Does Steve Jobs Have Cancer?

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ve pieced together that I’m both an admirer of and a critic of Steve Jobs who, arguably, is the greatest business person of all time.

Well, once again, the topic of Steve Jobs and his health has come up.

Despite all the speculation, you can rest assured that Steve Jobs is okay. The 60 Second Marketer did a dive into this subject about a month ago and here’s what we wrote:

Has Steve Jobs cancer flared up again? The short answer is “no,” it looks as though he has not had a recurrence.

In an article posted on The New York Times, writer Joe Nocera reports on a phone call he received from Mr. Jobs that reportedly started with “This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant (expletive) who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.”

After that rather Jobsonian opening, Mr Nocera received some details on Mr. Jobs’ recent health problems.

While the conversation was off-the-record, the article goes on to say that Mr. Jobs does not have a recurrence of cancer. That’s great news on several fronts — most importantly because Mr. Jobs is a family-man and would be missed by both his family and his massive fan base around the globe. But it’s also good news because it gives Mr. Jobs time to begin sharing the spotlight with some of the other geniuses at Apple. That’s something I suspect employees and shareholders alike would welcome.

I outlined this concern in a blog entry several months ago called “Why Steve Jobs is Both a Genius and a Knucklehead.” The blog discusses the risk Mr. Jobs puts Apple in while he continues to promote himself as the exclusive face of Apple.

The danger of having Apple’s health linked so closely to Steve Jobs’ health is a scenario both Apple and Mr. Jobs should avoid.

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  • http://www.copywritersroundtable.com John F.

    I completely agree about the risk of having Jobs as the sole face of Apple. And I would certainly miss his impact on the world of computers (as I type on my MB Pro… 8th or 9th Apple I’ve owned). It’s regrettable that this situation has gone as far as it has, with such invasion of Jobs privacy too.

    But if this helps end the discussion, here’s an article — first that I’ve seen — that actually delves into what seems like the most plausible (and not-so-worrisome) explanation of what’s going on:

    http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/13/steve-jobs-life-after-the-whipple/

  • http://www.60SecondMarketer.com admin

    Hi, John –
    I’m an Apple fanatic, too. Not to “age” you, but I suspect you and I were some of the early-adopters in 1984 working off an early Mac. (When we got our first 20 Meg hard drive, the IT guy told me “We’ll never fill up that hard drive as long as we live.”) Hah!

    Anyway, I visited your site (http://copywritersroundtable.com/) and think you’ve got some great stuff there. Any chance we could share some of it with our readers?

    All the best,
    Jamie Turner

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