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It can mean many things, but I hope Steve is off somewhere healing, resting, and gorging on lentils to gain some weight. He's probably playing Word Warp on his iPhone.

Speculation of this sort only leads to increased negativity. Unnecessary negativity.

We'll know when Steve's ready to tell us. 'Till then, best wishes and good luck!

MW: There!

Maybe Steve is testing new protocol and the current iChat is not compatible.

What a pathetic - fear mongering article. That MDN posted this speaks more to sensationalistic attitudes towards it's audience than actually caring about the product.

cb,

So, you'd rather that MDN ignore Apple-related news articles that numerous MDN readers specifically ask them to cover?

Run for U.S. Congress, cb, for you are a fool.

Steve came online each day and remained there for hours and hours as you’d expect a Silicon Valley mogul to do.

I'd expect someone of Steve's caliber to have much better things to do than peck at a chat app for "hours and hours". Apple's CEO should be one of the world's most connected people; can't he pick up his iPhone and make a call??

But then Steve started logging-on less and less. And several weeks ago he stopped logging-on at all

We're supposed to read Steve's iChat habits as a harbinger of something? What a case of grasping at straws.

Sorry,

I was out hanging with the Pope this week.

Feb 22, 09 - 10:50 am Comment from: HMCIV

Little did this "friend" know he was actually chatting with Jobs's pancreas all this time. I should know. I'm AIM buddies with Ballmer's Kidney.

you sick fscks

What a complete crap story .....

Feb 22, 09 - 11:26 am Comment from: steve32465

I think Cringley is the anti Dvork! He's says things in a pro-apple way to get a lot of hits. Now if you read his blog you'll see that he's not stating it to be saying anything negative about SJ not using his Mac, but the fact that he's simply airing info that was written about over a month ago by Goldman when he stated that SJ had stopped replying to friends emails, text, and not logging into his iChat was stating that something more serious than a hormonal imbalance was at hand here.

This is not new news, but a re-interpretation of old news or even reading further into old news.

This in other words is not news worthy. The only thing that will be news worthy at this point is an announcement that SJ has resigned or is cured or, God forbid, terminal.

Lets move on with our lives and enjoy our Macs and leave the poor man alone!

Feb 22, 09 - 11:36 am Comment from: steve32465

Follow up on my previous post. I meant "Dvorak" not the miss-spelled "Dvork"

Feb 22, 09 - 11:47 am Comment from: TowerTone

I heard he was using the new iChat from his new iPhone and couldn't risk outting it.

Did anyone else hear the voices in my head say that too?

"MacDailyNews Take: Yearning for a slightly more credible source, with bated breath we await an update on Steve Jobs' health from the Palo Alto Fraiche Yogurt counter person."

ABSOLUTELY CLASSIC MDN COMMENT.

I can't sop laughing!

You're funny!

What a total and complete moron this guy is..... Why not just shut the hell up and let Steve take care of his health and let Apple Shareholders enjoy a stock price that is based on sound fundamentals instead of hype about a single god within the Apple walls? Give us a break and take some time off!

It's also highly probable that he's started using a new version of OSX, iChat, and/or a new model of computer... not to mention he may also have switched internet providers. There's all kinds of legitimate reasons why he may not be showing up on this "source's" ichat buddy list.

What is not likely is that he's not on the internet anymore. It was reported that even while he was in the hospital the first time he had the surgery for his pancreas he still had a MacBook in his room.

Feb 22, 09 - 12:14 pm Comment from: TowerTone

doc e

You heard them, too...right?

Feb 22, 09 - 12:26 pm Comment from: macbones

Who cares? What is going to happen will. From the time we are born, we are. . . all dying. If he's not doing so well, I pray & wish him the best. It is just as likely that he is taking a sabbatical with the Dali Lama. If so, I also pray and wish him the best. It's really none of my business is it?

I also agree that it is highly unlikely that SPJ spends hours a day glued to iChat. Highly.

This should have never been published. As to why he's off-line, it's nobody's business.

Some friend.

Feb 22, 09 - 01:10 pm Comment from: Big Al

I can't believe you guys.

Everyone with a PC knows he is a Windows 7 Beta tester.

He's not very impressed with it but he's hangin' in there.

Feb 22, 09 - 01:40 pm Comment from: Wingsy

My iChat buddies think I'm online alla time too, but that's because I have iChat to auto-connect on log-in. Regardless of the fact that I AM online alla time, it continues to appear that way even when I'm AFK most of the day.

Could be that Steve's computer at work is set to auto-connect but his laptop (or whatever he uses at home & the road) is set not to. As he spent less & less time at the office it would appear that he's online less & less.

Methinks Cringely is trying to make his web-hit quota for the month.

The truth is that we do not know if Steve is doing better or not. I agree that this is not a good indicator of his health, there could be hundreds of reasons that can explain why he is no longer using instant messaging, but it is an additional reason to be worried.

Best wishes for a full recovery, Steve,

Feb 22, 09 - 01:58 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

@ Big Al

I'm in total agreement with the exception being the "not very impressed" part. Steve loves Windows 7. This should be the beginning of the end for MAC. Snow Leopard will be the final release and MAC will license Windows thereafter. Way to think different Steve.

Anybody know his screen name on Windows Live Chat Internet Ultimate Edition for Business? I'd like to welcome him to the Windows fold.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Cringley is a joke, as are Cringley and his pathetic, vulturistic article. I recommended he take 6 months off- he doesn't sound well, and should let an intern take his place in his absense. Either of them should find something else to write about. If they can't, they should just sign off, and go to rehab.

Windows 7 is Vista after liposuction. Dream on. As for the "ultimate Mac netbook" being on a Dell or other PC- someone is trying to divert hardware sales from Apple. I don't need no stinkin' netbook, and I surely don't need no stinking PC!

Kemo

Need I say more?

Ok I will, if he survives he will be back at Apple in a month or so, if he survives.

This is a stupid piece. The only fact is that Cringely's source hasn't seen SJ "available" on iChat. I'm sure SJ's reachable to the people that he needs to be available to. Totally blown out of proportion.

Not everyone likes to be on video chat, for whatever reason. Maybe he's shaved his beard and don't want this informant leaking that out as "a sign that he's worse!??!?!" Whole lot of misplaced hysteria over one little fact. Silly.

Leave the man alone, he's got plenty to occupy himself without stupid hearsay like this.

I like to read about Apple news, but this is tabloid gossip rather than news.

MW: blood?

Given the fragile psyches, undeniable insecurities, and historical irrationality of Apple fanbois one wonders if these weak-minded souls could accept, cope, or function once Steve Jobs' death is eventually announced.

Feb 22, 09 - 03:26 pm Comment from: Steve Jobs

Can I get a little privacy please?

Journo - it's obvious from the majority of posts - people see the same things I do in this article.

I may be a fool. You, my friend, are a tool.

Feb 22, 09 - 03:50 pm Comment from: Macintosher

Good Mr Jobs deserves a) more privacy and b) the accepted right to use an anti-spam filter on iChat. If he can build an "Irrelevant iChat Conversation Gauge" and put it to good use, I'm with him!

Feb 22, 09 - 04:04 pm Comment from: Bitjockey

Means nothing. I usually keep iChat running too because we use it in rendezvous mode at work (I'll IM to my associate 'Please come and save me from this overbearing salesman'... heh heh), but sometimes I tire of being interrupted so I don't launch it for a month or so. I've actually been called and told "Gee, I thought you were dead".... Amazing world we now live in eh?

Feb 22, 09 - 04:21 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

Last time someone posted with the registered handle "Steve Jobs", MDN reported that it came from Apple HQ.

Steve, if it is or is not you. We're all pulling for you to live a long and happy life. In or out of Apple, we're praying you get well.

"MacDailyNews Take: Yearning for a slightly more credible source, with bated breath we await an update on Steve Jobs' health from the Palo Alto Fraiche Yogurt counter person."

Regarding Steve Jobs' health, we'll always have this credible medical authority: MDN.

Jobs blames unnamed hedge funds for recent health scare rumors
Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 03:45 PM EST

MacDailyNews Take: Steve: We know you hate wasting time on clothes; hence the uniform, but, seriously, dump the old ill-fitting jeans and black mock turtlenecks and get new jeans and black mock turtlenecks that fit your newfound svelteness. Problem solved.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/18399/

Yea he has switched over to using a PC.

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Feb 22, 09 - 05:05 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

Well sure, because there's no way he would ever set it to "Away" while he is recooperating.

:rolleyes:

Feb 22, 09 - 05:16 pm Comment from: Brau

Steve Jobs is testing a new prototype IM client that doesn't require a computer at all. It's called iESP and it's "thinner than ever"! SO thin that it fits in your ear, interfacing directly with your optical and otic nerves. The Borg future is here now! Buy more Apple stock today!!

Steve is gone from Apple. The chances of him coming back are slim to none.

All that's happening is you're in the process of seeing the right spin being put on his leaving. Some months from now his permanent retirement or death will be announced and you'll hear Apple say how they've been just fine without him.

I agree with Gone. This outcome was inevitable with Steve's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Hardly anyone beats that disease. I think he has been able to keep it at bay longer than most everyone else with the same diagnosis.

Cut the bloke some slack - and keep your prying noses out of a man's private life.

I just saw him dancing Samba in Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro....

Feb 22, 09 - 07:09 pm Comment from: Road Warrior

Well taking it as what Cringley says:

“He’s off curing himself of something he won’t name and in some manner we can’t know but I CAN tell you right now it doesn’t involve using his computer,”

While a lot of people are jumping to his health issues but if that were the case...we could know, just as we have known before. Jobs has that integrity. I muse that it is something, entirely different.

Imagine pouring yourself into a problem, a difficult one that. You give it your all and then what do the great ones do? You pull back and wait for the answer to arrive. A simple common technique. It is the stuff of legends. Archimedes was having a bath when the Eureka hit him. Kekulé’s reverie in front of the fire when the symbol of the Oroboros appeared and solved the mystery of the benzene ring.

I muse that there is an Object User Interface (OUI) waiting to be discovered, implemented, and refined as another step of evolving computing. The command line interface (CLI) was a foundation of computer language. The Graphic User Interface a foundation of computer art...the icon. Yet it remains flat and inorganic, beckoning to develop and grow into something else.

I muse that Steve Jobs is indeed away from his computer, generating a solution we can’t know because it isn’t here yet.

It is probably all fiction but no more than the other speculations around here.

Steve has been placed in a specially designed "zero room" while he regenerates, er recovers. His RDF was having a profound effect on hospital employees, and they needed to be shielded from the intense close-quarters exposure.

The downside of the zero room is it blocks all radiation, including wireless networking. Hence the iChat silence.

Rumor has it that another room, heavily reinforced and padded with rubber, has been prepared should Steve Ballmer need similar care.

Feb 22, 09 - 08:23 pm Comment from: breeze

Cringley - you idiot, I have two friends that have received emails from Jobs over the past few weeks. This took less than 10 minutes to confirm.

All I can say is, with people like Cringely on your chat list -- who would report these things to the media -- if I were Steve, I'd get a new ID and not let morons like this on the list.

Feb 22, 09 - 09:22 pm Comment from: Ferf Muckmeyer

Rumors, rumors, nothing but rumors. We'll know when he's either back at work, comes out and announces his retirement (in person) or we find out the worst, god forbid.

I am sick of all of this conjecture floating around out there that makes us all paranoid, manipulates stock prices and causes panic for tech fans everywhere. For god's sake the guys a human being - stop f$cking writing about this crap over and over again.

And guess what - MDN is just as guilty. Stop posting stuff like this and we won't have to make up stories in our heads about Steve's so-called "demise".

Feb 22, 09 - 09:26 pm Comment from: breeze

the internet...where a dog can pose as king...

Feb 22, 09 - 09:43 pm Comment from: Connor MacBook

Knowing Cringely's track record, I'll take this with a pinch of gallstone.

"can't he pick up his iPhone and make a call??"

Chatting and calling are two completely different ways of communicating. If you are a busy person like he is, a passive conversation method like chatting is much more suitable.

I am very busy myself during the day and find a chat a much better way to communicate, as it doesnt require my complete attention at all times.

Think about it. It makes a lot of sense

Feb 23, 09 - 12:34 am Comment from: eMax

so we are basing someone's health on the frequency of logging into an instant message program?

THIS JUST IN:" STEVE JOBS IS GOING BLIND, HE NOW USES 1024x768 res instead of 1200x1080. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE FRIEND OF MINE SEES HIS SCREEN EVERY DAY AND HAS SEEN THE RESOLUTION DECREASE EACH DAY UNTIL IT HAS REACHED THE CURRENT RESOLUTION."

"HAS SEEN THE RESOLUTION DECREASE EACH DAY UNTIL IT HAS REACHED THE CURRENT RESOLUTION"

The best explanation for using a lower resolution screen is that you've just moved from a midrange PC laptop to an equivalent screen dimension Mac laptop and set the Mac to it's maximum value. What is it with Apple and it's "budget" LCD resolutions on their high end laptops.

As a(n exclusive) Mac user of some twenty years and long-time Microsoft allergic I sometimes get more than slightly disturbed by the knee-jerk reaction by MDN and it's readers alike to anything than can even remotely be construed as not praising Apple and all things Apple enough, or to someone saying something that might possibly be constued as criticism of Apple or things Apple.

What's the harm in admitting that Steve actually MIGHT be off somewhere curing himself? Behaving like the proverbial ostrich is rarely a constructive reaction.

Flame away ... (and prove my point )

MDN word "support", as in what SJ needs instead of unthinking pseudo-loyalty.