Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs has always had a love-hate relationship with the media. Those feelings were evident Wednesday, when the tech giant founder reportedly worked a full day before resigning, sticking it in the eye of headlines suggesting he was near death.
The “sick Steve” versus “robust Steve” rumors were battling it out yesterday. At the same time Bloomberg was reporting Jobs had been house-bound for weeks, the publication said he spent a full workday at the company’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. This before resigning as CEO.
In his resignation letter, Jobs’ again poked fun at the health rumors, particularly those suggesting no internal plans were made for a post-Steve era. “I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple,” Jobs advised.
To bolster the image of Jobs as still robust, the Apple leader suggested he remain as chairman of the board, where he will still maintain a good measure of control. Additionally, Apple’s selective leaks included one that Steve intends to remain on the board of Disney, where he is the largest stockholder.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
20 responses to “Jobs Defies Rumors, Works Full Day Before Resigning Apple CEO Post”
In no particular order:
1. Jesus
2. Gandhi
3. Beethoven
4. Springsteen
5. J.D. Salinger
6. Van Gogh
7. Steve Jobs
These are my heroes. From them, I gain strength.
I just paíd $20.87 for an íPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasoníc Lumíx GF 1 Cámera that we got for $38.79 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail príces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
Here is the website we use to get it all from :
BidsBit.com
Jobs had pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant. He will never been healthy in a traditional sense. Working the hours a CEO of a company like Apple is called to work is not advised for someone like Jobs. In the end, he has to put himself first which is in many ways what’s best for the company. He can still steer the course of the ship as Chairman and a consultant and let others do the heavy work and be able to step away for rest etc as needed and perhaps live to see another 10 years. Or he can stay as CEO, stress out his body and be dead within a year.
ì just got an iPad 2-32GB for $ 23.87 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonìc Lumìx GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to
buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from,
bit.ly/ShopBid
Jesus is the only one that saves…
That’s your belief. They’ve all saved me.
But Steve brought us auto-save.
Outstanding reply, and a pretty neat list in the first place. I’ll have to think of my list….
But if Jesus did save, not believing he did doesnt take away form the fact he still saved. Just means your missing out.
What does he save you from exactly?
@quietstorms:disqus A nice list :) Thanks for sharing.
u’ve just made my day. haha