And he's back, folks. Six months after Steve Jobs
took a medical leave from Apple due to health reasons, the company has announced that he's back on the job, working a "few days a week" on the Apple campus and from home the remainder. Of course, we'd been hearing of
Steve's continual involvement in "key aspects" of Apple's business for a while now, so this seems like more of a rubber stamp on the status quo than a major change, but now that it's official we're sure the questions from shareholders and other interested parties regarding Steve's health will only grow louder and more insistent -- especially given the news of his liver transplant earlier this year. We'll see how Apple decides to handle the situation when the time comes -- until then, we're just thankful that he's returned and is doing well.
posted Jun 29th 2009 2:01PM
yay!
In related news, Jobs reported that his first on-site bowel movement since his return "went surprisingly well". It's reported he attributes this success to a high fiber diet and patience on the pot.
Welcome back Jobsie...now please add a camera to the iPod Touch!
Thanks pal.
And don't forget, I need those TPS reports first thing. mmmmmm, 'kay?
Watch out Michael, here I come!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbk7DgSzEdw
Yah for you, I bet people who he actually work with are *:(*
Steve is in the hizzy. Welcome back, your Majesty. Now all is right in the good ship Apple.
@ xcrunk
You just reminded me of that funny ESPN commercial where a football player tackles an office employee and screams: "You forgot to put a cover on that TPS report!"
Wow, amazing how much crap is stored in my brain. I just wish I could replace all that crap with some usuful stuff...
Terry Tate was the greatest Office Linebacker to ever play the game.
I don't think he really ever left. He was probably video conferencing every day.
Aside from the time when he was getting a new major organ transplanted obviously.
Are you trying to call Steve Jobs a cam whore?
Huzzah
I guess the whole "One Apple a day keeps the doctor away" works, kind of?
I see what you did thar.
anybody who fights cancer and comes back ... even part time ... completely deserves a huzzah. Congrats. Now keep moving and make everybody else work a little harder to stay competitive. It's all good.
re: iChat
Yea, of course he was. So now he never really left hmmm? So now him coming back is not a big deal, right? Cool.
Cuz I seem to remember a whole bunch of BS about how "wow, Apple seems to be doing great without Steve. I guess they don't really need him after all"
Wake up, idiots. Apple puts iChat webcams on all its laptops. Anyone who thinks the head of the company wasn't Conferencing in on a regular basis is out to lunch. Its 2009. Just because he was on a 'break' doesn't mean he wasn't running shit.
THIS
IS GREAT NEWS!
C-C-C-Combo breaker!!!!!!
There is no combo to break.
Well not anymore, it got broken!
I wonder if he's really really thin, or really really fat. Or, if he's just average.
I wonder what his preference on blue or green is!
@ jordan turpentine Currently it's blue. It used to be green but as we can see with the change from the green iTunes icon to the now current blue iTunes icon it changed a while ago.
Great maybe Apple will launch a phone under Windows Mobile 7 later this year. After all WinMo remains the best business solution hitherto.
Windows Mobile Sucks.
"Windows Mobile Sucks."
Way to go, Steve - you just mobilized the Redmond Engadget Apple-Hating Commenter Horde. I hear them crawling out of their holes even now...
"After all WinMo remains the best business solution hitherto."
Hitherto and forthwith, mine eyes have rested upon yon most wondrous operating system.
Woah. Try not to post content like that.
Well Apple DOES use Windows Mobile devices quite extensively in their own enterprise, specifically the Apple Store. I wonder if they use them elsewhere?
Apple being totalitarian on only them being allowed to manufacture anything running the OSXMobile platform is pretty limited.
How many tens of millions of Windows Mobile devices (not necessarily phones) are sold each year because specialty companies take them and make them ruggedized and suitable for work in mining, underwater, etc etc locations.
Big opporitunity.
As Redmond Engadget Apple-Hating Commenter Horde member number one, I'd like to declare hooray for Steve. May He have mercy on the maker of the new shuffle's interface.
Good to hear he's back to work. Hopefully we get more innovation with his return.
In unrelated news...is Engadget gonna get around to reporting this: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/06/29/microsoft-to-oems-cut-off-free-vista-to-windows-7-upgrades-at-2/
I'm surprised it's not on the front page by now.
I'm just mostly waiting to see what he says when Phil tells him they now call the 13" aluminum MacBook a "Pro" model.
...as long as it isn't "innovation" like the 3G iPod Shuffle. What were they thinking with that?
.......what are you making a point about for your post-comment?
"I'm just mostly waiting to see what he says when Phil tells him they now call the 13" aluminum MacBook a "Pro" model."
You seriously believe he didn't know about it...?
Yeah, why do you think his liver failed in the first place?
Welcome back Steve! Let's get that anti-glare option on the 15" MBP now.
Agreed! And on all other products too.
Liver bought from your iphone sales.......... I bet it even has the apple logo on it.....
Need to buy a new liver? There's an app for that.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Thats funny!!! LOLZ
how many tasteless and classless comments can we get in 1 thread?
And your Big Mac purchase buys the weed for the cashier in a different state. What's your point?
"Filed under: Misc. Gadgets" - Steve Jobs is a miscellaneous gadget?
Not as many as if this had been Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates (even though he's not technically leading MS now anyway.)
Wow, this was supposed to be in response to Excelsium above. It even said "replying to Hackettman" before I posted.
nice.
Cheers to Jobs' health!!!