Apple CEO Steve Job is not dead!
Aug 29, 2008 People
Okay, okay, my headline might be a wee bit sensational but heck, it caught your attention didn’t it?
How much do you want to bet that it caught the attention of many, many other people? Well, it just did when Bloomberg (the news agency, not the person) accidentally released an obituary for the man behind Apple, reports cNet.
Among some of the things the obituory said about Mr Jobs is that he:
“…helped make personal computers as easy to use as telephones, changed the way animated films are made, persuaded consumers to tune into digital music, and refashioned the mobile phone.”
Well, I think the world of Steve Jobs (after all, anyone who can give me the pleasures of the iPhone - I love mine!!!! - is kind of like god … well, not exactly, but he’s pretty great to me, I think). What made the obituory so much more believable too was the fact that Mr. Jobs had previously battled pancreatic cancer and as such, assumptions are more easily made. (Also, he recently appeared in public look rather thin, the report states, and some people assumed that he was ill again).
It’s not uncommon to write obituaries in advance (I know this not only from the article, but from working in the media) but to release it, even accidentally, oer!
1.21am Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: apple, bloomberg, obituory, Steve Jobs
