Hope recent award of decade's CEO will help to recover from illness.
all notable tributes and quotes on Steve Jobs from peers: http://www.tributespaid.com/quotes-on/steve-jobs
Dawood1:58PM November 10, 2009
Naturally we all look at Steve Jobs as the visionary behind the Apple concept. Maybe it is time to leave the guy a little space and room for privacy. I am sure he has more issues to worry about and probably dislikes being constantly confronted in the media with questions about his health. He will return when he is ready for it and we all need to wish him a quick and sound recovery. Take your time Steve ... your 'fans' will welcome you back whenever YOU feel is the right time.
Cees WM Nieboer4:47AM January 18, 2009
I *so* agree with John's comment above. Hysteria over Jobs being Apple Personified hurts Apple unjustly -- and is a terrible dis to the good people who do amazingly creative work there. OK, sure, the company is more top-down than your average new media chaos. What this means is that they need someone really good to replace Jobs if he must leave on a more extended basis.
So, who is his lieutenant for his leave of absence? How will he/she do? I really believe that the press is overexerting their adrenals over Jobs' hormonals and it's making them ask the wrong questions.
Shava Neradof MA1:52PM January 16, 2009
Steve jobs has made apple what it is. When he leaves apple this time it will be different. The last time apple chased him out. Apple thought they could do better without him. This time apple knows better. Apple did the right thing because everyone will see that the company CAN and will continue Steve's vision. I hope I am wrong about this but when Steve does not return in June we shall see that the company continued on. We will see that things will be business as usual. It would not take a good researcher much time to realize that Steve Jobs has been preparing us for this for a while now. Go back and look at the last several key notes and see the transition of power. You will see that it is NOT Steve Jobs doing all the work. Apple has been a TEAM effort.
The other side to this is that if people keep freaking out over this and drive the stock price down they are just going to make smart people LOTS of money. The idiots are the ones that keep selling their apple stock at this low price... Keep driving it down so I can buy more!
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Dawood 1:58PM November 10, 2009
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