“I’m not going to beat around the bush here. Many of us are thinking the same thing. Nobody wants to say it, but I will: I’m worried that Steve Jobs is sick,” SteveJack writes over in our Opinion section today.
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Steve Jack, shut the f-up.
Jobs looked just fine to me. He looked like he had lost a healthy amount of weight though, which is a good thing.
Thank you, SteveJack. I’ve been wrestling with this since I saw the keynote.
I thought it was just my paranoid side getting the better of me, but I suspected this also.
I pray all is well.
Wow, Lets hope Steve is not ill. He is looking thin and gaunt to me as well. Maybe it’s just stress and age, still not good. I can only imagine his stress filled life everyday.
He may have been tired, he may have had a bug, he may have just lost weight, it may be nothing at all. I’m sure if something is wrong he’ll have been to a doctor and if it is bad then we’ll find out just like we did before. There’s even less reason to speculate about this than there is to speculate about all these amazing products Apple is supposed to be launching each week.
He is giving other time at the keynote because he has to slowly evaluate his successor.
The gaunt-bearded look took me by surrpise. I’ll blissfully assume that the man is under alot of pressure: Pixar, Disney, Apple and the latest stock grant irregularities.
Stay well Steve!
It worries me to read in print the same thing I suspected…why the tag team? why the noticable weight loss? (why the French man?)
My friend went on a honeymoon earlier this year in Maui. On a day hike at one of the islands scenic spots he came across Steve and family exploring the terrain…Steve on a vacation I would assume.
Speculation of sickly Steve, Steve laid up in a bed, gathering enough strength to give a keynote IS JUST RIDICULOUS.
Ill or not, taking attention away from him and placing it primarily on Apple’s products is a good move. At some point, the torch will have to be passed. Better sooner than later, while he can groom the up-and-comers. Do people expect him to be 103 years old giving keynotes? “And one more thing… I can’t find my glasses.”
Although I’ve thought the same thing, I think the tag-team keynote was just a way of not forcing the CEO to have to spend and hour and a half going through a memorized software demostration. I do think he finally realized that a lot of what he does at these things (e.g. showing off new iMovie templates) is beneath him.
Save Steve for the big announcements.
I’m a bit tired of reading about Steve’s health because he looks absolutely fine to me and I have no reason to suspect he’s unwell just because he has dropped a few pounds. Yes, the keynote was a little different than others, but not hugely because Steve has often stepped aside to let other people demonstrate the more techy demos. Steve loves showing off the consumer side of things and that seems to be his passion.
So I think we should all stop going on about this. He looked good and healthy to me! Let’s focus on the cool stuff: Leopard is going to kick Vista’s ass!
I was Thinking the same question. He did look thin, and everything. I hope he isnt sick, he is like a GOD to most of us Apple Faithful.
that is the exactly samething i have though when i saw steve came out the stage. but after a couple min, i think he is just fine, he was using his own tone, made joke…etc. Also he keep socalize with press and developer after the keynote. base on overall, he is fine, he may just start to workout and become a health man, so teh he can keep running the Apple for more years.
I have watched every Steve Jobs keynote since his return to Apple.
I was so excited to learn about Leopard, I did not notice at first.
Then when I watched the presentation the second time around I noticed Steve’s weight loss.
Plus, my wife noticed the missing “sparkle”.
I wish Steve well. If he needs to leave Apple, either for fun or for health, Apple will be just fine.
People tend to think they know celebrities. I don’t know Steve Jobs. But he has been an inspiration for me. His attention to detail, his presentation, his entrepreneurship, his vision, his leadership.
Lets be positive and hope everything is ok.
Speaking as a bit of podgester, I think Steve looks good.
He’s probably back to the weight he was in the early Eighties, but subjectively it just looks worse because a) we’re all a little paranoid since he had the health scare and b) because he doesn’t have the hair he did when he was in his mid-twenties.
As for the keynote tag-team, maybe he’s mellowing in his middle age and has decided to de-emphasise the SPJ personality cult which, at times, makes anything going on in North Korea look quite normal and reasonable.
I noticed it too and thought the same thing. Could just be that Apple wants to get people used to seeing others speak since SJ is getting older, and busier, so probably needs to slow down a bit. Also, it was WWDC, so developers are more interested in hearing from some of the guys who make Apple tick. Agree that Phil Schiller and Bertrand Serlet were not great presenters, but Scott Forstall did a great job of filling Jobs’ large shoes.
I thought he looked thinner but I don’t know about sick. Although I did hear him stumble a few times and struggle to find words. Maybe he was just sick like with a cold or something bad for breakfast. I sure hope he isn’t sick.
A man’s health is between him and his doctor – nobody else. If you’re worried about the health of a CEO of a company you’ve got money in, well that’s just one of the inevitable risks that come with investing. Steve Jobs doesn’t owe anyone an explanation about his health.
He’s not sick, he’s a vegan. This is what people who don’t eat enough protein look like. This is also what people look like who don’t consume fast food.
ROZ HO ON ACID!!!!!
Thought I’d get around to watching the video of the presentation sooner or later. Looks like it’s gonna be sooner: THIS I GOTTA SEE!!!!
Personally, I think most vegetarians look sickly most of the time.
There has been a change, but it probably is mainly due to stress. I my own, relativley small, business and am accountable only to myself. Even so, when I have business problems I look the same way Steve does. With the hours he must put in normally, plus the added burden of the whole stock potion thing, I’m not surprised he is a bit worn.
Fame and fortune do normally come at a personal price.
Steve Jobs is fine.
Regarding the tag-team: We will be seeing less and less of Steve at future keynotes. Too much emphasis and attention is brought to STEVE’s presentation. Apple needs to think about the future when STEVE is no longer here. They are grooming successors. Showing the public that it is a KEYNOTE and not a STEVENOTE.
BTW: Try using the same saturation setting on both photos and Steve’s facial color will look the same.
SteveJackoff, shut the fsck up. Don’t you know he’s on the Lindsay Lohan diet? Jesus!
That thought had crossed my mind as well. However he acted like the “normal” Steve we all know. Perhaps Apple’s Board finally convinced Steve to introduce a few more of Apple’s “Brain Trust”, to demonstrate that there is more to Apple than just his “Steveness”. I thought Scott Forstall did a good job. He has a lot of Steve qualities. Perhaps he might take the reigns long into the future when Steve decides to retire and actually have time to use all of his company’s cool products.
You know, maybe he’s just getting older. People do start to look older after awhile. Yeah…. it happens.
:/
Thinner yes, but beyond that his health is nobody’s business but his own. The Frenchman was fine to listen to. I don’t understand how some people on this thread say they couldn’t understand him. I could understand him better than I can Snoop-Dog.
Man, easy on the English as a second language people. Who said everyone should be All American Wonder Bread White?
But yeah, I noticed the weight loss too… Steve is a vegetarian and I figure with his health he probably is just altering his diet.
Speaking as a physician, he does look thinner than 2005. The facial fat and loss of pectoralis muscle architecture is apparent. This is NOT a very good sign especially with his history of cancer. I’m sure his weight loss is being closely followed by his doctors but I agree this may be an important finding. Only time will tell on it’s implication.
Scott Forstall did a great job speaking. Phil Schiller is a horrible public speaker, he looks awkward and artificial.
I personally think Steve looked OK, if a little on the thin side.
What I’m really growing annoyed at though is the constant French bashing here at MDN. Give it a rest! Bertrand Serlet’s presentation almost stole the show. It was great.
Such a comment from SteveJack is unfortunately typical of my countrymen (Americans) these days. This “America or nothing” attitude is why most of the civilized (and uncivilized) world doesn’t respect us anymore. Put a cork in it, for cryin’ out loud!
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I certainly hope and pray that he is fine. He does look a little worse of to me than a year ago, but he is a 61 year old man who has had pancreatic cancer already, I would not expect him to be looking better. He sees to have plenty of energy, though he looks thinner, I think his color looks better than a year ago.
I do not see enough of a change to be worried, but as I said I pray just in case.
I agree, he looks sick and frail. I know what “lean and fit” looks like and this ain’t it. Scott Forstall is skinny, but not unhealthy, for instance.
For some reason, nitwits will now translate this observation as I am “hoping” he is sick. Far from it.
Sh*theads, I’m a realist, not a fool, or an ostrich with my head in the sand. The man seems ill.</preemptive defense>
If the highly odd tag-team keynote helps him, great.
But I love Apple. I love Macintosh. I love Steve Jobs. But Apple cannot be a cult of personality forever. We need to remember Apple is not one or two or 3 people, but thousands.
Let’s ease off the hero worship before we get bit in the ass by Fate.
Actually, it’s too late, the public and investors already equate Apple = Steve Jobs — so we are doomed unless Apple can build a great leadership team publicly that will give people confidence in a Post-Steve Apple — however far away that is, and let’s hope it’s an eternity away.
Steve, thank you for carring.
Don’t worry man, I just stayed all night watching movies on my iPhone.
If I will have a heart attack or something, I guess a lot of shereholders will do the same. So I’m going to run an extra mile just for you guys.
best vibes,
steve jobs
Steve is a couple years younger than me. When I look at the picture, I see a fifty-ish man who has lost a little weight and gotten a tan, and didn’t have enough sleep the night before.
If I hadn’t been neglecting my daily walks out in the sun and if I had stayed up all night, I’d look just like that.
I’m sure that Steve put in extra hours the day before honing his presentation. In your 50s, you can’t lose sleep without showing it. I know that from personal experience.
This is something which the board of directors (and Steve) should have been dealing with some time ago…but I wonder if they have. That is to say, one of the responsibilities of a CEO, and a board, is to have a succession plan. As a corporation, there must be a plan for the continued leadership of the business should the present leadership no longer be available for any reason. The failure to do so puts the business at great risk so, yes, you should be concerned, very concerned indeed as a shareholder.
people at their normal weight always look “unhealthy”, as this society thinks overweight looks “good”. He looks fine to me, just back to his normal weight, plus, we’re all getting older.
Bobby,
He’s 51, not 61.
What worries me more is his performance rather than his appearance. It lacked conviction and – yet again – he lost his train of thought on a couple of occasions and had to look things up in his notes while he hummed and hawed a bit. He’s been doing this at just about every demo he’s been involved with since the UK launch of iTunes, which AFAIK was just around the time of his diagnosis.
Poor presentations aren’t unusual, but this is Steve Jobs we’re talking about, perhaps the best salesman in the world. Something is wrong.
Not to mention that last year Steve was probably still on his meds which will add weight.
gow is right on…..
our country has this looking at people through “Cracker Barrel” glasses thing going: eating too much along with the other the fat white people
He did look a lot thinner, but I doubt that he’s sick though.
Last year and this first 6 months have been really busy for the guy… transition to 10.5, Intel, some rev.A problems annd a bunch of other programs. Not to mention the big amount of lawsuits: “slavery” in china, new law in France and possibly Sweden and co.
I think he overdid it a little bit lately, and that shows.
He sure looked gaunt to me. Say a prayer for him and all of us.
Im vegan. Steve jobs is pescatarian. just for those people that dont know, pescatarians eat more or less a traditional vegetarian diet,ie, vegies and dairy products, but they also eat fish.
Vegans eat no animal products. So theres a fair difference.
Here’s the fix:
1. Shave
2. Wear something else
Steve has all the misfits, nonconformists, weirdos, freaks, etc., and will not lose them if he sheds the grungy jeans. Where are they going to go?
If he really wants to build market share, he needs to recognize that his appearance makes him and his products look like they are aiming for a tiny market of customers as described above.
Not considering his over-abundant beard to hide the non-existing cheeks 🙁
paragraph 3: “He looks very thin, almost gaunt”
paragraph 7: “He’s not “thin,” just noticeably thinner than he was recently.”
Backpedaling? Whatever, man.
I agree with ‘gow’–he’s probably at his optimal weight, which translates as “too thin” in the U.S.
What a dumbass commentary.
Steve is not in good condition, and hasn’t been for a year or more. Watch the video closely, you can see that he’s having difficulty walking, but trying hard to hide it.
Attn: Steve, -way over yang!
“Boy, sometimes I wish he’d just let loose and have a nice steak once and awhile”
What’s up Jack? You working for MS? This WOULD kill him. Meat really isn’t the best thing for the human body. Get your facts straight.
I noticed his slimmer look when he was interviewed on NBC Nightly News on the opening day of the new Apple Store 5th Ave. in New York:
I can’t tell from that picture. Does Steve have a tan or is he jaundiced? This is dumb.
“It was Roz Ho on acid.”
Classic! And spot on, too.
As one who has had a relative go through cancer and not survive, Steve looks like he is following the same slow downward spiral. It is a sad thing.
Here’s the full interview:
He did look a little too thin. Let’s hope that it is on purpose and not because he is sick. I think that the presentation format did not demand 100% of SJ. It was just a very long demo and it was nice to see other people. Nothing wrong with a little bit o change to keep things fresh.
The french guy however was plain awful. I know he is brilliant and all but too thick of an accent to having him in such a spotlight. Maybe for less formal and smaller tech discussions he would be a good guy to have.
“Boy, sometimes I wish he’d just let loose and have a nice steak once and awhile”
Yeah, that way he can balloon up to 25 stone like the rest of the lard-arse steak-chompers.
As an investor. it is a true reason to be concerned, Steve retires and so does the stock performance.
He who burns twice as bright burns twice as fast
-Blade Runner
On there combined performances I thought Steve did a great job again, personally i think theyre holding ALOT back from the actual release build of what Leopard will actually be, and what they showed, theres not really a whole lot to be really excited about, is there? I mean you want the guy at 51 to be jumping around the stage about a thing called time machine??!! he was most focused when talking about market share, that was the biggest thing to come of the event in my opinion.
they wont want to give MS any ideas on how to improve vista, think about what they showed, they showed core technologies, they showed core animation, time machine, things that are built in, and require alot of work to copy, 64 bit…you didnt really get any stuff you could get your teeth into.
he seemed rather composed and i thought quite at ease with himself throughout.
Phil Schiller on the other hand, no offence but hes not up to the mark, he looks like he works at apple for the paychecks, and Im sorry to be that high up at Apple you have to want to change the world through new technology, i dont see that vision and desire coming from schiller, i never have, the guy looks like he hangs out at drag racing meets and drinks bud by the 100.
Thats fine but is that the kinda guy you want at an important position in Apple? the guy didnt know his lines, he didnt looked fired up, i mean half of us would have more passion about apple than that guy.
Scott Forstall did a good job though and i thought he looked genuinley inspired by the products he was demoing.
Youll see steve really excited when he talks about numbers and marketshare, and BIG developments.
Apple still need to be relentless with advertising. They also need to release the absolute, hands down, best ever, most innovative combined pda/phone/musicplayer the world has yet to see, the market is calling out for it. I hope theres an apple event announcement shortly.
Feel guilty bringing this up, but I wonder what the transition plan is for when SJ steps down?
I hope it will happen gradually instead of rapidly.
Why is everyone freaked out about the tag team?
ALL the keynotes that I have ever seen, for WWDC or macworld are tag-team efforts. (and I have seen plenty of them first hand)
and yes, he does seem thin… but seeing him move and hearing him talk…. I am much less worried than after the pics from the “cube” opening.
For anyone who is interested, he had a CUREABLE form of pancreatic cancer, and the doctors caught it so early on there was hardly anything to write home about.
Looking further down this thread you’d think SJ was on his death bed. IMO he looks very healthy, being thin and watching what you eat makes you look like a European, not a fat American.
SJ is fine, he’s 51 for goodness sake, of course he’s beginning to show his age. He’s been the Silicon Valley Golden Boy for 30 years, I think he deserves to look a little weathered.
Steve does look gaunt and less lively.
Compare this keynote to one a few years back…
I don’t think anyone here mentioned that Steve consulted his notes A LOT more than in previous keynotes, specifically when he was sitting doing the demos. The other tag team members did more standing monologues and Steve did more sitting with his notes doing demos. This aspect of his performance does not point to illness, but to distraction during the rehearsals.
I was thinking about the stock options scandal and how that must have taken away a lot of the time he would normally be eating and sleeping… and rehearsing. The recent accounting restatement is a really big deal, and you have to imagine how much running around and fast thinking Stevie had to do to contain it as much as he did, right at the same time he was supposed to be preparing for the WWDC.
If the world knows of a big problem at secretive Apple, then Apple must have actually had a far bigger problem internally, which had to be massaged and spun for PR’s sake. Steve’s RDF must have been in overdrive, which would be really taxing, physically and mentally.
This explanation fits all the facts, including the excessive use of notes, the tag-teaming, the lack of energy relative to past Stevenotes, and his gaunt and distracted appearance.
There is definetely something wrong. Is the man a vegetarian? He needs to eat a big ass steak once and a while, and quit playing water polo with bono while eating soy hot dogs.
Now, this is skinny (Apple Store employee on right):
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Who is that kid? Big Bird?
Slow news day following the keynote? Geez…
Your problem is that you are so used to the “fat American” look that anyone that is in their correct weight category looks thin. You hang around too much with programmers whose diet consists of Dr. Pepper, Twinkies and McDonalds. Get a grip SteveJack and MDN readers. Oh, and get some exercise while you are at it. Apple’s obvious hint to all of you fatties obviously didn’t register in your brains. “You are too freakin’ fat! All you do is sit around playing on your computers and listening to your iPods. Here – put this in your shoe and this in your iPod and go out and get some exercise for once in your miserable life!!!!!” Yes, they are talking to you!!!
Do you Americans realise how stupid your accent sounds?
If you really have something to say, please remove that potato from your mouth first, thanks.
If I was the Queen, I would lock you in the Tower,
for repeated language abuse and arrogance.
A lot of non-americans on this thread.
I am an american and I agree with a lot of them.
We are too fat.
I am too fat.
Nonetheless, Jobs compared to a year ago, the difference is striking. His cheeks, his shoulders, his pics, his legs.
Yes, a man’s health is between him and his family and doctor.
But hell, we love the guy, and what he’s accomplished at Apple since he’s been back in charge.
So all’s fair for respectful conjecture on the matter.
I think there is little doubt that Steve’s health is not that great.
The last time we saw the man, at the Cupertino council meeting thing, it was clear that he was a bit frail.
I was hoping that we’d see him spring back with this WWDC, but when they announced weeks ago that he’d be hosting a group of Apple execs to preview Leopard, I’m sorry, but that immediately spelled some trouble. That said, I think he did a great job at MCing the event.
I’m looking at it like this: Steve has brilliantly created a huge amount of buzz with his various keynotes, for pennies on the dollar of traditional marketing.
But Apple’s marketing is going to have to attempt to fill his shoes, as much as they can, in a limited-Steve world.
There may not be a charismatic figure to take over for some time, if ever.
I’m sure he’ll be guiding the reins for years to come, but maybe the big Stevenote event is a thing of the past. I’m glad I got to see one in person years ago in NYC.
Here’s hoping not.
Buddha bless, Steve.
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Your problem is that you are so used to the “fat American” look that anyone that is in their correct weight category looks thin. You hang around too much with programmers whose diet consists of Dr. Pepper, Twinkies and McDonalds.
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BZZT wrong.
I’m used to the “skinny Asian” look, thank you. I know what a healthy-but-thin, non-United-States-junkfood-diet body looks like.
Steve is either presently ill or recovering from some illness not disclosed, or he is off the meds he was using from after his illness.
But he is underweight for his frame. He is fumbling for words and walking gingerly.
Get real and stop acting like only those that care about Steve Jobs are the ones that insist he is A-OK and tip top health.
If anything, the snobbish vegans and Europeans are doing Steve a disservice for being so unconcerned, just for them to be able to get in a few digs at the typical fat American’s expense.
Gee, thanks, Steve! What a great idea!!! Let’s start a rumor to help drive down Apple’s stock price!! What a great concept!!
One of the dangers of the internet is that anyone can say just about anything, regardless of whether there is any factual basis for it. But hey, if you read it on the internet, then it MUST be true!
Steve, consider well the impact of your words. Rather than spew up whatever is your first reaction, and instead of writing a ready-fire-aim piece like that which you did here, THINK. STOP AND THINK. Brushfire rumors get started this way. And the next thing you know, Wall Street and Microsoft PR will get ahold of what you wrote, and twist it in ways that you can scarcely imagine.
Before you next write another blog, consider well the words of Mark Twain:
“Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.”
OK, Steve looks thinner. OK. But did anyone notice what is really important.
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I think Steve is LOSING his hair.!!! Really. It looks like he has less hair than last year.
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IMHO, Schiller is the guy who looks unhealthy…..
so how tall is Steve?
at 5’10”, the healthy range is 135 and 170…..
the cracker-barrel crowd views 225 as average
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He did look thinner but he doesn’t look ill. My guess for why he tag teamed the presentation is, there has been so much talk about what will happen when he eventually steps down, that he wants to make Apple less about Steve Jobs and put some other faces out there in the open.
As for Bertrand Serlett, I thought he was hilarious! I’ve never thought much of Schiller’s public speaking, but I thought Scott Forstall was excellent, and I could definitely see him as a possible successor for the public face of Apple.
I noticed the same thing while watching the last few keynotes. Last year’s WWDC, the Macworld Expo in January, and this year’s WWDC.
Steve looks ill, weakly, sickly, and unfocused.
The folks over at Mac360 and Wired News say the same thing as Steve Jack.
Steve Jobs needs a heir apparent, a successor waiting in the wings. Either that, or a couple of good steaks.
My wife noticed and commented on the same thing, that he looked “skinny”, not trim.
As for me, I think he just needed a shave, really badly. You know you have too much power when every employee in your company is afraid to say to you “Steve, can you clean up just a little, before you address the entire Mac community via webcast?”
I thing it is a sign that the MagSafe cables are affecting his health. Beware the MagSafe cables! /sarcasm
Maybe the sparkle was not there because he had to cut part of his presentation (because the product was not quite ready). That usually pisses him off enough to appear to be sick and tired.
You are concerned about Steve? As someone said you should be converned about Phil, he’s overweight and stumbles a lot when making presentations. He must be sick!
Face it, Steve is getting older and he must think about the future, some day he is going to step down that day there must be people replacing him who have the customer’s trust and experience of keynotes. The earlier he starts to gradually share the responsibilities the better.
And come on, Bertrand Serlet is one of the coolest guys at Apple, if you can’t understand him the problem is you not him. I understand him perfectly and I’m not even a native english speaker, just try harder.
The problem with cancer is that it is so unpredictable.
My uncle had curable cancer…and they cured it, but then about a year later they said cancer had spread to other parts of his body. It took 5 years from the time they “cured” him until he died of cancer in another part of his body.
My mother-in-law is the same basic story. Cured her. She was doing great for year or so and then slowly, slowly she started withering away. They found cancer in other parts of her body.
She went for surgery last December and passed away in later May. They could not give her chemotherapy or radiation therapy because they said that would kill her faster.
Steve has that gaunt withering away look that my relatives had.
From what I lived with my relatives who had cancer, don´t go counting on Steve giving the presentation at the January Macworld. Unless some miracle happens.
It´s too bad. My sympathy goes to him and his family.
This whole “it’s none of our business” line is tired and moot.
Of course it is none of our business, a person’s health info is confidential.
This, however, only means he has no obligation to disclose the info to us.
Poor taste notwithstanding, it doesn’t mean we can’t speculate about it or chat about it so long as we aren’t outright slanderous or libelous.
Interest in Steve’s health does prove to me “there is a well founded public interest in the specific information being widely known”…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_comment
Don’t even talk about such things! Too scary to even harbor a single thought bubble on it.
MDN MW=”family” Yikes. STEVE is like family! In fact I would miss him more than I would some of my real relatives! (Esp. a couple of them)
Don’t even talk about such things! Too scary to even harbor a single thought bubble on it. Don’t jinx him.
MDN MW=”family” Yikes. STEVE is like family! In fact I would miss him more than I would some of my real relatives! (Esp. a couple of them)
That gaunt Lincoln-like look.
Well maybe he’s got diabetes? It’s basically a pancreatic disorder…just sayin’.
Leander Kahney wrote an op-ed piece in wired.com that more or less asked the same question of whether or not Jobs is ill. Maybe we’re looking too much into this, maybe not. Either way, I’m hoping that Jobs looks better by the time Macworld ’07 rolls around.
I hope I’m wrong in my assessment but he has the classic look of someone with HIV/AIDS – he’s just withering away. He still has all his hair so I doubt its cancer. Let’s face it, this isn’t some “health kick gone haywire” where he decided he’d drop to 90 lbs. Something’s definitely up but no doubt you won’t hear a peep from Apple’s reality-distortion-field a.k.a. ‘p.r. department’ – just some spin if he ever falls over in the apple office that he has ‘pneumonia’ or something.
I think he is extremely sick, and I have thought so for a while.
I was shocked by his thin appearance at Macworld back in January, and the fact that he coughed his way through the presentation and seemed to lose his place.
He was far worse at WWDC. Thin, occasionally confused, and apparently not able to complete the entire keynote by himself. I think he will not be the CEO of Apple computer for much longer. If he really is sick, he should be spending the time with his family and not wasting time bringing new widgets to market.
I wouldn’t have the sick feeling I do if my own father hadn’t died of pancreatic cancer (he had the worse type), and if Jobs didn’t look just like he did when he started to get quite sick.
I hope I am wrong.
Get a life
“Get a life”
Get a soul.
Steve Jack is a moron.
Eat a Steak or 3,
Your link was hilarious! Many of you
have probably seen that before,
but I haven’t. Balmer is such an
idiot. Developers, developers,
developers!
bill gates wrote: “He still has all his hair so I doubt its cancer.”
Not true – one only loses their hair if they take the chemo or radiation therapy. My relative died of cancer with a full head of hair – didn´t take chemo or radiation.
Steve is definitely seriously sick.
If Steve was not a public figure I guess it would be none of our business, but he is the CEO of Apple computer and on the Board of Directors of Disney. He has impact on two very large, influential companies. Owners of the stock of those companies have the right to know what is going on with his health. This is a common sense question asked of all CEOs.
ok just so you guys dont get out of control on this, STEVE JOBS WAS NEVER SICk.
the tumor they found was NOT malignant. there was a tumor, they cut it out, end of story.
DO you get it!!! the guy doesnt shove hamburgers down his throat, so hes not a fat bastard, that all.
people that dont eat meat tend to be leaner (duh), hes 51 years old. Its healthier to be thin than be over weight and have your arteries blocked with fat and straining to pump blood around your body, and evertually die of a heart-attack.
yea so the guy looked at his notes more, so what!! again the guys 51 years old, cut em a break, i mean seriously, the guy looks at his notes and everyone starts saying the guys going to die.
wtf!!
Graphanalyzer: Well NO $HIT people lose their hair from the chemo rather than the cancer – I was saving space by not stating the obvious for the short-bus crowd.
Carlo: So your assessment is “he doesn’t eat hamburgers” and that is supposed to explain his thin, gangly appearance while coughing his way through the presentation and not being able to finish it without someone else taking over for him? Do us a favor and post your email address so when they finally announce his condition we can email you and ask what him “not being overweight” had to do with it. I bet you’re a mac user.
Once there get to be 5000 posts on a topic, why bother to post, since it all becomes white noise after about the 10-15th post…
Then again, if that’s true, no one is probably reading this either.
FWIW, i think steve just looks like a guy that bucks the average american trend of being so fat that they need to be wheeled around on a cart or falter under their own body weight.
It’s lighting –
Besides this is a pathetic attempt to spread FUD about apple.
To Bobby Skinner:
Steve is 51 not 61. We were born the same year, so it’s easy for me to remember. Easier than where are my freakin’ car keys.
there are 2 types of pancreatic cancer, one slow-growing, one fast-growing. From what he said at the time, he had the slow-growing variety. The fast-growing type will kill you within a couple of months. The slow-growing variety takes a couple of years. The 5-year survival rates are 50% if you catch the slow-type soon enough though. The question is, did they catch it before it metastasized? (again, both types will spread, one just a lot faster than the other)
Is Steve Jack Sick?
Yeah, Freddy thinks so. Steve Jack, you are out of line. Steve Jobs heads up Apple Computer and has an interesting and fun job. That does not give you the right to speculate on what is entirely personal matters.
Freddy’s gut says that The Steve is just fine, but a lot of other people around here need some serious meds.
This has to be one of the most retarted posts in MDN to date. Come on just get of his jock already. Yes, I love Apple, own a Mac and an iPod, admire Steve Jobs, but this kind of crap borders on sickly obsession, with some sort of cheap novel undercurrent. Get a grip!!!
Not to mention that this is SteveJack’s second editorial asking these types of questions. His first was entitled something like, “What happens to Apple when Steve Jobs leaves or dies?” You guys make a big deal out of Enquirer-type stories, then you post one equally as bad. You guys are “journalists” – have you tried contacting Steve or Apple to ask?
What do people want? A sweating fat fuck like Ballmer?
That said Steve J should go back to his 1984 look.
Anyone is going to look bad in stubble.
I agree that Steve looked thin.
But then he’s 51 years old, he’s had cancer in the last couple of years and, there’s been just a little bit going on at both of his companies in the last year and a half or so.
I’m willing to bet he was short on sleep, has been under a great deal of stress with the options situation and prepping for this keynote. He’s also been at the head of a company that has radically changed it’s entire product line in just over six months. Fortunately we all know he’s not a micro-manager (joke).
And all of that’s been said above.
I have a different perspective on it. I work in advertising. I used to work at one of Apple’s ad agencies and I’ve worked directly with Mr Jobs. He doesn’t do anything half way. He’s ALWAYS the smartest and most on-target person in the room. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen him shut down a legend in my field – and be totally, absolutely correct in doing so. He’s passionate and he’s totally present when he’s involved in something. I’ve never seen anyone in my life with his intense powers of concentration.
And that has to be physically wearing when you’re in middle age and a cancer survivor.
I think his health is probably fine, he’s just a bit worn down.
As to the other presenters, I’ve gotten used to Phil Schiller, he’s the Keynote Komic Relief® and the fact that he’s a bit of a dorky buffoon is kind of a nice relief from Steve’s relentless coolness.
Bertrand Serlet’s timing was impeccable and I had no trouble understaning him (and I’m a native American English speaker, actually a SF Bay Area native). I thought he was hilarious and his deadpan delivery was spot-on.
Scott Forstall was just fine. He had the right amount of enthusiasm and obvious competence. He also had the coolest thing in the entire OS presentation to show – and that helps.
To sum this rambling note up, I’m fine with the tag-team style of the keynote and I expect that they’ll be like this from now on. It’s a good thing because we’re finally getting to see some of the other people at Apple and perhaps we’re even getting an inkling of what the future might hold. I’d love to see Jonathan Ive on that stage at some point…
As a long-time Apple stockholder, I was pleased with the keynote.
And, boy howdy do I want Leopard – can anyone say Time Machine?
Mark
Because Apple’s health is so heavily reliant on Steve’s, if he had anything life-threatening he’d be duty-bound to inform the market. I put it down to a change of lifestyle or treatment since the cancer scare.
I agree that Steve looked thin.
But then he’s 51 years old, he’s had cancer in the last couple of years and, there’s been just a little bit going on at both of his companies in the last year and a half or so.
I’m willing to bet he was short on sleep, has been under a great deal of stress with the options situation and prepping for this keynote. He’s also been at the head of a company that has radically changed it’s entire product line in just about seven months. Fortunately we all know he’s not a micro-manager (joke).
And all of that’s been said above.
I have a different perspective on it. I work in advertising. I used to work at one of Apple’s ad agencies and I’ve worked directly with Mr Jobs. He doesn’t do anything half way. He’s ALWAYS the smartest and most on-target person in the room. I’m not kidding. I’ve seen him shut down a legend in my field – and be totally, absolutely correct in doing so. He’s passionate and he’s totally present when he’s involved in something. I’ve never seen anyone in my life with his intense powers of concentration.
And that has to be physically wearing when you’re in middle age and a cancer survivor.
I think his health is probably fine, he’s just a bit worn down.
As to the other presenters, I’ve gotten used to Phil Schiller, he’s the Keynote Komic Relief® and the fact that he’s a bit of a dorky buffoon is kind of a nice relief from Steve’s relentless coolness.
Bertrand Serlet’s timing was impeccable and I had no trouble understaning him (and I’m a native American English speaker, actually a SF Bay Area native). I thought he was hilarious and his deadpan delivery was spot-on.
Scott Forstall was just fine. He had the right amount of enthusiasm and obvious competence. He also had the coolest thing in the entire OS presentation to show – and that helps.
To sum this rambling note up, I’m fine with the tag-team style of the keynote and I expect that they’ll be like this from now on. It’s a good thing because we’re finally getting to see some of the other people at Apple and perhaps we’re even getting an inkling of what the future might hold. I’d love to see Jonathan Ive on that stage at some point…
As a long-time Apple stockholder, I was pleased with the keynote.
And, boy howdy do I want Leopard – can anyone say Time Machine?
Mark
I’m a Pescetarian and have been since college. I just completed an Ironman and I run, ride and swim about 20 hours a week. Being a Pescetarian does not lead to thinness.
That said, wow, this is a lot of idle speculation. At the end of the day Mr. Jobs either is or isn’t sick and either will or will not chose to comment on it. One poster mentioned stock holders- I think if Mr. Jobs were sick he’d have a responsibility to share that with the BOD, but not the general shareholder population.
Regardless, Mr. Jobs could walk away from Apple tomorrow and he will have done more for it, and us, than can be repaid, much of it perhaps not entirely tangible.
I am shocked, but I shouldn’t be that others saw this also. As a apple supporter, stock holder and cancer doctor I see this every day. The type of cancer he has is “sometimes” curable, unlike the more common type of pancreatic cancer. If I had to guess, I would say his cancer has recurred and had probably spread before they did his surgery, hence the weight loss all of you saw and his awkwardness on stage and need to have the others involved.
I’m afraid he is mortal after all. As we know there is no one else like him. We could see that Schiller and the others are not him, but it will take all of us to save what he created and returned to create, but I think his time is coming near even though none of thus like to think about this.
Don’t panic, keep the stock strong and let’s find another with creativity and charisma like he had, although it may take time. If we panic, we are letting him down.
saw the presentation. thought he looked slim, maybe he’s doing tantric yoga techniques. to me he just looks like a guy who just came back from vacation. he seemed the same to me. the only difference was in the format of the presentation, where he acted more like an mc. he looks healthly. he looked like he lost the middle age pouch. lots of people giving up sugar and such and eating south beach way.
It is actually Dr. Serlet
When the cancer scare first came to light, Steve said he was expected to make a full recovery. Apple’s fortunes are so dependant on his health that if he had a life-threatening condition he’d be duty-bound to disclose it. I put it down to a change in lifestyle and/or treatment since the scare.
Let’s hope Steve is okay. He’s done a lot of great things — including being responsible for furthering computer capabilities for the masses.
He is one of the most passionate persons I have ever known of. He is so full of life!
He does look much too thin. I think if he was sick, he would not be wasting time at Apple, he would be with his family. He may be possibly doing some treatment to make sure he never gets cancer or some other kind of detoxification method. I’m guessing he will gain back some lbs soon. Eating ice cream is the quickest way for that to happen.Is there such a thing as organic ice cream?
Problem is, if you get sick, you usually lose some lbs. That is why he needs to gain some back, kind of like having extra RAM when you need it when running a second OS in VMWare or Parallels.
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there are 2 types of pancreatic cancer, one slow-growing, one fast-growing. From what he said at the time, he had the slow-growing variety.
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IS TAHT “TEH GOOD KIND”?
Since when is thin bad? What do people want, a sweating fat fuck like Ballmer?
That said, SJ should bring back his 1984 look. Anyone will look bad in stubble.
carlo: “he tumor they found was NOT malignant. there was a tumor, they cut it out, end of story.”
If so then he has some other cancer or sickness.
Easy to clear up – APPLE PR dept – issue a definitive statement on Steve´s health. Or better yet, Steve, come out and make a statement.
Wow, love the self-righteousness of the non-Americans in this thread! Must be great to be a perfect, the thin pinnacle of European perfection, Truly you are all gods among mere mortals (read: all of us fat slovenly white Americans). Also note the dripping sarcasm.
Get over yourselves.
Could some of these posts be any more stereotypical? Pathetic.
I really take exception to the tone of all this FUD manure spreading. It’s one thing to have concern for a beloved CEO, it’s quite another to openly speculate and create uncertainty, fear, doubt…
STEVE JOBS LOOKED F-ING GREAT. HE SOUNDED GREAT. He has as much vitality, poise, presence and boom in his voice as ever. He was strutting and shufflin’ with top energy. HE LOOKED ON F-FORM!
THE TAG-TEAM WAS EFFECTIVE AND POSITIVE AND DAZZLING. You wouldn’t expect Jobs to droll on for over an hour on all the minutae of that stuff, that would be more boring than the tag-team which gave color and variety and multiple perspectives.
MAC PRO LOOKED GREAT. LEOPARD LOOKED GREAT. Time Machine and Spaces alone are going to have Redmond spies sweating and salivating.
We all care about SJ. That’s not the same as permission to create vile rumors about his health which have NO F-ING BASIS in the reality of his performance and presentation.
All of us are gonna die some day.
There have been no denials from Endless Loop Way. I think that is very telling. He did lack vitality, in my opinion, in the WWDC keynote.
Time will tell. Life without Steve Jobs pushing us into a way cooler world is a very sad thing to contemplate.
In a way it is good that this article has run. If it is true, it has been insider information for some time now.
It may have some bearing on why the stock of a company that is doing everything so very well, with financial numbers to support it, cannot sustain a price rally.
We all deserve to know the truth.
Cancer is a terrible thing.
Enjoy everyday of your life.
it really concerns me that so few of you actually seem to know wat gaunt looks like. Steve Jobs looked good,. If that is now our standard of “gaunt” we are a more seriously obese nation than I thought. Do you guys actually know anyone who is in shape?
Noah Wyle should be Steves replacement!
Yes, Steve is thinner. However, if he were a bit thinner and still bounding with enthusiasm nobody would say ‘Boo’. The reason Steve’s keynotes lately have been lacklustre is to me obvious. He has been presiding over a period of transition, from PowerPC to Intel, in which the main watchword has to be ‘stay the course’ and they have intentionally not experimented with new enclosures in order to reassure everyone that they are getting the same old Macs. At the same time, OS X has reached a point of maturity in which software upgrades, while exciting and innovative, start to seem like just icing on the cake.
It all adds up to not a very inspiring environment in which to be a Keynote presenter. I bet Steve has been thinking, maybe I should hand over some of these less momentous keynotes to a talented up-and-comer in the company who is a good speaker. And that is probably Scott Forestal.
Steve has been putting in the time himself mostly to reassure us that the Mac isn’t changing. But now that this transition is over, I think, in the next year, we should see them start to push the envelope again on hardware (hey, they must have wanted to go for performance-per-watt for a REASON — I bet there are some really interesting enclosures coming down the pike). Nothing gets Steve’s juices flowing like an amazing new piece of hardware — and I’m not talking about specs.
I bet that we will see Steve return to his sparkling style sometime in the next year. Provided he doesn’t die of cancer first.
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I’m not going to beat around the bush here. Many of us are thinking the same thing. Nobody wants to say it, but I will: I’m worried that Bill Gates is sick.
I’m not saying he is sick, I’m saying that I’m worried that he’s sick. I’ve also been getting emails about the subject, too.
Look this picture below:
Bill Gates 2004
Bill Gates 2006
Really, who care’s these “news”?
Bertrand Serlet? I’m French myself but at first I wondered if he was an actor supposed to entertain the audience. He may be very good at his job but should’nt speak in public in English. I had a hard time understanding him.
I agree. Enough is enough. You are like bunch of old biddies spreading rumors as fact!
THE BOARD DOES NOT WANT JOBS HOGGING THE LIMELIGHT
It is that simple. If anyone was looking at a weakness for Apple, they’d have to conclude that it has become even more of a Cult of Steve Jobs, especially in the last 4 or 5 years. Since being back at Apple for almost 10 years, it is becoming increasingly difficult for fans of the Mac to see Apple without him.
This keynote said something really important: Apple is a team of innovators, not just one man. For the sake of Apple, the move away from a Steve-only keynote can only be good.
Considering Steve recently finished a bout of pancreatic cancer, I don’t think the speculation is completely unwarranted. I do hope the man is cancer-free and generally healthy.
About the keynote address – any decent company has succession planning. It really is a must regardless of the apparent health of the CEO. Perhaps Steve is beginning to loosen his reigns to see who’s got what it takes? I hope back-dating of stock options isn’t going to the thing that boots SJ out for a second time (or bad health).
Hi, the first thing I said to the guys, after seeing 10 seconds of the keynote was : damn, Steve looks sick to me, he’ is too skinny. Hope his cancer did’nt came back.
So, yes i’m worried too, so Steve, just tell us you’re fine !!
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Like most I was concerned. Steve Jobs is one of the few that came from nothing and built something first, and got it right.Their are maybe 3-4 truely creative inventors in the computer world that can do that. I heard a stupid comment from many mag’s and it was this “Apple is Steve Jobs, and can apple survive without him?”
Um no.
Physic’s is Einstein, and netscape was James Barksdale, and caesar was rome. Of course a company, government, science is nothing without the person that did it. India fell into ruin after gondi died. No apple can not survive so stop asking, no one has, read a book.
If steve jobs is sick then the world of computing is about to get allot more boring. If he dies the computer world will suffer too. Hes one of the few that can do it.
Do I think he’s sick , na he was open to talk about it last time, and I’m sure he would display the same class, and it’s none of our business. Can MS survive without gates predatory practices , no. People make companies.
I truely hope you are ok Mr. Jobs, and its none of my business. My interest is a selfish one, your very cool to have around and the computer world would suffer without you.
That said I believe, actually leopard is a OS that Job is adding enhancements, so that it will not be a minor upgrade. I believe hes declaring war, and is willing to risk it all, its his nature.
I hope in my heart of hearts two things:
1. That Steve Jobs is OK. I love that guy so much.
2. That in my wildest dreams my French is ever as good as that French dude’s English.
He bought a bicycle some time ago, and he was very happy. That could be the reason.
1) Steve knows more about his own body than anyone else does, and he has a right to tell us about it and the right to *NOT* tell us about it.
The computer business is more like the Tour de France and less like the Superbowl. Psychological strategy means a lot, and there have been situations where opponents have allowed themselves to look weak in order to get their adversaried to become over-confident.
Is that what’s happening here?
None of my business.
2) The second and more important reason for me to post is a prior comment made by Jeff:
“He’s not sick, he’s a vegan. This is what people who don’t eat enough protein look like. This is also what people look like who don’t consume fast food.”
There’s a positive aspect of this comment coupled with a negative spin, and I am not sure which one Jeff was going for.
What concerns me is the implication, whether intentional or not, that vegans don’t get enough protein.
“He’s not sick, he’s a vegan. This is what people who don’t eat enough protein look like.”
It’s almost impossible for any American <i>who’s eating enough calories<i> to NOT get enough protein, even without eggs or dairy products, unless all that’s being eaten are empty calories. Resorting to counterfeit meat, like soy hot dogs (which I happen to eat for variety, by the way) is also unnecessary for sufficient protein.
The typical adult human requires only 11% of his diet to be protein, since he is no longer doing any major vertical growth. Eleven per cent is all he needs to grow hair, nails, skin, and to maintain self-repair (that is, a healthy immune system).
If all you ate for every meal of every day of your adult life were baked potatoes, you would not develop a protein deficiency. You’d be a bit vitamin deficient, but not protien deficient.
Even breastmilk, the perfect food for human babies, the perfect food for growing at the at the fastest rate in one’s entire lifetime… even human breastmilk consists of a mere 5% in protein.
AS I said, if all a person eats is junk food, they will get sick (although to the other extreme of weight gain, not weight loss). Jeff adds this to his comment with his 3rd sentence about fast food. However, by that time, in the mind of the reader, the damage has already been done.
Whatever is going on with Steve’s body, protein deficiency it is not.
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1) Steve knows more about his own body than anyone else does, and he has a right to tell us about it and the right to *NOT* tell us about it.
The computer business is more like the Tour de France and less like the Superbowl. Psychological strategy means a lot, and there have been situations where opponents have allowed themselves to look weak in order to get their adversaried to become over-confident.
Is that what’s happening here?
None of my business.
2) The second and more important reason for me to post is a prior comment made by Jeff:
“He’s not sick, he’s a vegan. This is what people who don’t eat enough protein look like. This is also what people look like who don’t consume fast food.”
There’s a positive aspect of this comment coupled with a negative spin, and I am not sure which one Jeff was going for.
What concerns me is the implication, whether intentional or not, that vegans don’t get enough protein.
“He’s not sick, he’s a vegan. This is what people who don’t eat enough protein look like.”
It’s almost impossible for any American <i>who’s eating enough calories<i> to NOT get enough protein, even without eggs or dairy products, unless all that’s being eaten are empty calories. Resorting to counterfeit meat, like soy hot dogs (which I happen to eat for variety, by the way) is also unnecessary for sufficient protein.
The typical adult human requires only 11% of his diet to be protein, since he is no longer doing any major vertical growth. Eleven per cent is all he needs to grow hair, nails, skin, and to maintain self-repair (that is, a healthy immune system).
If all you ate for every meal of every day of your adult life were baked potatoes, you would not develop a protein deficiency. You’d be a bit vitamin deficient, but not protien deficient.
Even breastmilk, the perfect food for human babies, the perfect food for growing at the at the fastest rate in one’s entire lifetime… even human breastmilk consists of a mere 5% in protein.
AS I said, if all a person eats is junk food, they will get sick (although to the other extreme of weight gain, not weight loss). Jeff adds this to his comment with his 3rd sentence about fast food. However, by that time, in the mind of the reader, the damage has already been done.
Whatever is going on with Steve’s body, protein deficiency it is not.
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If we have a look at the keynote presentation in apple , we can notice the change in Steve Jack. Anyway it’s a great news .
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Steve Jobs is happily recuperating from a bout of Pancreatic Cancer. He is doing quite well now. When he appeared at the 2008 Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), the media made such a fuss about his apparent weight loss after returning to work that he chose to take more time off.
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