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Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave from Apple

Nerd Grind — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:07:31 +0000

Steve Jobs just announced he is taking a medical leave from Apple until June of 2009. Rumors that Jobs was suffering from a serious medical condition were recently confirmed by Jobs. He is currently on medication to try to correct his illness.

Get well soon.

Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

Nerd Grind — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:29:20 +0000

Steve Jobs is trying to put Apple stockholders, and Apple product owners, at ease regarding the rumors that he is very sick, and could die soon. Jobs wrote a letter below dated January, 5, 2009:

Dear Apple Community,
For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.
Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.
I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.
As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.
Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.
The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.
I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.
So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.
Steve

One thing is for sure, Jobs IS very ill, and if his new "treatment" doesn’t work, he will get sicker.

The Evolution of Apple Products

Nerd Grind — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:24:05 +0000

This video presents a visual history of Apple products. While Steve Jobs was away from Apple, their products didn’t change much, but when he returned suddenly their products were innovative and colorful. We keep hearing Jobs is sick. Apple will be lost without him.

Student Sends Email to Steve Jobs, Gets Free Final Cut Pro

Nerd Grind — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:45:15 +0000

A Greenwich High School student wrote a letter to Steve Jobs asking for a "high school educational" discount on Final Cut Pro software. He received a reply the next day from Richard Townhill, Director, Pro Video Product Marketing asking for the students mailing address. A week later, he had $1300 worth of software sitting on his doorstep free of charge! Not too shabby, eh?

This was the response.

Then a week later, this is what he got.

Apple MacBooks Suffer From Performance Lag When Batteries Are Removed

Nerd Grind — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:57:11 +0000

According to various sources, running your MacBook or MacBookPro without its battery will cause a noticeable performance decrease. Those of you who adopt this practice in order to squeeze out an extra month or two of battery life will find your Apple laptops run 40 or even 50 percent less efficiently.

This is apparently by design: The company made it so processor speed is lowered when the unit detects that its relying solely on A/C to power itself. It begins to demand less power than usual in order to avoid unpleasant shutdowns. The end result is your programs will start running slowly.

Faulty line of reasoning or not, best keep that battery resting snugly where it belongs. If you think this has been happening to you, click here to run Cinebench to benchmark your Apple system.

Steve Jobs Flips Off IBM

Nerd Grind — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:31:12 +0000

Recently, an old picture of Steve Jobs has surfaced of him standing in front of an IBM building in NY, flipping them off. The picture was probably taken sometime in the mid 80’s.

Where is the black turtleneck? I guess this is Jobs’ way of simply saying, "I’m a mac."

Historic Apple Sign and Wozniak’s Toolbox for Auction

Nerd Grind — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:25:21 +0000

For all you crazy Apple fanatics, prepare to start foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to purchase Apple’s first trade show sign as well as Steve Wozniak’s toolbox.

The Apple trade show sign was the first sign used in 1976 during promotions at trade shows. it measures 100" x 22.5" x 1.5" and will run you upwards of $15k.

The second item, Woz’s toolbox, was the toolbox used by "the Woz" during the creation and inception of the Apple I and Apple II computers. It comes with a yellow Dymo label that says "STEVE WOZNIAK." The toolbox will run you between $3k and $5k.

The auction is this Thursday and Friday in Stamford, CT.

Psystar Beats Apple by Releasing Blu-Ray Enabled Mac Clones

Nerd Grind — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:04:05 +0000

Psystar announced today that they are ready to ship a Mac clone with built-in Blu-ray and NVIDIA 9800GT graphics cards. This comes as a surprise given that the company is currently in closed-door talks with Apple to negotiate an end to their cloning ways.

Steve Jobs has thus far resisted inclusion of Blu-ray technology into Macs because of steep licensing costs, a problem Psystar apparantly had little issue with. No pricing model has been announced yet but expect them to be fairly inexpensive. Psystar announced today that they are ready to ship an Mac clone with built-in Blu-ray and NVIDIA 9800GT graphics card.

Steve Jobs Announces New MacBooks

Nerd Grind — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:10:20 +0000

In San francisco today Steve Jobs said the new MacBook will go on sale tomorrow. The laptop unibody enclosure is made from aluminum and carved by real lasers. Okay, so when will Macs be able to use Windows installation files to install and run Windows programs?

Apple Denies Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report

Nerd Grind — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:11:57 +0000

A CNN iReport poster reported this morning that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the ER after a severe heart attack. Fortunately, it appears the story was false. Immediately after reading the iReport story, Katie Cotton, Vice President of Worldwide Communications for apple, replied quickly, saying "It is not true." The iReport poster wrote:

Steve Jobs was rushed to the ER just a few hours ago after suffering a major heart attack. I have an insider who tells me that paramedics were called after Steve claimed to be suffering from severe chest pains and shortness of breath. My source has opted to remain anonymous, but he is quite reliable. I haven’t seen anything about this anywhere else yet, and as of right now, I have no further information, so I thought this would be a good place to start. If anyone else has more information, please share it.

CNN’s iReport kept the report up until at least 10:15 AM, about 20 minutes after Apple’s denial was published. The story has since been removed.

CNN says it removed the story because the "community" brought the story to its attention. Importantly, CNN also refers to the content as "fraudulent," which is much stronger than "inaccurate." "Fraudulent" implies an intent to deceive.

Apple’s stock also took a major hit today before bouncing back.

The SEC will no doubt investigate, and prosecute, the person who posted this false report, which was an obvious attempt to manipulate Apple’s stock price.

Who would actually trade stocks based on an iReport story anyway?

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