Everybody flip out! (Sayeth SJ: “I just didn’t want to miss this.”)
Steve Jobs
Japan’s economy may suffer unless visiting executives such as Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs can more easily jet in and out of the country by private aircraft, said a Japanese business aviation group. Jobs vowed never to return to Japan after he was forced to ditch ninja throwing stars found in his luggage on his way to boarding his private jet at Kansai International Airport, Japan’s SPA! magazine reported this week, citing unidentified airport officials. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said the incidents described in SPA didn’t take place. “Complaints from private jet passengers do happen fairly frequently,” Kazunobu Sato, vice chairman of the Japan Business Aviation Association, said in an interview yesterday in Tokyo. “The strength of Japanese businesses will slowly decline if business jet use doesn’t increase.” [Bloomberg]
We missed this a few weeks ago but since their colleagues begged for a post-as-wedding-gift, here ya go. Lovebirds Josh and Ting Li exchanged vows on Valentine’s Day at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store. Ting came up with the idea to have the ceremony (and include the phrase “I love you more than [an iPhone]” in her vows) because her man first worked up the courage to strike up a conversation with her when he heard she was looking to by an iPod, and from there their love of “everything Apple bloomed.” So, kind of cute, if you’re into shit that inspires tears and hurt feelings in Vikram Pandit. ‘Cause you know what these two failed to mention? That their loved blossomed at Citi, where they worked together for two years (and where Josh still works as a VP in the Equity Capital Markets Group). Fuckers should’ve wed in the space allocated for the Zen Garden. Alwaleed or Parsons would’ve gotten ordained. But, whatever! Best wishes and all that.
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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.
Patients with Jobs’s condition can survive for 20 years or more from the time of their original cancer diagnosis, and the surgery often gives good results, said Steven Brower, professor and chairman of surgery at Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia. Brower hasn’t treated Jobs and doesn’t know details of his condition.
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
As you know, a lot of Apple shareholders have been freaking out over the life expectancy of a suddenly skinny Steve Jobs, causing several days of erratic trading, with AAPL down us much as ten percent on Tuesday, and two percent this morning. Though the SEC has no hard and fast rules regarding disclosure of a CEO’s health, a whole bunch of “experts” have put in their two cents on the matter, urging the company to be “as transparent as possible” by making a “public announcement” about what’s up. Though historically Apple has been less than an open book, and was criticized in 2003 for not telling the world about Jobs’s pancreatic cancer until after the tumor was removed, it seems that we’re finally breaking them.
Are there other things about SJ you’ve always wanted to know that we could claim may affect his ability to carry out his responsibilities? Now is the time to hit these bitches hard. Here are a few issues we’d like to be read in on (please add your demands below. I know we can crack them). 1. Sexual conquests, including name, act, method of birth control, location of act and how much time was spent laying groundwork (anything longer than 20 minutes is money out of shareholders’ pockets. I want fish in barrels, not dinner and drinks, which is time that could be better spent developing the next iWhatever). 2. Drug usage– how much did he pay and method of insertion. 3. Food– is SJ a 3-square meals a day type guy or a snacker, and if the latter, what kind of snacks? Is there a lot of high fructose corn syrup going on? 4. Recent playlists (what’s he running to? what’s he working to?) 5. This is more a general catch all but something we’d really be interested in is having a webcam on SJ, at all times.
Limited Disclosure On Jobs May Bite Apple [NYP]
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