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Mallrat · Aug 5, 2004, 11:19 PM

As we all do (or at least all should) we are hoping Steve Jobs makes a full recovery. As a person who just yesterday was diagnosed with Hogkin's Disease this story was close to my heart. In a weird way it made me feel that I'm not alone and that no matter how rich you are, cancer doesn't discriminate.

Anyway, I'm sure both me and Steve will be fine in a few months.

My question is, the iMac G5 I assume was supposed to be introduced at a Steve Job's keynote in Paris in late August, early Sept.

Any news on if it has been pushed back, if someone will be doing it in his place, or even cooler, Steve doing it from his hospital bed using iSight. Maybe he will get a Steve Job's lookalike to go onstage.

Just curious. Or course health is much more important than a computer, but as a Cancer person and an Apple person, I'm very curious. So you can't blame me for being insensitive.

When I didn't have cancer I was looking forward to the new iMac, so I feel the best thing to do is to still focus on the new Imac and live life.

Wow, that was a rant.

Any thoughts?

P.S. Go to your doctor reguarly!

MrForgetable · Aug 5, 2004, 11:54 PM

Good luck on your recovery! I hope the iMac will come out on time just for you

f1000 · 12:18 AM

Originally posted by Mallrat:
As we all do (or at least all should) we are hoping Steve Jobs makes a full recovery. As a person who just yesterday was diagnosed with Hogkin's Disease this story was close to my heart. In a weird way it made me feel that I'm not alone and that no matter how rich you are, cancer doesn't discriminate.

Hey, if Paul Allen can vanquish Hodgkin's Lymphoma, then so can you.

zeebe · Aug 6, 2004, 07:04 AM

Originally posted by f1000:
Hey, if Paul Allen can vanquish Hodgkin's Lymphoma, then so can you.

Good luck with your Hodgkins!! The report I read about Steve, was he was taking all of August off, and that he would be back in September, so I am sure he will be there for the opening. I think he would fly there even if he would have had surgery the night before

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Again good luck with your health!

milhous · Aug 6, 2004, 11:54 PM

I'm sorry to hear about the diagnosis, fight it and don't let it get you down!

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Commodus · 12:09 PM

The keynote at Apple Expo Paris is the 31st, so it's possible that Jobs might be able to make it for the keynote. My feeling though is that they'll just have someone like Phil Schiller do the keynote instead. They might have Steve pipe in via iChat for part of it.

MrForgetable · Aug 7, 2004, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by Commodus:
The keynote at Apple Expo Paris is the 31st, so it's possible that Jobs might be able to make it for the keynote. My feeling though is that they'll just have someone like Phil Schiller do the keynote instead. They might have Steve pipe in via iChat for part of it.

i think that's a pretty good idea. come in via iChat AV.

adrianl · Aug 8, 2004, 03:49 PM

Well that makes you a member of a very exclusive club - the tiny fraction of people who are Mac users crossed with the tiny fraction who get Hodgkin's!

As another (fully recovered) member of this exclusive sect let me wish you a complete recovery. Sounds like you have a great attitude and personally I found that anything (including idle speculation on the new iMac) that helped me focus on things other than cancer was a great help/lift.

Good luck!

Adrian

Mallrat · Aug 8, 2004, 08:25 PM

Originally posted by adrianl:
Well that makes you a member of a very exclusive club - the tiny fraction of people who are Mac users crossed with the tiny fraction who get Hodgkin's!

As another (fully recovered) member of this exclusive sect let me wish you a complete recovery. Sounds like you have a great attitude and personally I found that anything (including idle speculation on the new iMac) that helped me focus on things other than cancer was a great help/lift.

Good luck!

Adrian

thanks for the support everyone.

Adrian, nice to hear from someone that can relate. I'm glad you're doing well, and I hope to join your fully recovered club very soon.

I'm a big believer in everything is funny, espically cancer and death, so I haven't changed a thing about myself. I keep making jokes and focusing on Apple computers.

I'll stay positive and hopefully the iMac G5 speculation will make it easy to focus on something else.

Thanks again.

MrForgetable · Aug 8, 2004, 09:53 PM

Originally posted by Mallrat:
thanks for the support everyone.

Adrian, nice to hear from someone that can relate. I'm glad you're doing well, and I hope to join your fully recovered club very soon.

I'm a big believer in everything is funny, espically cancer and death, so I haven't changed a thing about myself. I keep making jokes and focusing on Apple computers.

I'll stay positive and hopefully the iMac G5 speculation will make it easy to focus on something else.

Thanks again.

I am just like you. I think everything is funny, and everything can relate either to Apple computers, S2000, Water polo and cello

Some people might think I'm weird by telling dumb jokes but they all love to laugh. laughing is a good thing even if I make a fool out of myself. i like your spirits. keep up the good work.

mitchell_pgh · Aug 9, 2004, 11:58 AM

It really begs the question...

What will Apple be like post-Jobs?

I know anyone could technically run the company, few people have the reality distortion field like Jobs. He can take a lemon and turn it in to a brick of gold, or at least make you feel like it's a brick of gold.

Eriamjh · Aug 9, 2004, 06:43 PM

No Jobs, no iMac? Boy you people have limited minds!

mitchell_pgh · Aug 11, 2004, 09:08 AM

Originally posted by Eriamjh:
No Jobs, no iMac? Boy you people have limited minds!

Who said that?

ibookmark · Aug 11, 2004, 11:55 AM

Hey Mallrat,

My father was diagnosed and treated successfully in 1984 for HD and will soon be celebrating his 62 birthday. So hang in there and I agree there is nothing like keeping your mind off the negative and instead focusing on other great things like Macs.

Take care,

ibookmark

tuscmat · Aug 11, 2004, 01:03 PM

Some posters here seem to think Jobs has Hodgkins, he doesn't. It's a milder form of Pancreatic cancer. People are confusing that with Paul Allen who has HD.

ibookmark · Aug 11, 2004, 02:31 PM

No confusion here. Just wishing Mallrat well on a serious challenge of a, albeit different yet still a, form of cancer.

Cheers

kenaustus · Aug 11, 2004, 02:49 PM

I had surgery for prostate cancer in Feb and found the recovery to be far easier than I feared. I would bet that Steve was out of the hospital within a week and home recovering. (As a comparison my surgery was on a Monday and I went home. The incision started at the belly button and headed south. Any further south and it would be going north . . .)

The biggest "problem" with surgery is getting your energy back. I visited the office a week after the surgery, but only for about 15 minutes. You sure don't want to play tennis, but you can get about.

In terms of Paris, Steve would probably feel up to it, but the doctors may nix that idea. Short flights are OK (my Urologist's brother flew in for a wedding 10 days after prostate surgery), but long hauls are different. On a long haul flights (including San Francisco to Paris) there is an increased risk of DVTs - and that risk is higher after surgery.

Depending on the doctors I would go for using iSight for the Paris Keynote. Safer from a DVT position and it doesn't take away as much of Steve's time as a trip to Paris. Would also be neat if it gave Steve a chance to demo a new iSight!

Don't look for the surgery to slow down the release of the new iMac either. The only thing that his surgery would have slowed down is his tennis game.

Mallrat · Aug 16, 2004, 12:15 PM

Originally posted by kenaustus:
I had surgery for prostate cancer in Feb and found the recovery to be far easier than I feared. I would bet that Steve was out of the hospital within a week and home recovering. (As a comparison my surgery was on a Monday and I went home. The incision started at the belly button and headed south. Any further south and it would be going north . . .)

The biggest "problem" with surgery is getting your energy back. I visited the office a week after the surgery, but only for about 15 minutes. You sure don't want to play tennis, but you can get about.

In terms of Paris, Steve would probably feel up to it, but the doctors may nix that idea. Short flights are OK (my Urologist's brother flew in for a wedding 10 days after prostate surgery), but long hauls are different. On a long haul flights (including San Francisco to Paris) there is an increased risk of DVTs - and that risk is higher after surgery.

Depending on the doctors I would go for using iSight for the Paris Keynote. Safer from a DVT position and it doesn't take away as much of Steve's time as a trip to Paris. Would also be neat if it gave Steve a chance to demo a new iSight!

Don't look for the surgery to slow down the release of the new iMac either. The only thing that his surgery would have slowed down is his tennis game.

It looks like I have my answer. Some VP dude is going to do it.
I just read his name and instantly forget it.

rareflares · Aug 16, 2004, 04:00 PM

Phil Shiller's doing it. He's a great speaker too so the keynote should still be great.

mitchell_pgh · Aug 17, 2004, 09:22 AM

Originally posted by rareflares:
Phil Shiller's doing it. He's a great speaker too so the keynote should still be great.

I wouldn't say he is great... Steve Jobs is a great speaker/presenter. He always has been.

Commodus · Aug 17, 2004, 02:40 PM

Schiller can be effective - he's emotional and funny when he wants to be (witness WWDC 2003 as a good example). He has done keynotes before (at the past two NAB conferences, if I recall), and even if you're pessimistic you know that the Apple Expo keynote isn't as long as one for MacWorld or WWDC.