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Apple Says Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave
- iconfinder 16y agoGet well soon, Steve.
- barredo 16y agoTomorrow Apple will announce (suspected to be great and record breaking) finantials http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/14/apple-will-announce-q1-2011-financials-on-january-18/ http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/14/apple-will-announce-q1-2011-f... Obviously releasing this note the day before is meant to avoid $AAPL going to much into the red.
- rix0r 16y agoJust to be pedantic: What exactly is the value that should be substituted for the variable $AAPL? :P
- DuoSRX 16y ago$AAPL is used on twitter to talk about stocks, just like # is used for hashtags. Like $AAPL, $GOOG, $MSFT ... etc
- astrodust 16y agoAh, Twitter. What symbol will you appropriate next?
- maukdaddy 16y agoProbably %
- kanamekun 16y ago@astrodust - Perhaps the @ sign? :-) I actually just looked up hash tags on Wikipedia, and was surprised to see that the asterisk is starting to be used to give out "stars" and ratings to items: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(metadata)#Star_tags So I guess so far, microblogging has appropriated at least four symbols: @, #, $ and *. That leaves: !, %, ^, &, and ().
- syncsynchalt 16y agoCould it be... interrobang‽
- cookiecaper 16y agoWhy is that necessary? Why not just use the symbol? I'd think that $ appears in too many non-stock contexts to really be a useful filtering mechanism.
- rkudeshi 16y agoIIRC, it's because of StockTwits. http://stocktwits.com/ http://stocktwits.com/
- davidmat 16y ago348.48 at the moment, according to google finance.
- pmorici 16y agoIt's a holiday.
- Seth_Kriticos 16y agoNASDAQ is closed, holiday. DAX (Germany) is in business hours though, and the stocks fell ~7% immediately http://www.finanzen.net/aktien/Apple-Aktie http://www.finanzen.net/aktien/Apple-Aktie and then flattened out. Expect something similar when NASDAQ opens again.
- radicaldreamer 16y agoSounds like a good bargain to buy on tomorrow's drops
- protomyth 16y agoYeah, It will go up and this situation shows why Tim Cook is so vital to Apple's future.
- elithrar 16y agoExactly. Many people freak out when Jobs is away, but Cook + team (ie. Forstall, Mansfield, Johnson) proved themselves last time Jobs was away for an extended period of time. I'd always be interested to know who would run the company if Jobs stepped down (he'd probably stay until he couldn't, given his drive) - my bet would be Ive.
- protomyth 16y agoI think they would mimic the current situation with Cook running the company and Ive doing the product development. What their actual titles would be is anyones guess. Cook's lieutenants are going to be very important. I hope this is just the effects of the transplant per the NYT article. It would make sense given the compensastion they are giving Cook.
- brudgers 16y agoIt also gives Apple PR an extra day to get their message out due to the US financial system being closed for Martin Luther King Day. With analysts and financial reporters off of work, Apple is likely to receive fewer calls for explanation.
- wlievens 16y agoMore at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128
- alanstorm 16y agoThere's an interesting story to be told about what makes someone who's already a billionaire keep on in such a hyper-stressful job/career/calling when facing repeated life-threatening illnesses. We, of course, won't get that story, and will have to settle for a news cycle of the fiduciary responsibility tourettes brigade vs. the hacks who think they're John Gruber screaming at everyone to leave Steve alone.
- startupcomment 16y agoYou are presuming that becoming a billionaire is the end game.
- alanstorm 16y agoNo presumptions here, which is why an in-depth story would be so interesting.
- cosmicray 16y agoMake that a $5 billionaire (not counting the Apple stock value). Back when Disney bought out Pixar, I made a little spreadsheet that calculated how many DIS shares Steve wound up with. Assuming that he has not sold off (or gifted) any/much since then, his DIS stock is now worth slightly more than $5B. It has a net gain of $2B since the Pixar buyout. He is doing what he is doing out of internal motivation (and certainly not because he needs the money).
- zitterbewegung 16y agoI seriously think that he is at the company because he likes his job. He probably identifies strongly at the company and feels that it is his responsibility to stay with the company.