I find it hard to believe that so many of you care about Jobs' health problems. Do you really think he would give a rats a** if he heard you were sick?

I'm sure he's trolling the forums and worrying about your problems.

I think this guy has AIDS, or maybe even worse, RROD !

according to nbc nightly news, steve jobs had pancreatic cancer a few years ago.

so it would not be unlikely it was the only thing that became cancerous, like the prostate.
as it is said, if you don't use it you'll loose it.

in regards to aids, it is highly unlikely and ludicrous, since it is now a manageable disease even among the poorest of the poor.

"Jobs, its time to let Apple fulfill its own destiny, so that you can take care of your own short one and enjoy what you have left in this world!"

"in regards to aids, it is highly unlikely and ludicrous, since it is now a manageable disease even among the poorest of the poor."

Yes the poor with AIDS manage to get buried young.

Just what world are you living in and who is paying for the expensive drugs for the poor in that world? In Africa where the poorest of the poor actually live they die if they get AIDS.

I guess an Apple a day doesnt keep the Dr away.

nice cut!

The man has AIDS ...this is just a cover up >>He aint got long to live..pore guy

God please keep Mr. Jobs alive until Windows 7 is released. Anyway after about a month of Windows 7 release, he will def. be in coma. Not bad...you have def. been a great CEO of CrApple-world's #1 vendor locker. LOL

If something was seriously wrong with Steve Jobs like cancer, I would have been the first to know about it and I would have reported it here.

A lot of ado about nothing. Move along people.

[sarcasm]Yes, I agree that this man here would have known about Steve Jobs before his family and his doctor. Take his word for it people, internetworld7 knows all. [/sarcasm]

You're a frigging stalker then?

If he dies within the next year (I sincerely hope not), will you be happy to admit your ignorance?
On the other hand, you may not even post on BetaNews anymore; you might have swallowed some bleach or thrown yourself in front of a train by that time.
Your Windows 7 jokes aren't funny. And your representation of Apple products suck. You are an idiot, and an embarrasment to any computer user of any type.

Before you say anything- this was written from my mac.

IW7 or Foxy,
I have no idea which of you 2 are responsible for this brilliant invention, but kudos to whomever it is.
http://www.theonion.com/...ntroduces_revolutionary

And the next important announcement is: "The truth about MS major restructuring of its workforce has finally been revealed. At this very moment, upon seeing this video, thousand of Microsoft engineers has been reshuffled to quickly produce this functionality for Windows 7. Basically, a repainting of Vista. Will introduce this during CES as something they have been working on for several years already. Although the video is for pure entertainment, MS with their "me too" M.O. DNA will copy this and proudly display it as their own invention. Simply because it will be called a Squircle instead of a clickwheel."

Remember when he got pissed when an interviewer speculated about him taking the reins at Apple again? He stormed out of the interview saying he had an agreement not to ask him that question. Not true, and you knew he was coming back because he acted like such an ass. When Steve says something, you can take it to the bank.....that he's lying. Sell your stock on the recent rebound and watch what happens. The last thing I heard about Tony Snow was how well he was doing, then a month later he was dead.

Yah and there's probably 100+ other diseases that fit that description.

haha yup AIDS

I think Jobs is a lot closer to death than most folks want to believe. Online sports books have odds 12 months or less.

It's good if that's true

Nobody wanted a touch screen phone until this a** clown made one. The sheep are easily swayed by this man and his shiny turds.

It pathetic and sad how this company sets the trends and the mindless followers are even worse.

He looks like a corpse. I guess all that money can't fix everything.

Nice and hateful arent we? My goodness how you must personally despise Steve Jobs...

As for Touch Screen phones, the same could be said about so many other things that we could do without but choose not to.. The computer, the television, the automobile, or on a more practical note, the hair drier, the fast food restaraunt, or even starbucks. The USA is a society of people who think status is achieved through how much they pay for nifty little gadgets that they can do without. Are you going to blame being sheep on steve hobs? wow... I guess bill gates is an evil spawn of Jobs' evil and diabolical satanlike person :)

You say how pathetic it is that a company sets trends and that the followers of this company are mindless.... (0)^(0)

You'll have to excuse him eunichman, that moronic rant comes from the same guy who claims California is the "armpit" of the country yet his username is the most famous city in California!!!

ironic how you imply that someone else is a moron, with you constantly living in your "everything is perfect in Apple-Land" dreamworld.

California is an armpit and Florida is America's wang.

It's no surprise at this point really. The whole not-denying it pretty much gave away that something was amiss.

I wish the guy well, he's another human after all.

If it were to have the consequence that people involved with Apple and users of their products stopped thinking they were one down from God then that'd be great too.

let us hope that Job's doesn't come down with a bad case of ingrown toe nail.

otherwise the apple community world wide will go into a mass hysteria - never mind the economic or middle east crisis.

I am sure those stories appear on news sites that handle those kinds of stories.

This is not one of them.

God forbid a tech site comment on a tech leader's health...

The ironic thing is that the Aplle community is not freaking out.

Rather its nitwits like you who claim to have no interest in Jobs who are apoplectic!

LOL!

You mean nitwits like you that further the hyperbole?

LOL!

The word you are looking for, is hopeful. :p

What a bunch of bitter people.!!! Why not, just, wish this man good health and luck.

he can buy good health and a hospital and a long life and immortality if he wants it.

he can fly to china or russia and access cures resulting from stem cells.

he can also rent the pope to pray for him, in return for a charitable contribution.

however when one faces mortality one is either left with a little bit of time and regret or a second chance.

...and they call *me* a tool.

A little bit jealous of the upper class, there Benny-boy?

Did someone in a Mercedes run over your dog?

mark 8:36

ps: you're still a tool- ;)

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"

So you are claiming Jobs has lost his soul?

And using religious passages to make the point?

All while you show no mercy, compassion, or even the most basic humanity that this religion from whose book you quote most treasures?

What has this man done to receive such judgments from you, and who are you to make them?

Look unto thyself, Oh Thrower of Stones. The glass house in which you dwell will not hold.

Gotta have one to lose it.

Better that than a religious hate monger.

unfortunately, people have eyes but cannot see, like yourself.

the advice in the passage is clear:

Jobs needs to let Apple fulfill its own destiny, so that he can take care of his own short one and enjoy and do what is necessary with the time he has left in this world.

if he expects everyone to pray for him because he is too busy running a company, then he is simply a fool.

"Jobs needs to let Apple fulfill its own destiny"

...and the implication is that you know what that is better than he does?

Your arrogance is astounding.

I highly doubt he expects anything from any of us, least of all comment trolls who apparently think they are God's Own Jury.

"...and the implication is that you know what that is better than he does?"

actually he doesn't know squat about his well being, thus his problem.

if he listens to morons like you who would encourage a sick person to sustain power, wealth and greed over the only real thing of value, ie his health, then he deserves to get what he values the most.

my advice for you is to go back into your little hole and find a tree root to naw on.

because the bottom line is that if he really cared about apple then he would step down so that he could also focus on his health.

on the other hand if upper management is comprised of morons and don't know how to run a company, then he screwed up apple as well as his health.

I'd laugh, but it's just too much.

A person cannot run a company *and* go to the doctor once in a while?

I think you need to get your meds checked. They ain't working.

"go back into your little hole and find a tree root to naw on."

This is too rich. I am not the one claiming Steve should go into some "health" Zen-state and ignore the rest of the world.

Amazing how millions of people in the world can survive and flourish with chronic health conditions. It's simply amazing. What's even more amazing is that you've chosen to completely ignore that, and have instead opted for religious rhetoric to argue that someone cannot both work *and* care for their health.

Sounds like Addison's disease to me. If so, it's thankfully (for Jobs anyway) easy to treat.

Celiac's disease is another candidate for diagnosis. There are no blood test for it, and it causes every symptom alluded to in the article. Celiac's is controlled fully (and only) by diet - avoid all gluten, anything with wheat in it.

Because of the wide range of symptoms it is vastly under-diagnosed by the medical profession. My wife has the disease, and in the two years it took to figure it out, she nearly died. Anyone have a way to get a message to Jobs?

so does indigestion.

Does it really matter?

Crohn's and Celiac's are treated (or managed) almost identically.

My aunt has Crohn's, and follows the same basic treatment. Nothing with Wheat (gluten) in it.

It's amazing how much that limits a person in terms of what they can and cannot eat. Looking at the majority of food products, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything without wheat.

..and you can forget dining out or ordering in.

Sorry to hear about your wife. Life is rough enough without dealing with something like this.

health problem...it had to happen

that's because of Windows 7. The days of Windows 95 vs Apple is going to come again. And we all know what happened at that time and it's inevitable the same thing will happen again. Apple was dying...

i agree and i would love to see the same stuff happening

same here buddy

Imagine what happen when Steven steps down as CEO!!! when that happens, alot of investors will lose their pants.... scary thought!!!

Mr Jobs has cancer, plain and simple. Apple knows the stock will tank if that is found out... How stupid do they think the public is?

Just read a few of the posts by the 'oh so caring' public below.

...Just how stupid???? You can quantify that level of stupidity? LOL!

He got cancer because of Windows 7 news. Since the news on Windows 7 outperforming Vista and XP are floating every where that must have electrocuted his @ss.

Steve is far from beloved by many. It's just a fact. Snake oil salesmen are often reviled. It's probably not fatal so you can hold off on any more sanctimonious posts.

Yup, nitwit.

OSX is snake oil.

And even the iPod, the OVERWHELMING king of the low-fi over-priced convenience SS Walkman toy market works - and CUSTOMERS decided they liked it - not Apple.

Talk about sanctimonious - as well as stupid, you even denigrate the mass market who had the audacity to decide they like it, as well as Jobs.

Its always fun to watch the embittered Zune folks cry that their low-fi over-priced toys are not as popular as the iPod. At least MS thinks of additional ways to keep you folks busy!

But elf, I am sure you have lots of time to play with yourself now that Christmas season is over...

Wow, where did all that come from? I never even mentioned a Zune. Tetchy tetchy.

The snake oil is the "user experience" and "elegance" that Jobs sells. I have a few iPods and had a MacBook. They are fine but not nearly as good as Apple touts. I've never put my hands on a Zune.

Jobs is very good at what he does. Much like Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, or Ken Lay, he is an excellent charlatan who gets his followers to happily throw their money at him.

You just can't expect everyone to like people of this ilk, especially Jobs.

So are you denigrating the people who don't like Apple - or are you just going to resort to calling them names too?

Just nitwits like you who can't distinguish between real products and their real functionality, real peoploe, and marketing hype.

Oh my, you mean new tennis shoes don't really make me run faster?

Poor baby. Life is just so complicated for folks like you. But then its folks like you who are incapable of distinguishing between reality and marketing image who have institutionalized the status of victimhood.

I don't know. Sounds like life IS complicated for you. Why all the bile? What's up with the "status of victimhood" comment? You sound impaired.

You stated: "Just nitwits like you who can't distinguish between real products and their real functionality, real peoploe (sic), and marketing hype."

Seems to me I am the one pointing out the difference. What's your point?

Please take your meds as advised. This will be my last reply to you. I'll let you have the last word - so you can calm down and avoid your randomly shooting someone.

At least he is lucky he can afford the best doctors and maybe apple r&d cant invent something to keep him alive :)

Reminds me of the Futurama with all the heads.

Definitley wish him a speedy recovery

Well, apple "r&d" can only do stuff in usability and UX. Their core tech is all just a bigger scale mashup.

fortunate for him and no doubt he has medical insurance.

perhaps, he should have tried to get a diagnosis and treatment where the poor people go.

on the humurous side, Dr. House medical team could have diagnosed Jobs condition as some kind of rare infection acquired from using contaminated 10,000 dollar bills for toilet paper.

at least we all could be entertained with how multi millionaires deal with mortality.

its good to be steve jobs, flaunting this in everyones face, meanwhile if it were anyone else... they would have to give up their home to pay for treatments

Yup, ole Steve just runs about flaunting this in everyone's face! In fact, he had to call multiple news conferences just to get anyone to finally listen - you nitwit.

It only takes the press climbing in how many windows and reading how many bags of trash to get that info?

Oh, but I forgot, you care.

hey why did my comment get deleted? alright i'll take out the anti-apple bit /edit

there are innocent children dead over in gaza, who cares about steve jobs.

FP CNN among others along with travolta's retarded son and all are concerned with this? what a shame. whats more of a shame? steve jobs taking time to distract from real issues just to give apple stock a bump.

Their oh so innocent and caring adult leaders should have taken that situation into consideration before they decided to continue to fire missles into Israel.

Yup, and wonder why the rest of the Arab world, including Egypt who directly borders them!) does almost nothing to provide humanitarian aid and leadership to resolving the Palestinian issue - as none of them want the Palestinians in their countries! Oops, we're not supposed to acknowledge that, are we?

i could care less about either sides leaders, its the innocents that matter.

What a fool.

Then think of the innocents hit by their missles.

And why are their military installations placed strategically AMONGST civilian shields?

Isn't it quaint how those very leaders you care nothing about are the ones responsible for placing thoise innocent directly in harms way?

I know, but you care. Now try thinking.

But its always amazing to listen to toh so concerned who simply sit on their collective @sses and care and do nothing constructive to resolve the issues.

Let's see - one side ascribes to complete annihilation of the other, while the other subscribes to the concept of peaceful co-existence where he 'innocents' could actually conduct a civil existence with open trade and commerce. Yup, let's feel sorry for those ascribing to a policy of continued intolerance and hostility. They are the real victims!

Take it outside girls. This story is about Steve Job's illness.

thats my point, who cares about steve jobs? you do, well thats just sad.

One could ask why you are posting in a thread solely about Steve Jobs' health as you claim to have no interest in Steve Jobs' health...but then, its plainly evident you haven't a clue.

LOL!

you win, i bow to you sir

"Easy to Treat" gimme a break

With an intestinal resection perhaps (like that's easy or desireable???)...but it is a pretty nasty condition indeed.

Wish him the best if its Crohn's. He won't be spending much time partying.

Agreed. Check out the symptoms which sufferers deal with reguarly (and there's no known cure, just management/stablisation):

http://www.crohnsonline..../symptoms.aspx#symptoms

No matter how simple those David Garrard commercials make it look, most of us with Crohn's spend half our time in the bathroom and the remainder lying down. Medical science can't do a whole lot for us yet, and what it can do is outrageously expensive. I have no vested interest in Jobs or Apple, but as someone who suffers from Crohn's, I hate to hear of anyone else being diagnosed with it.

You're right. "Easy to treat" was too dismissive. I meant to say there are methods of treatment which are easily prescribed.

Maybe Job's went to see doctor house. HA HA.. They seem to bring up Crohns Disease allot in that show.

its never lupus...
what did jobs turn homosexual using his own products? i'm surprised it didn't happen sooner :D

meanwhile theres children dieing over in Gaza, who the f*ck cares about steve jobs, the media and folks concerned with sh*t like this makes me sick.

right on.