word

By jamie on Jul 27, 2008

This is how people use the questionable idea of “transparency” to morally badger and bludgeon those around them.

By Enric on Jul 27, 2008

very well said

By ian on Jul 27, 2008

Leave Brit… doh, Steve aloooone!
Seriously: Steve Jobs has health problems?

By anty on Jul 27, 2008

Does this mean that Steve has quit taking Viagra and switched to Cialis? Or is he still taking Viagra and is planning to switch to Cialis???

By Bill Gates on Jul 27, 2008

I was surprised at the savage tone of Joe Nocera’s article in yesterday’s NYT when I read it after watching this video.

It’s barbaric to make a spectacle of a private matter like someone’s medical issues (real or not). I think Jobs had it right when he called Nocera a slime bucket.

By Vince Williams on Jul 27, 2008

Prancreatic cancer is a death sentence most of the time. It killed my grandmother in than 10 weeks.

By Art Lindsey III on Jul 27, 2008

Loren - exactly who are these tech dickheads that you are referring to? Mention them in a public forum so we can avoid them like the plague in the future…

By Joseph Jaffe on Jul 27, 2008

What’s that sound going on in the background of this video? If I had to bet I’d say that Loren is getting a high colonic while he’s talking. That would explain his pained expression too.

By jk on Jul 27, 2008

There are always those who wish to make a name for themselves through the pain of others. These individuals and groups have nothing of worth in their pathetic lives. The only joy that they find is in anothers pain and how it can profit them. Props to you Loren for speaking out about these jackals.

By Orpheus13 on Jul 28, 2008

Hope this Helps~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxSwJC3Ly0

By Dusty on Jul 28, 2008

It was the same way when the other Steve of Apple Setve Wozinak had is plane crash..

I hope Steve P Jobs sues their asses off..

By Fred Grott on Jul 28, 2008

It’s weird because on one hand, Steve Jobs more than any other CEO holds his company’s future in the palm of his hand. If he goes, the company would be in dire straits as far as we know.

That being said, he’s also a smart business man. He knows what he’s doing and he knows how to run a company. His health? If he says he’s okay, he’s okay. We have no way of knowing.

Here’s the way it needs to go down.

We need to shut up about his health already (if he says his cancer hasn’t come back, believe him; he wouldn’t risk lying about his health and having the SEC come down on Apple), and trust that he isn’t stupid enough to have a worthy replacement ready for when the time comes that he’s going to leave (I think Schiller, but that’s just me).

It’s time to stop acting like this brilliant guy is a dope and doesn’t know how to run his own company. If we all knew so much we’d be doing it instead of writing about it on blogs. He didn’t get where he is by effing things up and had Apple not been stupid and pushed him out in the mid 90’s, things would be very different in the computing world right now, I guarantee.

By Vinny on Jul 28, 2008

Vinny,

As usual, I agree with everything you said.

By Joshua Rosenstock on Jul 28, 2008

What a great first view for a Monday- Thanks Lo-

By Rocky Barbanica on Jul 28, 2008

word!

By wh1ne on Jul 28, 2008

What about the thousands of employees whose livelihoods he has in his hands? I’m sure they would like to agree with Vinny and be able to trust that he will have a worthy replacement ready for when the time comes, however human nature dictates that that is probably not the case. No one likes to face their own mortality, specially one with a strong ego like Steve Jobs, and thus succession planning does not get thought about in serious detail. Jobs is not the only CEO to face such questions. Warren Buffett, who could be argued is more important to Berkshire Hathaway than Jobs is to Apple, gets the question frequently and has recently begun to talk about his succession plan. There is a tasteful and respectful way to approach this issue that is between the extremes of ignoring it entirely and having Jobs give weekly medical updates to reporters.

By DM on Jul 28, 2008

I’m sure they would like to agree with Vinny and be able to trust that he will have a worthy replacement ready for when the time comes, however human nature dictates that that is probably not the case.

We’re not talking about human nature; we’re talking about business, and Steve Jobs would never let Apple rot. You’d have to think he’s a total schmuck to think he doesn’t have someone lined up to be his successor should anything happen to him. Not doing so would destroy the company and his legacy on top of it. If you believe he’s an egomaniac, you can’t at the same time believe he’d let Apple rot without leadership because his legacy would be the most important thing to him.

You don’t have to agree with me, but common sense dictates you probably should.

By Vinny on Jul 28, 2008

I think you’re getting soft in your old age, amigo. Steve knows the drill — with a public company, disclosure is part of the deal.

He signs the checks, he makes the speeches, he gets the options, he should play by the rules, not go whining to the “Steve Jobs is God” brigade every time someone says something about his personal life.

Yes, pancreatic cancer is bad. My father-in-law died of it two years ago. Do I wish Steve didn’t have it? Sure I do. But that doesn’t change what is required of him or of Apple’s lapdog board of directors.

By Mathew Ingram on Jul 28, 2008

Mathew,

The only way you’re right is if something is wrong and he’s covering something up.

Other than that, it’s none of your business. Honestly, if nothing is wrong, why do you need to know anything? Would you like the pictures when he gets scoped once a year? After all, colon cancer is a bitch and he should prove he’s healthy if he wants investors to feel secure!

Stop it already.

This has nothing to do with the “Steve Jobs is God brigade” and everything to do with people not knowing their place and needing to be put in it.

By Vinny on Jul 28, 2008

50% correct.

The witch-hunt is disgusting!! But APPLE screw this one big time. The good old apple-no-comment thing is usually brilliant. But not when it comes to a company that so depended and controlled by one men.

By zx on Jul 28, 2008

isn’t that what Ernie & Bert said?

By Oscar on Jul 28, 2008

http://www.mac-essentials.de/index.php/mac/14276/

confront with (e.g.) Zuckerman’s announcements today…

By ettore on Jul 29, 2008

Thanks for making this video commentary. Thank you for being the voice that stands up! It’s so refreshing to see someone take a stand against the ridiculousness that far too often plagues us.

My grandmother died painfully from pancreatic cancer. It ain’t easy.

Apple’s a public company and thus must comply with investor regulations, and they have.
As a high profile person, Steve’s fans want to know. What’s disgusting, is the people who hide behind this idealogy only vested in the story because as Loren says, moneygrubbing!
How concerned are you that Apple is going to go down if Steve is not around? One day he won’t be, and the company will still be kickin it. In the end, life is temporary, for all of us. While this may sound like platitudes, I cant tell you how much I think about this lately–attending all these tech events and it’s so freakin network-y. Sometimes all for one and well, all for one.

Times change, ride the moment because it’s leaving. Why can’t people focus this energy and channel it into something positive and give back, make a difference?
Let him live.

By @skyle on Aug 1, 2008

Health issues are personal and should only be out in public IF the person wants to be transparent about them. Most people don’t, and that’s their prerogative. I find the witch hunt disgusting, too. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I just showed my Mom a couple of your videos (including Tech Nigga), and she loved them. You have a new fan!

By stacy on Aug 3, 2008