The Steve Jobs Video Wall Street Will Be Poring Over
“I probably need to gain about 30 pounds,” Steve Jobs told the New York Times after his return to public life yesterday. Might as well concede the obvious, what with investors looking to pounce on any unexpected physical weakness.
Apple has posted video of its closed iPod event yesterday, material Wall Street will no doubt seize upon to double-check its initial reaction to Jobs’ return yesterday, when Apple shares hit a 52-week high but closed down 1%. It could have been worse, had Jobs been a no-show, a stock analyst tells the Wall Street Journal. Such is the demanding CEO’s importance to Apple, and shareholders must now weigh Jobs’ still-gaunt look and scratchy voice against his characteristically enthusiastic delivery.
Ideally they could take Jobs at his word, and leave the physical evaluations to the CEO’s own medical caretakers. But Jobs’ past obfuscations and distortions have made hard evidence an especially valuable commodity.
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Oh come now. Maybe the remark about gaining 30 pounds was related to his actual health and not how investors look at him.
Not to mention, if the public at large - not to mention Apple fanboys and the Mad Money-watching investor types - doesn't have confidence in Tim Cook's performance during Jobs' downtime, not even CEO Jesus is going to placate them.
I think it was a mistake to bring back Jobs so publicly. Once he becomes sick again, and unfortunately his illness typically doesn't have a great prognosis, his health will become an issue yet another time.
momof3wildkids
Hey Stevie, I got an extra 30 you can have.
This guy has graciously volunteered to help Mr. Jobs add those hard-to-gain 30 pounds.
All Stevie really has to do is eat 6 more babies. Why tell us? TMI.
@DennyCrane: Given the lead time to develop any new product (even an updated one), I think it's safe to assume that yesterday's iPod event was mostly a Tim Cook affair. So all that disappointment over no camera in the Touch, about speed bumps and stainless steel cases and little else... yeah, Tim Cook.
Why would you have confidence in his performance? In Jobs' absence, Apple reverts to the standard "increase the speed of our products a little bit every six months and not do much else" thing that every other manufacturer does and that Apple makes fun of. It's always been that way too, going back to when Jobs was gone the first time (the Gil Amelio era).
I'm not one of those guys that thinks everything Jobs does is gold, and I still resent him for killing the Apple II in favor of the Mac (the II could have been expanded and upgraded just like the IBM PC was, and it was more powerful than the Mac at the time). But the guy definitely has *something* that most CEO's don't.
Ah, the rumours are true: no wedding band. Don't worry, Steve, I'll nurse you back to health.