Steve Jobs speaks out about his health

Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by gcv on Monday January 05, 2009 @09:57AM (#420494)

I am glad that Steve remains in pretty good health. Thank goodness. I'm a little disgusted at how all this concern about the quality of Apple gadgets and the price of Apple stock trumps simple human concern for a fellow human being.

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Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by SapphireSun on Monday January 05, 2009 @02:42PM (#420950)

I heard some of Job's speeches on philosophy and it really resonated with me. I think he's a really cool guy even if he's a bit arrogant. The real value is in who he is.

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Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by ruby_roo on Monday January 05, 2009 @03:30PM (#421050)

Wha..? Where would one go to read or hear these speeches?

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Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by SapphireSun on Monday January 05, 2009 @04:36PM (#421169)

Jobs gave an address to Stanford university's graduating class in 2005. Here's a link to youtube if you want to watch it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

It was quite interesting and spoke deeply to me.

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Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by jim-greer on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:16AM (#421713)

He covered his health in that speech, but according to this CNN piece he was pretty misleading.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f... (Scroll about 1/4 of the way down)

If he's going to talk about his health, he should be more straightforward than this.

I think once you're the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, your responsibilities to your shareholders mean that you need to be more forthcoming about your health than he has been.

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Re:Steve Jobs speaks out about his health by redrobot5050 on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @01:03PM (#422181)

No, you need to be more forthcoming with your board of directors, some of which (Al Gore) are close personal friends and can keep their mouth shut to the press if it really is a "private matter".

The fact that Apple's board hadn't take any action was (to me) a clear indication that he was A-Ok. Steve might be exceptional, but the rest of the senior management has Sarbanes-Oxley to contend with -- meaning they could face jailtime for any intentional falsification or misleading statements given to the board of directors. And the board/stockholders have been extremely watchful ever since the backdating options/SEC Probe scandal a year or so back.

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