More Greed - (a postscript)

I don't care, Steve Jobs is still hot. In the end, that's all that matters to me.

I still love Steve Jobs (even if he is a liberal) and Apple rules!!

I'd like to know more about the situation before hand out a judgement.

Sounds like greed got the best of Jobs. We shall see. I'm a long time Mac user, I have two G5's at home, and use both a PC and Mac at work.

Talent and greed are not mutually exclusive. I would want to find out more about this before saying it was a matter of greed.

Steve Jobs is certainly an American hero, in a capitalistic sense, and it is very difficult to imagine that this pandemic of greed has touched such a talent.

It is also evident that his many fans do not want to see him go down.

Nevertheless, what is written here are the facts as they are known today, and time will tell if they are true and if he was personally involved, or if something was done on his behalf without his knowledge.

Definitely more greed, John.

Now where there is 2 there will be three...so we had Enron, now possibly Apple - wonder who the next one will be???? and President Bush and his administration want Americans to go into private investing in place of Social Security the way it is...ha huh..and I have this wonderful beach property on Mt. Rainer I would love to sell them!

I believe Steve Jobs is an American Hero.
He only takes $1.00 a year for his salary.
Look at the other greedy bastards that make Gazillions and they back dated the heck out of their own stocks.
Jobs was cleared of wrong doing this morning.

Steve Wozniak was the technical brains of Apple. He hooked up with Jobs in part because he knew that Jobs was far better at sales than he.

Apple has been evil for longer than I can remember. They have proprietary everything and charge an arm and a leg for it because you can't get it anywhere else. They make a more stable pc because they have complete control over the hardware and software. The downside is the inflated price. The "immunity" to viruses, worms, et al is the result of Apple's low market share. People who write that stuff can't become famous crackers if they do it to Apple. Any operating system can be compromised and the effort involved isn't that different from OS to OS.

Don't get me started on Itunes and DRM. Let's just say "abomination" and let it go.

Jobs is a good example of predation in the market place. He has used the computer marketing formula FUD--fear, uncertainty, and doubt--just like Micro$oft, IBM, and nearly every other big company in the computer business. I guess he's good at selling computers but Mussolini was good at making the trains run on time.

Apple clears Jobs in options probe, restates earnings
IDG News Service 12/29/06
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service, Dublin Bureau

An investigation into past stock option grants at Apple Computer Inc. has found that Chief Executive Steve Jobs was aware of procedural irregularities but did not benefit personally from the grants or understand the accounting implications.
http://www.itworld.com/Man/2698/061229jobsclear/index.html

Of course that is not a SEC review.

Something's abrew at Apple....where there's smoke......

I think this is another awful example of people thinking about their love of the almighty dollar than individual character. I want to go back to traditional values when people at least appeared honest!!

Apple would be history if MSFT hadn't bailed them out, and Gates only did that to maintain the facade of a fair market. As to Jobs -- the $1 salary is a dead-bang giveaway: If it looks too good to be true, it is. The Terminator doesn't take a salary for his job as CA Governor, but do you think he's doing that job for his health? Same with Jobs.

Steve Jobs - an American Hero? Hardly....

You're so right, Lisa...It turns out that the backdating of his 7.5 million option shares gave him a price advantage that translated into over $20 million. All told, Apple has taken a writroff of over $80 million because of the backdating. And they think this is going to go away?