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Apple Says Jobs Has Returned to Work

40 points by terpua 17y ago

trickjarrett 17y ago
It will be interesting to see what happens. I expect we'll hear precious little just due to their normal cycle of announcements, not due to Jobs reintegrating or anything. The next "big" thing I expect is the release of Snow-Leopard.
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henning 17y ago
Important to the author of the story: Steve + Apple are BFF again. Less important: a man has overcome the worst of his medical problems and is trying to get his life back together so he can keep doing the things he loves and be with his family.
crux 17y ago
The way Apple has dealt with this is itself telling. For so many years Steve Jobs has been wholly identified with Apple—but now, even as he is returning, and even after every word about his health is positive, Apple is keeping it as low-key as possible. It's clear that however much influence he's retained, or retaken, at Apple, and however long he intends to stick around, that there is a mutual and seemingly permanent strategy in place to slowly and subtly disassociate the one from the other, and to break down the axiom Steve == Apple in the minds of the public.
seldo 17y ago
I haven't seen a single picture of him since he got back. Does he look healthy again?
- rbanffy 17y ago
  I suppose not. Although he has a brand new liver, the process of yanking the old one and plugging a new one back in is painful, complex and aggressive. We are really lousy from a maintenance point-of-view. Anyone would look like crap after a liver transplant. I wish him well. He did and has been doing important and interesting things.
  - DougWebb 17y ago
    My wife had a liver transplant (years before I met her) and I've learned from her and her doctors that pretty much all liver transplant patients have a rough first year or two. Expect to see Steve Jobs hospitalized a few times over the next couple of years, suffering from rejection, hepatitis, CMV, and various side-effects caused by the heavy immunosuppressants he's taking. Eventually he'll find a balance of drugs that he can live with, but it's a long, painstaking, trial-and-error process.

40 points by terpua 17y ago

It will be interesting to see what happens. I expect we'll hear precious little just due to their normal cycle of announcements, not due to Jobs reintegrating or anything. The next "big" thing I expect is the release of Snow-Leopard.

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henning 17y ago

Important to the author of the story: Steve + Apple are BFF again. Less important: a man has overcome the worst of his medical problems and is trying to get his life back together so he can keep doing the things he loves and be with his family.

crux 17y ago

The way Apple has dealt with this is itself telling. For so many years Steve Jobs has been wholly identified with Apple—but now, even as he is returning, and even after every word about his health is positive, Apple is keeping it as low-key as possible. It's clear that however much influence he's retained, or retaken, at Apple, and however long he intends to stick around, that there is a mutual and seemingly permanent strategy in place to slowly and subtly disassociate the one from the other, and to break down the axiom Steve == Apple in the minds of the public.

seldo 17y ago

I haven't seen a single picture of him since he got back. Does he look healthy again?

rbanffy 17y ago
I suppose not. Although he has a brand new liver, the process of yanking the old one and plugging a new one back in is painful, complex and aggressive. We are really lousy from a maintenance point-of-view. Anyone would look like crap after a liver transplant. I wish him well. He did and has been doing important and interesting things.
- DougWebb 17y ago
  My wife had a liver transplant (years before I met her) and I've learned from her and her doctors that pretty much all liver transplant patients have a rough first year or two. Expect to see Steve Jobs hospitalized a few times over the next couple of years, suffering from rejection, hepatitis, CMV, and various side-effects caused by the heavy immunosuppressants he's taking. Eventually he'll find a balance of drugs that he can live with, but it's a long, painstaking, trial-and-error process.