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This hints it's probably about health reasons, which is the saddest part.
by ristretto 15y ago
This hints it's probably about health reasons, which is the saddest part.
- Macha 15y agoHinting is rather unnecessary. Why else would he leave?
- ristretto 15y agoI 'd prefer that he would leave to "build a new pixar" or sth.
- TomOfTTB 15y agoBecause he's 56 years old and wants to start living a well deserved retirement? He's already on leave. So it isn't like there's a great strain on his health now. I would think no more than there will be when he remains on as chairman of the board. Which is the real point. If health were forcing him to step down he wouldn't be staying on as Chairman. There are significant duties to being Chairman of the Board. You have to appear in public, you have to go to official functions, and so on. You can't hide a serious illness and still be chairman of the board. Mark my words: This is all about Tim Cook (Which, if I might toot my own horn, I predicted here: http://tomstechblog.com/post/Ie28099m-Not-Sure-Steve-Jobs-Is-All-That-Sicke280a6But-That-Might-Mean-He-Isne28099t-Fully-Coming-Back.aspx http://tomstechblog.com/post/Ie28099m-Not-Sure-Steve-Jobs-Is...)
- jacquesm 15y agoI think health is the only reason that would force Steve Jobs to quit, he likes what he's doing. Being a Chairman of the board is a message to stockholders: "Don't panic, I'm still available", if he stepped down without an orderly transition Apple stock would probably really take a beating. The chairman of the board is fairly invisible from a public point of view.
- webwright 15y agoHe's actually been on a leave of absence so he could focus on his health. This is after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (whose 5 year survival rate is sub-20%-- 6% if you count all stages). And toss a liver transplant on top of all of that. Of course it's about his health.
- hugh3 15y agoI wish you were right, but Steve Jobs is clearly not a well man, and he seems to have been getting worse for some time. On the offchance that he did stage a miraculous recovery and decide "Well shit, now I'm all better I think I'm gonna go buy a large tropical island!" he would have mentioned his miraculous recovery in his letter, since his health problems are well known.
- Timothee 15y agoSure, everyone knows that he's been having health problems, but he could have made this decision just because "it was the right time" not because his health problems had worsened. Like he could have gone on, but felt that everything was in place for a smooth transition. However, "I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO" is not just that.
- TomOfTTB 15y agoThat is what almost everyone says in these notes. "could no longer meet my duties" could easily mean "because I want to go on vacations with my wife and kids every day of the week for the rest of my life".
- ebiester 15y agoNo, most say that they want to spend more time with family. "Could no longer meet my duties" + pancreatic cancer = a strong chance that the doctors gave him a number of how long he had left to live, and it wasn't it years. (That doesn't mean that Jobs can't beat the odds, of course!)
- ristretto 15y agoThat would hardly qualify as "Unfortunately"
- krishna2 15y agoProbably also the reason why the book is scheduled to be released sooner? [come on, which author ever beats a writing-deadline by 3+ months?]
- rkudeshi 15y agoI think that probably has more to do with hitting bookshelves in time for the lucrative holiday season.