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    Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment

    Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    Way to work the system. I need a list of all the states that have the shortest waiting list for the following:


    Heart

    Lung

    Kidney

    Liver


    It's for future reference..

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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    Good for Steve Jobs. I'm so glad that his wealth has bought him more years.


    I don't care about getting a free MBP or a fancy iPhone. I hope maybe Jobs can be charitable and swing some money my mother's way so that she doesn't die of cancer this year. She didn't invent a computer but still - I'd like for her to not die.


    IF JOBS BOUGHT A LIVER, THEN I HOPE HE DIES A SLOW PAINFUL DEATH FROM ORGAN REJECTION

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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    I don't see why he had to get the liver transplant right now, he could have waited a year for the liver 3GS.
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    06/24/09

    Also, then he'd have a compass built in.
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    06/24/09

    @Marcelo:


    He has the new iLiver 3GS. Glad he's doing well.


    I personally think he should relax and enjoy his 2nd lease on life.

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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    But did they also serve him onions with that meal?
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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    I wonder how the kidney donor feels. They are now a part of Steve Jobs.
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    06/24/09

    @JoeLikesRamen: Hi, Dr. Nick!
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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    Sorry little Melina, you're going to die. Captain Apple over there just bought us a new clinic, so he gets a liver and you don't. But here's an iPod Touch for your pain.
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    06/24/09

    @WWJD to get Steve Jobs a liver: You can actually donate part of your liver and thus not die.
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    06/24/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Indeed, it's the only organ that regenerates itself.
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    06/24/09

    In reply to Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Transplant, Denies He Received Preferential Treatment
    Avoiding comment, Jobs & co. quickly vacated the scene in their eScape pod.


    Get well soon Steve-O


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    01/16/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
    Bloomberg must have consulted with Dr. Lecter.


    And they left out the part where Jobs was considering having it with some fava beans and a nice chianti.....

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    01/16/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
    We've been burned several times with these "breaking" stories.

    I won't believe it until Apple makes it fact.
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    01/16/09

    @MichelleDatsun: Burned? Maybe at CNBC. But Jesus got a lot right.
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    01/16/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
    The 4:30 news stories are tiresome.


    Every one of these stories comes out right after the close of trading. This news hits after the close of trading, a day after a major news crash, before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the coronation of Barack Obama.


    History fun fact. The NSA, one of the most secretive government agencies, was signed into existence on Election Day in 1948 to guarantee that the news would be buried.


    Jobs is being disingenuous. I hope he recovers but this behavior needs to stop.

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    01/16/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
    Either Jobs underestimates his importance to his company's valuation or he's doing the standard disingenuous celebrity "I just want my privacy" schtick. I wish him well but the "I don't understand why people care about whether I'm healthy enough to run Apple" mantra needs to be put to bed.


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    Mr. Jobs,


    You are a brilliant man. You undoubtedly know why your health is newsworthy. Feigning ignorance does not become you.


    Please be forthright. Speculation and uncertainty are more damaging to your company's valuation than the news which you may or may not be hiding. As an officer, you owe a fiduciary duty to your investors.

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    01/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I was first going to disagree with you but a point brought up in another point makes me agree:


    Jobs has positioned himself so that Apple = Jobs, good or bad shareholders and the press see the two as the same thing.


    Here's my question though: Do you think there would be all these stories had Jobs said right off the bat, "I'm still battling my disease, I'm going to be taking time off to recover, and I'm uncertain as to when I'll return" or do you think that since he's so tied to Apple these stories were going to happen anyways?

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    01/16/09

    @Thats Dr Bear to You: I think that being up front would be the best. What has now happened is that Apple and Jobs have squandered credibility and good will.


    Investors - real investors who look at stocks in the long view - want to know whether Jobs will be around to make decisions and if not, when and if he'll be back. Is Tim Cook a placeholder or a replacement? As it stands, no one really knows whether Tim Cook is an "interim" CEO or the next CEO. Let's not forget that Jobs was "interim" CEO for a time before becoming the CEO. So which is it? Who is and will be running the company is vital information - regardless of how visionary or mundane the person is. What is known is that Apple cannot be trusted to give this information.


    If Jobs isn't careful, he's going to find himself ousted by the Board, which owes a fiduciary duty to the shareholders to protect the value of the company's share value. If the questions produce continuing valuation, there could be an argument for an ouster if only to remove speculation from the equation.

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    01/16/09

    In reply to Steve Jobs Considering Liver Transplant Says Bloomberg News
    Why is this important? Because he's the CEO of Apple! That's why. It's the shareholders' rights to know the current affairs of the company they own and the health of the CEO is part of that.
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    01/16/09

    @latterman: Normally I'd agree with you. Since the start of this I've said the same thing.


    However IMO since he has stepped aside (taken a leave of absence) it is no longer an issue in my mind.

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    01/16/09

    @tande04: He's only "temporarily" stepped aside.
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    01/16/09

    @latterman: His official position doesn't matter. The fact is, Steve Jobs ability to return to Apple in June is material to the company and its stock price. When you accept the job of CEO of Apple, you are accepting that people will scrutinize you when something like this happens.
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