Apple says Steve Jobs feeling a little under the weather recently - Page 4

Originally Posted by macFanDave

Er, actually he has two. A Bachelor's degree in God-knows-what from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. I guess that extree book-larnin' gives Dubya what he need to bring dat dang-good presidentin' for all dese nigh-on eight years to Murica and we Muricans.

Originally Posted by ouragan

Nonsense deleted - JL

Originally Posted by Celemourn

*snicker* that comment is even funnier cause you're from texas!

Originally Posted by jcsegenmd

I didn't see anyone else notice the the profit margin on a £$200 iPhone is pretty slim

observe, mes amis, a comment by Gregg Keizer, Computerworld July 03, 2007

Apple's iPhone profit margin greater than 50 percent
Tear-down analysis by iSuppli finds that $333 out of the $599 price for the 8GB iPhone is profit for Apple, a margin of nearly 56 percent

Even if they sell 20 million that drastic a drop in price is an oddity, as the profit margin is pretty thin; $299 I could see, even $249, but $199? They'll be selling out at that price and not making a lot of money

why?

Originally Posted by SpamSandwich

NOTE: I have no idea why, but every time I "quote" someone my reply is placed in the wrong time position in these threads.... ADMIN!!!

Originally Posted by teonyc

While watching the stream of the Keynote, I noticed how gaunt he looked. He also just seemed frail overall, the way he moved, etc.

Ever since he was treated for cancer, Apple has been trotting out other officers in these presentations, trying to plan for a transition. It seemed especially true this time when Jobs did less than half of the Keynote.

While I hope whatever is ailing him (be it transient or serious) is resolved soon.

Originally Posted by ouragan

It's time for another leader, this time with a university education, to emerge and do so much better than Steve Jobs could ever do

Originally Posted by Stuart Kirby

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People seem to be using the most unflattering picture of Steve. It's like he's trying desperately to blow a bubble from blu-tac!

I'm sure it's nothing serious. What is?! He's looking a bit thin ... bloody hell, he's not -that- much thinner! If it is something serious I hope to heaven he's ok, but I just don't see it. Fingers crossed.

Originally Posted by Rot'nApple

What does a "university education" have to do with anything?

Obama graduated from Columbia, has a J. D. from Harvard Law School and give "lectures" at University of Chicago Law School, but this man is dumber than George W. Bush if it were not for someone writing his speeches and a teleprompter!

Don't believe me... ever see this man speak on the fly on subject matter over his head? Although the mainstream media will not highlight these gaffes, it's out there! Oh, it's out there... So you see, you can be "university educated" and still be stupid.

Steve, I wish you good health!

Originally Posted by Celemourn

Ok, apparently none of you are aware of the secret insider information I possess. Allow me to enlighten you all. For all photographic evidence, please refer to THIS SITE.
So, here we go. The secret is...

Steve Jobs does not actually have any internal organs or skeletal structure.

How is this possible, you may ask? Ah, it's simple. He is filled with pure, liquified EGO (Executive Growth hOrmone). It's what powers his Reality Distortion Field (the field generator is in the little toe of his left foot - you can see it when he wears sandals). Now, if we go back to 1997, when NeXT was acquired and Steve took over, (please refer to the above link for photos) you'll recall that he was looking quite plump. This is due to the fact that the RDF had been in disuse during the NeXT years, Steve having made relatively few public appearances. As a result, his stockpile of fuel was topped off, and ready to go.

Fast forward to 2003. After successfully deploying his RDF in the launch of the iMac, iPod, and making some very fundamental changes to Apple as a company, we can see that his EGO reserves had been depleted somewhat. He slimmed down, and even lost a bit of hair (follicles contain super high concentrations of EGO). Apple was the better for it.

Now we arrive at 2008. Steve has not only launched the third generation of iPod Nano, intel based Macs, the new form factor for the MacBook and MacBook Pro, the Mac Pro, and all the other wonderful little oddities of the last few years, but he has brought to fruition the iPod Touch and iPhone. These two, doubtless, have required the greatest expenditure of EGO so far, in what has been a monumental reshaping of the Cellular Backwater called America. We can tell by looking at all the phone makers (especially in China!) who are trying to copy the iPhone. The RDF has been working at triple capacity, and been doing double shifts.

So you see, Steve isn't ill. He hasn't even lost much weight (EGO is incredibly buoyant in Earth's atmosphere, and may frequently be mistaken for hot air). He's simply deflating.

So there you have it!



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Originally Posted by haveyoumetmark

Well, it's fully great that you don't run the company because I'm sure none of us would be here if that were the case.

Without Steve, Apple would just be another company. Hopefully, this is no big deal. Steve's an icon who creates equally iconic products. Gag me if Phil Schiller is the future of keynotes.

Originally Posted by wilco

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Originally Posted by gmon750

It's obvious that you and ignorance are bedfellows. Steve Jobs has done more for the industry than any over-educated booksmart individual could ever accomplish. You seem to have a strange definition of what "success" should be. People like Jobs, Gates, Packard,Rockerfeller, etc.. come from a common cloth. The took the risks and laid it all out on the line for something they believed in and made a huge empire out of it. They came from the school of hard knocks and not from some pompous Ivy-league background with a silver-spoon in their mouths. They have taken the risks and chances that most folks would never consider trying.

The world was built from the hard work of people that really had a mission. Of course, while everyone is entitled to their opinion, your rant is of extremely poor taste considering the topic of this forum.

You really need to resist the temptation to escape your parent's basement. Perhaps they need to change the locks to keep you more secure... I mean... "safe".

Originally Posted by sillycybin

when he goes, its done with. People will try to keep the spirit going and the coal car filled, but the train will come to a slow stop and that will be it. No more ideas, nothing new, the people left to lead will fight amongst themselves, and they will end up making a mockery of the whole subject.

Originally Posted by Celemourn

Ok, actually, the more I think about this, and the more posts I'm reading in retaliation to this one, the more convinced I'm becomming that...
He's a Troll.
I could be wrong, of course, but this is just too perfectly inflammatory. Every single thing he listed is precisely the kind of thing to set us all off.

Soooo... YHBT I bet?

Spammy, Is that YOU?

Originally Posted by MC1171611

It's funny how people think they could do so much better than someone who's doing it already, and whose stock is worth close to 8 times as much as Microsoft's..

Originally Posted by MC1171611

It's funny how people think they could do so much better than someone who's doing it already, and whose stock is worth close to 8 times as much as Microsoft's.

Originally Posted by hezekiahb

I believe Apple, I think Steve just needs to start thinking about a successor & then take a step back just as Bill Gates has. Better to do it before he gets to far along in age so that he's able to hang around a long long time & show he's still a great presence at Apple.

Originally Posted by teckstud

Even Kentucky Fried Chicken survived without Colonel Sanders.

Originally Posted by hezekiahb

I believe Apple, I think Steve just needs to start thinking about a successor & then take a step back just as Bill Gates has. Better to do it before he gets to far along in age so that he's able to hang around a long long time & show he's still a great presence at Apple.

Originally Posted by teckstud

Even Kentucky Fried Chicken survived without Colonel Sanders.

Originally Posted by thrang

I suppose this is the picture of health the media is looking for...

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