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Apple’s Personality in Chief Takes Medical Leave

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Posted on Jan 17, 2011
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No other company is as dependent on one man as Apple is on Steve Jobs. That’s the perception anyway, so when the Apple CEO announced he is taking another medical leave, the murmurs about the fate of the world’s second-most-valuable company began immediately.

The reality is that there are very capable people running Apple’s show, and in the coming year they’re expected to announce a new iPad, a new iPhone and plenty of other ways to redistribute your wealth in their direction.  —PZS

Bloomberg Businessweek:

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, a cancer survivor, took a leave of absence to focus on his health, putting the company in the hands of Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook for the third time in seven years.

Cook will be responsible for the day-to-day operations, with Jobs continuing as CEO, Apple said today, citing an e-mail to employees from Jobs. The Apple co-founder took an almost six-month break to have a liver transplant in 2009.

“I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can,” Jobs, 55, said in the e-mail. Jobs said he will continue to “be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.”

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Mike789's avatar

By Mike789, January 18, 2011 at 9:37 am Link to this comment

“Ruined Apple” ? Not so sure.

I simply hope, as a big-c survivor, he prevails, health wise.

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By esi42, January 18, 2011 at 4:33 am Link to this comment

Marshall, there is no left or right.  Those are terms created to divide us.

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By Marshall, January 18, 2011 at 2:32 am Link to this comment

“your contributions offer unconditional gratuities unusual for competitive
capitalism”

I don’t know exactly what the first part of this sentence means, but i would say
you could reword the last part to be: “unusual for anything but competitive
capitalism”.  Apple’s probably the one company that those on the left will admit
to liking, yet they see it as an anomaly rather than a counterexample to their
belief that government does a better job at everything than the private sector
does.

Here’s another one I find fascinating: The Internet.  The left will often claim that
it was government that brought it to us.  Indeed, the army invented the basic
infrastructure - already a contradiction to the left’s belief that all military
spending is unnecessary spending.  But the fact is that the Internet was nothing
until the WWW was added to it, which only became popular because private
businesses and entrepreneurial startups began using it.  The left’s logic often
eludes me.

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By Rachael, January 17, 2011 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment
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Who cares about Steve Jobs!? He has ruined Apple! He never should have come back in the first place! The Apple product is nothing like it started out! Hopefully we won’t see him again alive or otherwise!

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By PatrickHenry, January 17, 2011 at 5:29 pm Link to this comment

I’m sure he can telework.

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By rollzone, January 17, 2011 at 4:23 pm Link to this comment

hello. when do we meet his clone? i guess he will be
perfecting his holographic personification and perhaps
never appear again, except as a tutorial from an app. i
pray for your recovery, Mr. Jobs, as your intellect is
always welcome in every environment. your contributions
offer unconditional gratuities unusual for competitive
capitalism- and refreshing among corporate investment
sharks. you make markets, and we benefit: very well
done.

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