Valley Buzz: Woz on Jobs, the New Google Diet, Slumping PCs and How You're Likely Wasting Time at Work

Give Mr. Jobs some time off. The stock and most importantly -- the company will survive AND continue to lead the way. Don't freak.

How about creating a slew of jobs by beheading all the guilty greed mongers? If we hold the officers of the companies accountable, and also the politicans we will have lots of new high paying jobs people can fill!

Sarah is still hot!

exactly right. A mind's a terrible thing to waste; Steve's will keep cooking, and so will others'. Ya'll need to chill a bit.

Is it my imagination, or does Tim Cook look slightly thinner than the last time we saw him? What is Apple hiding?

If he will leave....Leave..... no more too much publicity.....He is not well due to his health.......Do he needs money....The answer is no...he is rich........How about hospitalization.....He is covered by his personnal insurance and I belived Aplple will pay him for that purpose......To be honest too much publicity is not good...It is annoying.......

Steve is tough, nothing will stop his briliance.

Re: Slumping PCs, the article states, "The firm said in the fourth quarter of 2009, the PC industry had its worst shipment growth rate since 2002." Wow, the year 2009 went by so fast. It seems like we were saying "Happy New Year 2009" a couple of weeks ago. Wait, it WAS just a couple of weeks ago that we welcomed 2009. Either Gartner Research has a really good crystal ball, or Ms. Lacy's editor is asleep at the switch.

I fear Steve Jobs is dangerously close to having worked himself to death. Is this how we define success? I have enough now and I want to live to enjoy it. I think it’s time to re-explore that ‘60s idea of “Dropping Out of the Rat Race”.

For those who say Apple has life after Steve Jobs, I ask you to look at the history. EVERY CEO other than Jobs has been an unmitigated DISASTER. Remember Gill Ameilio? Those are the kind of incompetent "whack-jobs" who thought they could run Apple like a soda factory. Apple has more flakes in its ranks than Kellogg. Sometimes brilliant flakes, but flakes nevertheless. Steve Jobs understands the technology business AND he's a visionary AND he knows how to make the flakes at Apple play nice with each other. Without him, Apple is like an orchestra without a conductor (or should I say maestro!)

jobs and apple LIED to investors. it isn't personal when you have a PUBLICLY traded stock. scumbags. and the little sissy fanboys in the media who helped cover it up and even now minimize the LYING TO INVESTORS are worse scum.

Steve will come back if he can. What more can you ask of the man? As for the courageous (anonymous) user posting above me about all the "scum" who dared to "lie to investors" or to soft-pedal their stories about a well-loved man who is ill... I would submit to you, as an Apple shareholder myself, that even if someone at Apple did lie... even if Steve himself stretched the truth before MacWorld... and neither of those have been proven, just accusations made by *cough* a bunch of foul-mouthed investors, but... even if you accept all that..... ...he's still a human being. We're all reasonable people here. Steve Jobs has proven himself, among other things, as having Apple's best interest at heart -- and that includes shareholders. As I say, he'll be back when he thinks he can add value; meanwhile his judgment says to get out of the way and take care of himself. THIS investor has confidence in Steve's judgment, including this particular decision. Meanwhile, if you read Yahoo Finance's Message Board for AAPL... it would be hard not to come away with the impression that the Investment community are a lot of angry, petty, foul-mouthed cry-babies. Never in my working life have I encountered a group of people as consistently and protractedly self-absorbed, entitled, angry, bitter, self-serving, and generally dissatisfied and disagreeable as is the bunch of regulars on that board. They mostly sound just like the tone of the 12:19pm anonymous post in this thread. Even when the stock is up. But especially now. To those of you that are so unhappy as Apple stockholders, I say: get out. GE will take your money. So will M$ or Dell. They'd love it. I guess you're too late to invest in Circuit City, though, too bad. Me, I'll double-down on your firesale prices and hope for Steve's recovery. Even If he doesn't recover, I'll be there for what happens next. All you whiners can go scratch dirt.