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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| Apple announced its mastermind CEO Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence, but did not disclose the extent of his health issues or how long he's expected to be away. In 2009, Jobs took a six-month leave for a liver transplant and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012203197.html
In other articles I have read that he is taking a 2 year break.
How will Apple do without him? Honestly he is the one giving approval on just about every decision that company makes. I hope he left a very detailed guide for the next guy.
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FNJ
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"With Steve out of the picture we can finally make the ipad bigger and even MORE cumbersome and pointless!"
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Sehkmaenzo
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I guess a new apple product a day does not actually keep the doctor away :/
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Does this mean that the iPhone/iPad will keep their single buttons?
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Syd Lexia
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Dammit! The single button worked on the Atari 2600, and it works on the iPhone!
Seriously though, the iPhone needs more buttons. What about all the pirates who want to run NES games on their jail-broken iPhones! Won't someone please think of them!?
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
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Anything that requires a d-pad and buttons on a smart phone pretty much sucks in my book. It's very confusing.
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Douche McCallister
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D-Pads can be done very well on touch screens if enough attention is paid to them.
Also it looks like we are going to see just how important Steve Jobs is to Apple.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Dammit! The single button worked on the Atari 2600, and it works on the iPhone!
Seriously though, the iPhone needs more buttons. What about all the pirates who want to run NES games on their jail-broken iPhones! Won't someone please think of them!? |
I wonder what will actually happen in the future.
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Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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this might be an alarmist news story, especially since its being reported by the national enquirer, but apparently Jobs only has weeks to go:
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But today shocking new pictures were published in the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer which suggests things are worse than Apple would have the world believe.
The Enquirer claims that the man behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad is stricken with pancreatic cancer and may have just six weeks to live.
The new photos show Mr Jobs looking painfully frail and weak, with his jeans and dark top hanging loosely on his 6ft 2in, rail-thin body.
The pictures are not yet available online and so far the graphic images have not had an effect on Apple's share price which today closed up slightly at 363.13.
Mr Jobs weight is said to have dropped from a pre-cancer 175lb to 130lb now, according to the National Enquirer.
His thinning hair is a sign of the effects of the advanced chemotherapy usually used to treat the disease. |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357743/Cancer-stricken-Apple-boss-Steve-Jobs-just-weeks-live.html
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
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Looks like it was not true and it was dismissed.
He is meeting with the President today along with the CEO of Google and maybe Zuckerberg.
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