I mean: What the fuck.
Steve Jobs:
[...] during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought.
In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June.
While I wish Steve Jobs all the best, and I think that Apple would do fine without him. The stock, on the other hand, will not do fine without him. In the best of times, Apple trades wildly on rumors and whispers and total bullshit spouted by ‘analysts’ who don’t know their asses from so many holes in the ground. Throw in something like this — after the shares have already been depressed for some time on Jobs health uncertainty — and Apple shareholders — a group which includes Tino — are going to be screwed. Rest assured that I will be first in line for the shareholder lawsuit if it turns out that they’ve been lying to us about his health. ‘Hormone issue’ my ass.
The funny thing about shareholder lawsuits, though, is that you sue the company in question. And who is the company? The shareholders; the lawyers are the only ones who make money in that kind of situation. Really it’s the board members and management who should pay, either for lying to us or for gross negligence in not knowing that they were lying to us.
