Apple was too cute in making disclosures about Steve Jobs and the company owed its investors more disclosure, but now things had changed as he was about to take a six-month leave.
Steve Jobs is really sick and even so sick that he has to take a leave. There is hope that he will return but perhaps he will not, and he may leave the office for six months but possibly longer or shorter. Besides, the kind of the sickness is unknown too.
Certainly the news is that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant a few months ago but it was not covered by the news media rather than being divulged by Apple, and once again it is unknown about what it means. The question is, is it a separate problem from the pancreatic cancer he was operated for in 2004 or does it mean that the cancer has returned and spread?
The Times said today quoting pancreatic cancer expert Dr Richard Goldberg that the liver is the most common site for the spread of pancreatic cancer. Dr Goldberg added worryingly that the prognosis for someone with metastatic liver disease is not nearly as good as for somebody who has disease confined to the pancreas.
Steve Jobs retired from Apple or took a long leave which is actually his business and not his investors’. But he did not do that and instead he took a six-month leave which ended on Monday and he is reportedly back at work. So does it mean that is he fully back in the chair or is he a part timer? Moreover, is he involved only in big strategic decisions or is he back to his old micromanaging self?
When Steve Jobs officially returned to work on Monday, the board should publicize a simple and definite statement about what his health problems are, what his prognosis is and if all the problems will affect his ability to lead. If they do not, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which supposedly is undertaking an inquiry into the way the company has handled preceding announcements on his Jobs’s health, should force them all to resign.
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