never announce that he was taking a leave of absence at the prime time of his company's growth with no peak in sight. Yeah, right. But the bozos will still sell their shares and make those with a brain buy even more and cheaper. We should thank this guy instead.

He has been giving more and more time to other high-ups at Apple over the last couple major presentations....possibly priming them for taking over the stage.

See how he is a very smart person with good business sense, he knows that if Apple is going to continue as it has been in the last 10 years, someone else is eventually going to take over. A short leave of absense is a good way to let them test the waters, while knowing that he is coming back to check on you and see how things are going. Better that way than completely unexpectedly and with people who are not prepared.

> Just found out his moving to microsoft

and Ballmers moving to Apple.

mac1984,

Steve sold Pixar to Disney and he now holds the most Disney stock of any single person, but no longer owns Pixar

This doesn't make any sense. Steve has been quoted as saying that 2007 will be the most exciting year for new products in Apple's history. Why would he choose now to leave?

No way in Hell! He was just quoted as calling 2007 the most exciting product years in Apple History. Why would he leave now???

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/12133/

Damn U James! 1 minute! U Suck!

imagine if you will...amidst the usual idol-worshipping keynote frenzy, Steve (Bilbo) thanks everyone for coming, recognizes Apple's 30th birthday, then slips on the iPod of Power and vanishes from the stage...

....And he also has a brother named Jack.

"imagine if you will...amidst the usual idol-worshipping keynote frenzy, Steve (Bilbo) thanks everyone for coming, recognizes Apple's 30th birthday, then slips on the iPod of Power and vanishes from the stage..."

That won't happen until the eleventy-first aniversary.

Ok here it is fresh from the farm... apple buying microsoft... no wait microsoft buying apple... Nah bill gates leaving microsoft to join apple.

Read Kass's bio. His history is in short selling stocks. That is a scheme in which the short seller makes money when the price of a stock drops. So he starts a rumor that Jobs will be gone from Apple. How smarmy is that? This deserves zero credibility.

Steve did NOT get caught with "his hand in the cookie jar". The backdating of options is perfectly legal. It's the not reporting of them that is the problem. This is all a tempest in a teapot. Steve's been exonaerated for cryin' out loud. He's not leaving.

They left out the second sentence.

"He's going to replace Ballmer at Microsoft, sell off the company piece by piece and give the money back to the shareholders."

He should be back at Apple by early March.

I would believe it. Steve isn't the regular CEO. He's more like a priest, bishop, Cardinal or Pope. And they take sabbaticals every seven years or so for 3 to 6 months. Professors, too. I say "likely".

"Uhm...don't think so. Someone just wants lots of hits."

More like someone has a very large short position on the stock.

Doug Kass runs a hedge fund that only invests in short positions. That means they only make money when a stock goes DOWN.

R I D I C O L O U S...!!!

This Doug Kass as biography was stating is just another bilionaire manager: the ones that jumps from a company to the next one multilplying their incomes and...stock options! The ones that in the last 10 years has multiply the distance from managers and employers of 10.000 %.
This guys are the real danger for USA and for the whole world, these guys should be sent to a hard work camp for a couple of years!! Then should be sent back to a pubbliuc school in same dangerous district.
I'd love to see them facing the bad boys...maybe on YouTube!!!

IT IS TIME FOR ALL OF US TO STOP THIS RIDERS, BEFORE THEY'LL MAKE OUR FINANCES AND ECONOMY CRASH!!!!

Please MDN, stop pubblishing this guys opinions...you're helping them...

Told you so.

Only question is whether his 'recess' begins before or after next week's Keynote.

My money is Steve is a NO SHOW.

It's true.

Steve's LOA begins today at 5 pm PST and ends Monday morning.

LOA? Sure, why not? It'd be a good cover for a plea bargain arranged 6-month stint at some federal low security "farm" for white collar workers. Martha survived it. Why not the Jobso? After all, he's survived probably the worst type of cancer there is. He's Batman.

I think this is a test to see what effect such a rumor has on the stock price. This is from The Street, after all.

Unsquirted!

HAHAhAHAHHA! yes. rememeber when he sold pixar to disney. he said then that he had no plans of being an active member of disney's board, and that selling pixar would mean he has even MORE time to devote to apple. no effing way hes leaving.

Oh yeah, Steve needs a leave of absences so he can enter the 2008 presidential campaign. After that he'll replace congress with the iPod team and Cupertino will become the new U.S. capital.

In other news a huge asteroid will smash into Earth sometime within the next 5 billion years. And even more SHOCKING Kid Rock breaks up with Pam Anderson!

Here's a better one:

The Street is demanding a phone from Steve. Word is all over the place at Cupertino that it WILL be introduced on Tuesday BUT it's not ready.

Another example of Wall Street driving decisions and this time, it is resulting in a phone that is (1) badly overpriced, and (2) doesn't work very well, yet.

Sounds like a completely unverifyable rumor in hopes to lower Apple's stock price allowing for some high-profile investment firms to soak up more shares before AAPL moves over the $100 barrier...

If this rumor has legs over the weekend into next week, if it is false, Steve will knock it down during his MWSF Keynote.

If is has legs and Steve says nothing, begin to worry, and wait for the following week during Apple's investor conf. call to see what is going on.

If the story dies on a vine by today/tomorrow and goes nowhere, then it is what it is - which is nothing.

Say it ain't so!

did someone say that Doug Kass, founder and president of Seabreeze Partners Management, Inc., is on the verge of bankruptcy and involed in illegal trading and maybe even a sex scandal with aliens ... gosh talk about a horrible rumor ... hope it doesn't spread and cause anyone harm ...

RUMOR: MDN will post any rumor, re-post the rumor, and foment responses to more rumors. That is, MDN should, in the spirit of accuracy in media, rename itself Mac Rumor Mill (i.e. MRM).

MDN has taken a leave of absence from their senses. This is not a rumor.

This is really getting out of hand. Next rumor will be Steve Jobs will be going to the moon on the next shuttle and taking his own private rocket to the moon. Stupid especially with MacWorld coming up and he is scheduled to do his Keynote as planned.

Any "rumour" that comes from a trading desk can only have one aim in mind: affect the stock price.

"Next rumor will be Steve Jobs will be going to the moon on the next shuttle and taking his own private rocket to the moon."


SHHHHHHHHHHH ! ! ! ! Dammit.

Doubt it. And, the weight loss and continued difficulties putting on weight are expected consequences of his surgery (if they resected a lot of his pancreas, which I suspect they did.)

Space Station to Earth: "The Fruit has fallen to the ground from the tree"


Bye Bye Apple? (and i don't mean Jobs saying this....)

It seems as if all of these negative rumor (cock roaches) mongers are comming out the wood work because they dislike Apple. He should just keep his mouth shut if can't substantiate this BS. It's just an attempt to create more uncertainty about Apple - he's a dope!

Who really cares what postions he's held or where he went to school. That dosen't mean he knows what he's talking about.

apple's stock price is unchanged, so the rumor has yet to gain credibility. i think there's still major uncertainty on what the sec will do about apple's options backdating.

All of this is absoletly true!