PRESS RELEASE: Apple Media Advisory
Dow Jones News Service via Dow Jones
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees:
Team,
I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to be a distraction not only for me and my family, but everyone else at Apple as well. In addition, during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.
Steve
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Didn’t read, too homeopathic.
That’s rotten.
“An Apple a day . . . ”
NOT.
best wishes to the worlds greatest ceo for a speedy recovery. jobs is one of a kind.
Too jibber, didn’t jabba.
@4 is a testament to “aapl” goole alerts.
And some morons promptly drop the stock 7%. Is he really worth that much to AAPL?
@7: yes. dumbass
Until June…so I guess it will be a sex change operation after all.
AAPL is just overvalued.
Hard to compete with something that owns the market and something that is free. Design is the new Ponzi.
The end of an era? Hope not. Very sad.
dude looks like he has AIDs and that letter is gay. i can see why he wants his privacy
A la Johnny Bravo – does Cook fit the Black “T”, Man?
@8 The question was supposed to be rhetorical. I didn’t need a fucking one word answer from you, douchebag.
I hear iChemo has killer apps.
slow uptake on this news. reuters had you by at least 20 minutes.
@15 – haha, and a clickwheel to adjust the morphine drip.
we’re not good people.
if any of you witless, laid-off, mid-managerial pieces of ratshit ever accomplish one nanoportion of Steve Jobs success hell will freeze over
http://www.hulu.com/watch/5547/family-guy-you-have-aids
@18 – nanoportion isn’t a word. by the way, you’re supposed to open the Macbook up to look at porn, not get off on the Apple logo on the cover.
oh noes @16!
@18…hmmmm…you been gettin’ rimjobs from ole Stevie boy?
@22, sorry, only an out of work serial loser who stays home in his p.j.s while consuming 12 cups of coffee and bestiality porn could dream up what occupies your deranged mangled mind
Looks like 18/23 found the thesaurus on his Macbook Air.
@23- if rim jobs are of the “deranged and mangled mind” you need to get out more.
@23 – ummmm…I don’t own pj’s – i sleep naked and i don’t know what bestiality porn is like – is it worthwile? everything else is pretty accurate
I just downloaded the catheter application for my iPhone. Now my sepsis drains at 3G speeds.
The guy is going to die and we are talking about bestiality porn?
Are humans still frequenting this site?
@28, sometimes I wonder. I really do.
Get well soon Steve.
In an age of epic Fail its nice to see a nice guy making money making actual stuff people want. Doesn’t mean the stock isn’t a little overvalued though.
Does this mean the MacBook Wheel will be delayed?
My iPod gently weeps.
Get well Steve.
Get Well Steve!
Get well Steve, you are truly one of the only CEOs in America who deserves what they get paid.
That being said, gotta be outta this stock until more is known.
I think he only takes a dollar and then the board forces him to take stock. And I think they pay for the airplane and its maintenance.
He is one of a kind, truly the best, a hard worker and as intuitive as his machines. Hope to see him back in June.
Maybe he can develop an iCancer device while he is out.
@36 – he needs to develop one that can cure Kaposi’s sarcoma
I’m all for crapping on idiots. If you run for public office and then bang a hooker, you deserve to be shit on. If you run a public company and then display the IQ of a newt in promptly flushing everyone’s money down the toilet, you deserve a golden shower at least.
But as far as I know, Steve Jobs isn’t a douchebag. He’s run a pretty successful company. He’s already beaten cancer once and now he’s sick again.
I wish him all the best. And let’s all save our witty ridicule for the real douchebags like Kerry Killinger and Eliot Spitzer and Angelo Mozilo.
I feel bad for Jobs, but Apple is a big public company, he is a key figure in creating the brand and the disclosure on this has been terribly managed. I think he is a brilliant guy, but they really should have been more upfront.
I wonder if his doctor had purchased put options on AAPL
@37
Is that public knowledge – that it is definitely KS?
Or are you just being homophobic?
Because that is a death sentence.
That guy deserved better.
Nah it would run out of battery before it cured him
neXT!
Hit me
Going going gone
Now I dialed 911 a long time ago
Don’t you see how late they’re reactin’
They only come and they come when they wanna
So get the morgue embalm the goner
They don’t care ’cause they stay paid anyway
They teach ya like an ace they can’t be betrayed
I know you stumble with no use people
If your life is on the line they you’re dead today
Late comings with the late comin’ stretcher
That’s a body bag in disguise y’all betcha
I call ‘em body snatchers quick they come to fetch ya?
With an autopsy ambulance just to dissect ya
They are the kings ’cause they swing amputation
Lose your arms, your legs to them it’s compilation
I can prove it to you watch the rotation
It all adds up to a funky situation
So get up get, get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get, get, get down
Late 911 wears the late crown
Well said, #38.
Steve Jobs is an incredible unique talent. He adds more value than any CEO on earth and only pays himself one dollar for it. Steve is a long term survivor of pancreatic cancer, a feat bordering on the miraculous. Anybody with a heart and a mind wishes him gods love and a speedy recovery.
Get well Steve.
i don’t wish ill health on anyone but what’s with mac fags forcing their love for some greedy company down everyones’ throat? ep, it’s great that you have some strange affinity for macs but this is not why i come here – stop. and i can’t help but laugh at the comments “he’s one of a kind” .. “one of the best” … lol… the guy is a good salesman… not the second coming of christ. let me guess… all of you voted for obama, drive VWs, and order your lattes with soy…..
@36, so bad… yet hilarious
- h’06
Steve Jobs and Henry Ford are heroes. Compare their good work of actually bringing products to market in a big way to the circle-jerks of Wall Street and recent Detroit, and … oh my.
Too sad; didn’t read
Was offline most of the day and I’m first reading this now. Truthfully, I am really disappointed in the level of comments here.
Gallows humor is one thing, and perhaps Steve’s disclosure was grossly mismanaged, but come on … the majority of these comments are just uncalled for.
There are plenty of well-deserving public figures out there for us to mock. But this is just sad.
Jobs’ vision created an icon and whether you embrace him or not, he made money honestly and from what I’ve heard, his behavior has been nothing short of ethical.
Sorry to call it out, but I know you guys are better than this.
Macs are made from Rearden Steel!
Can’t he back date his cancer treatment so he has a better chance of beating it?
When last week (was it only last week?) news about the hormone thing got out, frankly I had my doubts.
When I read the news about Jobs’ 5 months leave yesterday, I was both infuriated and sad.
Infuriated, because this “salami tactic” of presenting bad news in small slices for as long as possible, until there is now way around forcing the whole chunk down people’s/ investors’ throats, assumes that most people, especially investors, are complete idiots who’ll believe and swallow just about everything. That’s so … politics.
At the same time, I feel sad andreally sorry for Jobs. I hope that he’ll get well, for his own sake and that of his family and friends.
Is he irreplacable for his family and friends? Most certainly.
Is he irreplacable for Apple? I don’t know. I’d be hesitant to honk that “one of a kind” horn. But he certainly is one of the few people able to mesmerize others by his combination of, umm, (marketing)vision and charisma.
Disclosure: I own neither AAPL shares, nor a Mac nor an iPhone, nor (incredible but true) an iPod. Though I might get one of the latter.
Never a good idea to own a stock that’s tied to the fate of one man’s pulse, unless you own a lot of “Key Man” insurance.
Then again, in the words of Charles DeGaulle, “The graveyards are full of ‘indispensable men’.”
@51> Well said. Mr. Jobs is the John Gault, Henry Ford of our generation.
Speedy recovery, Steve.
I think he has a malignancy; I’ve never seen a “hormone imbalance” cause that much weight loss (cachexia).
If I get cancer, will you guys love me too?
-Bill Gates