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Steve Jobs' demise greatly exaggerated

Posted Aug 28 2008, 02:52 PM by Kim Peterson
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It's a well-known secret that news organizations write obituaries of famous people before they're dead. Better to have a well-written and thorough obituary ready to go instead of rushing something together at the last moment.

But every so often, someone along the chain screws up and hits the "publish" button early. It happened with writeups about Mark Twain, Bob Hope and Pope John Paul II. And Wednesday, it happened to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Jobs "helped make personal computers as easy to use as telephones, changed the way animated films are made, persuaded consumers to tune into digital music and refashioned the mobile phone," according to a premature obituary published by Bloomberg News.

Bloomberg deleted the article, saying that it was accidentally published after a reporter had made a routine update. A little embarrassing for Bloomberg, but really no big deal. And it should have blown over quickly.

But for some reason, the-obit-that-wasn't has become a hot topic of conversation in the tech world today. Perhaps that's because of recent concerns over Jobs' health, which erupted after he appeared publicly looking quite thin, on the verge of looking gaunt. Or Apple's history of secrecy, even over the performance of the new version of the iPhone.

Maybe seeing the obituary is reviving an Apple investor's worst fear: That this man, one of the most famous and most valuable CEOs in history, is not going to be around forever.

Luckily, Apple shares seemed unaffected Thursday. The stock closed down 0.5% to $173.74. 

Steve Jobs is alive. Now can we all move on?

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Blah, blah, blah

Minimum 28,000 kids died yesterday of starvation or water born illness.

I am sure we could put all there names on an 80 Gig iPod for remembrance

Steve who?

I think we should respect each and every one of us.  Additionally, if you managed to enter this corporation global exploration and did your best, individually however that may be interpreted - that mediocrity will have to do because that is what the culture has 'cut outs' & that is what has been encouraged via education.  Blessings, blessings everyone wants BLOODSAIN as in English and Welsh word which means 'the shedding of blood'; because that is the root of the word blessings and it goes back beyond the ancients when sacrificing of animals and your would have to pour out the blood afterward the world is being blessed.  But I am admittedly addicted to computers, my world has changed as a result of computers, it will be forever altered.  Thanks Steve (I think).

Leave Britney alone! [insert tears here]

Sad that in this day and age, we still have to hate people who are more prosperous than ourselves, even if you dont like the 'i', why bash the man, he has contributed a whole lot of technology to this world. too bad there arent many more enterprenuer's like him

Yes let's move on please!  All this stuff about OMG it's going to affect Apple's stock my GOD the horror.  This is the same reason your gas prices went up NINE whole cents because MY GOD Gustav might hit our oil rigs.  We seriously need to knock it off as a society with all of this trying to cash in on a crisis.  Leave Steve AND our oil AND our global warming ALONE.  NONE of it has happened yet!

Heck I wish I was as thin as Jobs, He is probably just fine, as far as the paper goes, we all make mistakes.....I remember his partner Steve Woz trying  to fly his friends around Scotts valley , after one lesson and almost killing himself and friends

I'm sure all good.

Linda and Marrgret, it's so rediculous to think that only rich people can have good diet and good water. Get some discipline and make a turkey sandwich and salad at home to take to work that should cost about $1.50 and a gallon of spring water is about $0.75 compared to that $7.00 you spent on your douple quarter-pounder with cheese, and super-sized coke and fries

He runs the company that has made those advancements. It is very offensive to those that were actually the brains and creators of each of the items in which you have listed. Steve is alive and well, leave the guy alone. Remember that he is a human and deserves to have a personal life just like everyone of us on earth. If he is really sick he will share when he is ready to. Also keep in mind that there are many things other than cancer that cause people to loose that kind of weight. For your information he is a healthy normal weight, maybe everyone should worry about their own weight. Perhaps you should read a little about diabetes, or celiac, or IBS or a thousand other disorders that cause rapid weight lose.

GEORGE M. STREBEL said "AT LEAST HE HAD A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR CIVILIZATION"

What the hell are you talking about?  Steve Jobs is a Capitalist Pop-Culture Whore.  He's famous for turning a generation of young people into trendy douche-bags that care more about how they look with their mp3 player or nifty phone than the civilization around them.

I hope Mr. Job is fine and wish him good health, and peace of mind.  Maybe this gentleman has experienced an emotional personal tragedy in his life, and, with time, he will put on a more healthy look for all to see.  My sister is going through a painful divorce, and is losing weight and looks like a skeleton. You never know "everything" people might be going through.  It's not like they wear a sign around their neck advertising their circumstances. Peace, out.

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