Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed suspicions about his ailing health on Monday in an email to the company’s consumer community. It seems that Jobs has been suffering from a hormone imbalance for the better part of 2008, and potentially longer.
According to the email, Jobs’ recent noticeable weight loss—and his absence at Macworld—can be attributed to that, but the condition is treatable and a recovery should be made within the year. The letter also denounced the handful of reports suggesting Jobs was on his deathbed during the Macworld keynote, leading us to believe that the man was not in fact on his deathbed.
During Steve Jobs’ next several months of treatment, the CEO will remain as such, performing regular duties as if nothing were amiss (though did seem to imply that if his health got in the way of what was “best for Apple,” he would step down). As it currently seems he will make a healthy recovery, the focus has begun to fall on Apple PR’s blunders in misleading the public about Jobs’ condition and its effect on the tech giant’s appearance at Macworld. Apparently some folks at Apple insisted that the conference was irrelevant to the company at this point (Macworld…Apple…irrelevant?) and so it would not attend. Smooth move.
