Comments on: Apple's Jobs to skip annual shareholder meeting

CEO Steve Jobs' six-month medical leave of absence will keep him from attending Wednesday's annual meeting for the first time since he returned to Apple in 1997.

[gigo1000]

I wish Steve the best of health. I hope he gets back soon, he is alot more interesting than 99% of the rest of the computing world.

[Seaspray0]

"...corporate governance experts have called for Apple to make its plan for a post-Jobs Apple known to the public." I would think yes to shareholders posing questions about Jobs' absence based on that.

"...reporters are allowed to watch on closed-circuit television...." Stockholders only, right? How many shares do you have to own in order to get into the meeting itself?

[Tom Krazit]

I think the actual requirement is just a single share, but I'm not sure how it works in practice, since the auditorium where they hold the meeting is not all that big (200ish?) The overflow room is usually about half full, maybe another few dozen people, not including the reporters.

[rapier1]

Legally you only need to hold one share.

[trd1282]

"AAPL 88.29 DOWN -2.91, while MS is only down -0.36"

MSFT is only at 17.54, sheesh. They are both down roughly 3%, give me a break dude.

[thelemurking]

Nothing like trolls trolling trolls.

[rnaoncfixd]

I think this just stems out of jealousy because most Apple users tend to like Steve Jobs and most PC users tend to not like Steve Ballmer.

By the way, ALL companies use the Chinese $50 a month sweatshop. Just ask Nvidia.

[seven7dust]

Watever the case Apple's products last long and have great build quality !
even though their quality peaked in the G4 years and has degraded over time
they r still better of than Dell and HP by a big margin in both reliability and customer service

[kelmon]

I think it is hard for anyone to "like" Steve Jobs. What I can say is that he does a great presentation and obviously knows what he likes and what will sell. However, I also think he's pretty cold and ruthless so in that respect I don't think I can say that I "like" him. Certainly I wouldn't want to **** him off in case I find a horse's head in my bed or something...

[scottishwildcat--2008]

Jobs said he wasn't coming back to work for six months. Why is this news now?

[jerrybrace]

Good question. Lame excuse for a story Tom. The opposite situation (Jobs attending) would be more of a story. All the best to Steve.

[Vegaman_Dan]

I'm not sure why this is news other than it has "Apple" in the title, which I'll admit, made me read the story and generate more page views for the advertisers.

[Marc Bennett]

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[Marc Bennett]

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