AP covers Apple, Fake Steve drills real Steve

Chauncey Dupree
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January 11, 2009
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The AP goes Youtube:  This one covers Stevo's health issue and won't have too much you don't know already:

Contrast this with Newsweek's Dan "Fake Steve" Lyons who says in today's column:

Jobs, in contrast [To outgoing Microsoftie Bill Gates], seems determined to hang on at Apple no matter what. See, in the world of Steve, it's all about Steve. When he does go, he will be remembered as a tremendous genius—but also as a petulant narcissist with a grandiose sense of his importance and a sadly limited view of the world around him. Ironically, it is Gates, his archnemesis, who will likely go down in history as the classy one: the one who knew how to exit gracefully, the one who is devoting the later years of his life, and all of his billions, to helping the world's poorest people—and not clinging to his CEO job while he insults reporters and plays petty cat-and-mouse games with Apple shareholders and fanboys.

Sick'em!

 

Comments (15)

powers | January 11, 2009 - 8:57am

Forget that Gates is far wealthier than Jobs could even imagine. Yeah, he can afford to. Also I guess the fact that Apple gives thousands of Macs to SF area schools every year doesn't really count. I guess it doesn't matter that Jobs was able to lead a company to produce far better products than his buddy up north could, saving millions of people from  suffering and anguish every day. I guess Bill and Steve just have different approaches. 

powers | January 11, 2009 - 9:00am

"history as the classy one: the one who knew how to exit gracefully..."

 

And shake his booty in lame commercials for a company he once ran.

9to5 Mac Pro (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 9:31am

No. Jobs is the classy one. Steve Ballmer is an idiotic freak. Look where Microsoft is now. Gates gave up, Steve continues to strive for excellence in his company. His salary is $1 annually, and he does not intend to play petty cat-and-mouse games with ridiculous reporters like you, he's just sick. He will be fine by spring, at which time you will regret saying any of this because Steve is absolutely not egotistic or selfish like you said, he cares about Apple with his whole heart, and you must understand that.

mniessen (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 1:37pm

Today, after a long time, I inadvertently opened a .doc file with MS Word (I usually just use TextEdit or Pages), and was duly presented with about ten minutes of blue screen and the beach ball; the file did open eventually and turned out to be three lines of text, that's all.
So let's not discuss "class" here, when it is patently obvious which company has it, and which hasn't, and which app has it and which hasn't.

MWN

Jaryd (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 2:19pm

I believe that Bill Gates is represented accurately in this article, but Steve is not.
I like Bill Gates. I think he has done a lot of good with his wealth and has more to do. I am very thankful he and Melinda have decided to spend their wealth on something meaningful.
But I do not see Steve Jobs as "determined to hang onto Apple no matter what." Who gets to decide when Steve is done with Apple? Steve or Apple. I don't see Apple wanting to be rid of Steve of just yet. There is no power struggle in the vein of the 90's, so I must assume that the author is referencing Steve's health. If Steve is being honest with us, then he should be fine in a few months and there would me no reason for Steve to leave over a hormone imbalance.
I do hope that Steve spends his wealth in a similar way as Gates, though. He is plenty wealthy to leave a nice chunk for himself and his wife, and use the rest for more noble causes.

Beeve Stallmer (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 2:44pm

Steve and Bill are the same, wake up people!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 2:49pm

Steve is or Apple are lying as far as evidence goes. When discussions regarding Steves health started Apple PR informed that Steve was recovering from "common cold". Now Steve issues press release telling his weight loss is due to hormonal imbalance. There wasn't any prior diagnose according to press release. This is utter bull or the whole diagnose is crap. Hormonal imbalance is fairly easy to diagnose and verify and doesn't require uncommon expertise. However, what ever the real diagnose is we can be sure that Apple likes to tell their own version of truth when ever their can and that version seems highly unreliable if not pure lie. Steve is true dictator controlling his own reality in his private "North Korea". The citizens of that state believe their beloved leader and fear that the "free world" will destroy him along with their own utopian state. Fanboys are pathetic and Steve needs to go before he kills Mac and goes totally iApple.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 11:22am

"There wasn't any prior diagnose according to press release. This is utter bull or the whole diagnose is crap. Hormonal imbalance is fairly easy to diagnose and verify and doesn't require uncommon expertise"

I am so glad you are here to enlighten us on this subject. Maybe you should give Stanford a call and tell them that they can rid themselves of that expensive and unnecessary Endocrinology Department.
After his Whipple Procedure in 2004 he was likely left with a mild Pancreatic Insufficiency which will require replacement enzymes ("Hormones likely a misnomer"). This can actually be hard to diagnose and require specialized testing.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 4:23pm

Jobs was treated for cancer of the endocrine glands in the pancreas, known as islet cell cancer or pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer. Islet cells release hormones important to digestion, such as insulin and glucagon. Hence, this is related to operation and therefore diagnosing it as unrelated sounds incorrect. Hormonal imbalances are common in people who have an active neuroendocrine tumor.

N0tuN00B (not verified) | January 11, 2009 - 6:41pm

I couldn't care less who is the "classy CEO". This isn't high school and Dan Lyons can't keep gossiping like the bitchy cheerleader.

All I know is that Apple produces awesome products and Microsoft produces shit-covered crap cakes.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 10:38am

Steve is more the sort to donate anonymously anyway.

Raymond Cranfill (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 1:07pm

Wake up! Steve Jobs doesn't donate a penny, despite his quasi-buddist mumbojumbo. This is the man who wouldn't pay child support to support his out-of-wedlock daughter, who insisted on being Apple Employee 0 (instead of playing number 2 to Wozniak), who wouldn't even share his millions in stockk options with other Apple employees who been there from the beginning when Apple went public. Petulant narcissist doesn't even go far enough. The fact that the man almost died and is on death's door today is the DIRECT result of his know-it-all, I-am-the-King attitude, which governs every aspect of his life. If he'd trusted his doctors and had the damn operation months earlier, he wouldn't be in the position he is now. Poetic justice, I say.

farmboy (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 2:32pm

You are just full of crap. How do you know how much he donates? You know nothing. How do you know if he paid/pays child support? You don't. Who gives a crap if he has an ego--so do you, and so does everyone on the planet. Why should he share stock options, and how do you know the other employees did not receive compensation, stock options or cash? He earned what he earned, and they earned what they earned, this isn't Sweden. And finally, you're such an expert that you can attribute cancer to his attitude? Did you miss your anger management class?

blingblong (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 4:35pm

I firmly disagree with the article.

Gates is going down as a guy who's life's work (microsoft) is going down in flames, being revealed for the lucky sham it briefly was. Jobs will go down greedy and narcissistic, but leaving behind a company that will continue to do amazingly well.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | January 12, 2009 - 8:52pm

Well I won't go to Newsweek to give them any page hits for their stupidity, but why should Jobs leave Apple now when he is leading the company to turn out all kinds of great products? Apple has basically been setting the trends in personal computers, phones, and music players. Everything Microsoft never really created anything unique, they just copied everything. And Gates was always three steps behind on any trend in the business. Bill Gates did was either through luck, the stupidity of competitors and consumers, and by some pretty low-handed business moves. Gates was never the great computer mind that the mainstream press makes him out to be. And why should I feel good about him "donating his money to charity"? Where did he get that money? From overcharging customers for crappy products.