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Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

January 5, 2009 apple
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There has been much speculation about the health of Steve Jobs. Apple’s been riding a mini roller-coaster because of this, with the value of their stock. Even more speculation “occurred”  once Apple had stated that Phil Schiller, Senior VP of worldwide product marketing, will be giving the keynote instead of the usual “Steve-note.” However, this statement by Steve, himself, makes it official:

Dear Apple Community,

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote.

Unfortunately, my decision to have Phil deliver the Macworld keynote set off another flurry of rumors about my health, with some even publishing stories of me on my deathbed.

I’ve decided to share something very personal with the Apple community so that we can all relax and enjoy the show tomorrow.

As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

Fortunately, after further testing, my doctors think they have found the cause—a hormone imbalance that has been “robbing” me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy. Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis.

The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment. But, just like I didn’t lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this Spring to regain it. I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.

I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple’s CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first.

So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.

Steve 

Read the original document here.

Steve Jobs on MobileMe Fail

August 6, 2008 apple / Uh oh!
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Steve Jobs sent a letter to the MobileMe team about their lack of success.

Team,

The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better:

MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards it clearly needed more time and testing.

Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts.

It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe into a service that our customers will love. One step that I can share with you today isthat the MobileMe team will now report to Eddy Cue, who will lead all of our internet services iTunes, the App Store and, starting today, MobileMe. Eddy’s new title will be Vice President, Internet Services and he will now report directly to me.

The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services. And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year.

Steve

Rumor has it, the email was send around 4PM Pacific on Monday.