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i.gizmodo.com - 1/14/2009

Steve Jobs Taking a Leave of Absence From Apple Due to Health Problems [Breaking]

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According to CNBC, Steve Jobs' health problems are more serious than reported, and he's taking a leave of absence, and Tim Cook is taking over the operations. UPDATED. The headline only piece reported by CNBC is followed up by All Things D with the full memo: Team, I am sure all of you saw ...

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Steve Jobs Announces 'Medical Leave' from Apple
Fast Company - Technology — ... at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June. I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple’s day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan. I look forward to seeing all of you this summer. Steve Ongoing coverage: Steve Jobs Taking a Leave of Absence From Apple Due to Health Problems - Gizmodo ...

Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure [Cyoa]
Gizmodo — Steve Jobs is taking a temporary leave of absence, which makes our Choose Your Own Apple CEO Adventure is all the more timely. Plus, it's fun. ...

A Profile on Apple's Temporary Leader, Tim Cook [Tim Cook]
Gizmodo — ... on Apple's Tim Cook is all the more interesting now that he's (at the very least) going to take over for Steve Jobs until June. We took the ...

Web Responds to Steve Jobs' Leave
Apple Watch — ... , Owen Thomas "He might as not well return after June, for his health and for Apple's. As much as he claims that he wants to remove the 'distraction' from Apple, by leaving things so unresolved, he guarantees it will remain as a cloud over Apple's Cupertino headquarters...Apple needs to prove it can thrive without Jobs. And Jobs, for the sake of his family and friends if not Apple's investors, must show he can thrive without Apple." Gizmodo , Brian Lamm "We got a lot of heat for breaking the unpopular rumor of Steve being too sick to present at Macworld a few weeks ago, ...

The Next Gadget Gods [Predictions]
Gizmodo — ... , emotionless decider—man, Cook is so easy to reduce to two-word stereotypical descriptors, he's bound for godhood. Even his name comes packaged in a suave but unforgettable two syllables. The catch of course is that he can't ascend the mighty throne of Apple until the big cheese retires or bows out due to health. Cook's ...

Woz Joining Fusion-IO as Chief Scientist [Woz]
Gizmodo — As one Apple founder takes a break from creating tech, Woz is joining Enterprize SSD company Fusion-IO as chief scientist. Fusion-IO's main product is ioDrive, with "performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today's hard disks". I just hope Woz makes something fun for us geeks who aren't in corporate IT to play with. [NYT] ...

Steve Jobs Skips Apple's Annual Meeting for First Time [Apple]
Gizmodo — Make of it what you will (and you will), but Steve Jobs is clearly taking his leave of absence seriously—he's missing Apple's annual meeting for the very first time since returning to Apple over 10 years ago. Obviously, many of the questions that shareholders will be slinging at Apple's executives on Wednesday, when the meeting takes place, pretty much write themselves, particularly given Steve's absence. At the meeting, shareholders will vote on whether to re-elect directors of the board to one-year terms—Al Gore, Google's Steve Schmidt and ...