newsweek.com - 1/11/2009
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Who will run Apple after its visionary CEO and product guru Steve Jobs leaves? The question has been hanging over the company since last summer when Jobs appeared onstage at a conference looking terribly ill. Jobs, 53, underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer four years ago, and now says he's ...
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biz.yahoo.com - 1/14/2009
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following
email to all Apple employees: Team, I am sure...
all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with the Apple community. Unfortunately, the curiosity over my personal health continues to ...
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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com - 1/14/2009
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Trading in Apple (AAPL) shares was halted this
afternoon when the company announced that Apple CEO Steve...
Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence until the end of June. Apple COO Tim Cook will handle day-to-day operations in his absence. And Jobs is ...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs: “I Have Decided to Take a Medical ...
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9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... 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.
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Fake Steve Jobs Unloads on Real Steve Jobs
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... , the Newsweek columnist who launched his career from obscurity by impersonating Apple's CEO on a viciously satirical blog, has revealed what he really thinks of the man. Put on your blast armor. ...
Newsweek’s Lyons: Steve Jobs is petulant narcissist with a sadly limited view of the world
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... 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." Full article - Think Before You Click™ - here . MacDailyNews Take: Lyons is certainly not one who should be speculating about people who seem ...
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... in this week's issue of Newsweek , in a column titled " The Search for the Next Steve Jobs ." Oddly, despite the title, the column contains very little information about new candidates to lead Apple and very much information about how Jobs is a great big jerk. "See, in the world of Steve, it's all about Steve," Lyons writes. "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." But how do you really feel, Dan? ...
Dan Lyons Serves Up Roasted Steve Jobs
iPhone Savior —
... In his recent drive-by beatdown entitled "The Search For The Next Steve Jobs", Lyons hurls hundred pound words like 'petulant' and 'narcissist' directly at Apple's wildly popular CEO with the greatest of ease. Lyons knows too well the kind of media feeding frenzy that can come from serving up roasted Steve Jobs and he's not ashamed to ring the dinner bell at will. ...
Dan Lyons: Steve Jobs is a "petulant narcissist."
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... 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.
Apple: Who Will Succeed Steve Jobs? [Newsweek]
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