To Emily C - Amen Sister, I vote for you running Apple, and maybe in 2012 too!  Seriously!

When it comes to people's health, including the CEO of a major corporation, everyone, including stockholders like me, should mind their own business. Steve Jobs is a greate CEO and take Apple a long way, however, Apple will not fail just because a visionary such as Jobs won't be at the helm of the company much longer. It doesn't matter whether his health issues are "manageable" or not, Jobs has NOT done the company or it's shareholders a disservice by keeping his health issues private. He acknowledge his health isseus, the severity is nobody's business.

adam why would you say something like steve jobs deserves his fate. the man is sick and you say something like that , it is almost like you are saying that you hope that he dies.what if your mother or father was that sick and someone said that about them or someone that you love.should he be in jail no i do not think so, be cool my friend and watch what you say because that could be you or worse it could be someone very close to you.

hey it's not like we are loosing Bill Gates

In the end, in this life, we all go out with what we came in: nothing. I hate to be so cliche, but it's true, life is the journey, not the destination. If we can live each moment fully, then will have a life filled with living. If we spend all our time worrying about what's ahead or behind us, we are not living. It's hard to drive while looking in the rear view mirror or not paying attention. To Mr. Jobs: I salute you as one of the greats, and I thank-you for your gifts to humanity. My prayers and thoughts are with you for your recovery.

Steve Jobs deserves privacy to his personal health care issues. There is a law that protects patients from disclosing personal health care known as Health Information Privacy Protection Act (HIPPA). We should pray for his speedy and full recovery and you all need to do a little soul searching and get your priorities straight. Does anyone have any empathy or sympathy?

It wouldn't bother me so much except that he and the company lied.  That cost me around $175,000.   I am willing to take my lumps on no information, or just as a matter of making wrong moves.  But when a company directly lies to the public by saying that he's fine, just an easily treatable hormone imbalance, then I feel suckered and abused.  

My fault for loading up calls and believing in this company. Their fault for lying to me.   But I'm the only one taking the hit.  Not the lying company.

To pretty irritated.

Got your health? Then stop whining. Do you think $175,000 loss is the worst that can happen to you? Put your big boy pants on tomorrow and count yourself lucky you aren't seriously ill.

MP

It isn't taking a loss.  It is being lied to.  I don't take stockholder fraud well, and

I am willing to bet I'm not the only one.  

I take wins and losses in stride based upon available information, or lack thereof.  But if Jobs and the Company elect to make public statements to shareholders then they have a duty not to lie.

They lied.   Pure and simple.

I agree with the thought that companies are not just run by CEOs - man is sick - I guess "the company" tried to see if he could hang in there but guess it's out of his hand so he broke the news - yes the "name" does have a cradibility attached to it and like any other company who is doing well, bit of bump will come if main man goes out of the picture,but if the company, like apple, is doing well I think they will pick back up in no time- Jobs has put in his life to raise an empire and I don't think he will ruin it all now, but there is a time when someone else has to take lead - we have to stay positive - these are tough times for us all - for the whole world - let's pray for his health and good future for us and our children - Amen