breaking news: Steve Jobs stepping down from CEO... - Thomas Hawk

COO Tim Cook to be responsible for day to day. - Thomas Hawk

at least a 5 month hiatus for Jobs. - Thomas Hawk

I'd scream "FAKE", but it's Thomas Hawk. - Ben Parr

oh my - look for my $ to go down the tubes tomorrow! - planetMitch

SELL! SELL! - Daniel J. Pritchett

Nope - 5 month leave of absence - for health reasons - Brian Roy

Source? - Faramarz Hashemi

Twitter just borked - Hutch Carpenter

Ditto - where are you hearing or seeing this ? - Christopher Chan

FUCK - orionstarr

source: CNBC - Thomas Hawk

Uh-oh. In this economy Apple stock is going DOWN. - Roberto Bonini

Well, it's not like we didn't see this coming. - Derrick

analyst saying he expects stock to open at around $75 tomorrow down $10 from today's close. - Thomas Hawk

Wow. End of an era. - Tris Hussey

to be expected - Adri Munier

It's on CNBC and trading is halted on Apple stock. Whoa. - EricaJoy

Give it at least 2 years, and Jobs will force his way in again, and manage to oust his successor somehow... - Tyson Key

Anyone want to keep sayign it is non of our business how his health is? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

I'm sorry all - this is all my fault. This always happen when I buy some companies stock. - Andy Roth

Let the lawsuits begin... - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

check out the "Steve Jobs Lives" t-shirt :) http://tcritic.com/archive... - karl

I was on Friendfeed when the world stopped turning - morten saxnaes

email jobs sent out to all apple employees today: http://in.sys-con.com/node... - Thomas Hawk

http://online.wsj.com/public... The breaking news banner. - mikepk

This is the end of an era. His health must be pretty bad at this point. I wish Apple would have just taken the "we don't comment on the health of our executives" position rather than lie and lie. - drew olanoff

:( what can you do. the company has been doing it's best to prolong the inevitable. there shouldn't be any panic in the market. - Faramarz Hashemi

This is certainly not a good sign for him. Apple will survive and likely thrive; he may not. - Karoli

Last time he stepped down apple went to crap I hear, I'm not happy at all. - orionstarr

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits... Reprint of the letter - mikepk

AAPL->SELL! :( - AJ Batac

Jim Goldman on CNBC quoting a tech industry executive as saying that Jobs health is dire and that Jobs is in denial. - Thomas Hawk

you guys are funny - Josh Haley

Goldman is a moron and unreliable. - Mona Nomura

Who is Steve Jobs? - Morgan

Will he be resuming the CEO post then, or just sit on the board when he returns at the end of June? - Chris Charabaruk

Steve's health isn't good -- anyone could see it. The exec moves over the past several months were removing contenders for the successor. Steve cultivated people with similar passions, but only one could win. Like Mac design. One ring to bind them all. It was Steve, now he won't be back. - Mitch Ratcliffe

I hate to be cavalier, but my Mac is still running and my iPhone still works too... Time will tell if the board learned from what happened last time Steve left. WE should also be aware that the circumstances were VERY different last time. - Brian Roy

so much for scoble's yogurt guy (ducking) - Dave Winer

OK folks, lets all take a pill and calm down. While there is no reason to think Jobs won't be back, Apple will survive without him. To say that Apple is going to fail without him is an insult to all the creative, intelligent people at Apple who actually design and build the products. - Kenton

CNBC says that the stock should reopen in extended trading in 10 minutes at 5pm EST. - Thomas Hawk

There´s a rumour Jobs may be back in a white bionic iSuit already in March at 110% strength ! buy... buy my stock.. nah. ;) (Seriously hope he´ll recover though, whenever). - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Stock and geeky concerns aside, I gotta wish Jobs the best. - Tom Landini

Matthew - when you're done can I have Flash? EDIT: Mona rightly points out that this was a tactless comment. Oops. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I agree with @Kenton, Apple isn't only Jobs. - Thom Allen

For investment purposes, people have to assume he won't be back, because a week ago he said he wasn't going anywhere. But agree with Landini, I wish Steve a long healthy life. - Mitch Ratcliffe

+++ Matthew - Josh Haley

This man is ILL and you guys are discussing FLASH ON A PHONE? Are you KIDDING ME? - Mona Nomura

This is the next move in a series of calculated plans to have Steve step down. 5 months will be permanent. - Spencer

I think it has been pretty crummy how Apple has bene trying to hide this from investors, so now many of them are blindsided. I hope Steve recovers but frankly Apple needs to ditch him now... no one can trust anythign Apple says about him. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Jobs become obsolete - Talent prevails (Ad on msnbc.com a couple of days back, truly not my words.) - Tomi Itkonen

Damn. In the end this won't matter at all. Hoping for the best personally for His Jobness though! - Mike Flynn

There is a time and place to discuss certain things. The thread is about Steve Jobs, his health, and him stepping down to go on medical leave. That is like going to a funeral and small talking about the person who passed away's funeral expenses. Disgusting and tactless. - Mona Nomura

watch'in it on tv, shitty :( - videopixil

Apple stock opening now. Trading around 76. - Thomas Hawk

On search.twitter.com/?q=Steve%20Jobs you can only go back to &page=100 (100 pages back chronologically) and the oldest tweet I could see had a link to Thomas' FF post right here where we're all commenting. - Micah

$76.60 down -$11.21 real time. - Thomas Hawk

stock coming back a bit. down $8.72 now at $78.80. - Thomas Hawk

I'm getting to this thread late -- is it known that he has Pancreatic cancer? - Marko Bon

Part of Steve's problem is he is not getting enough protein. Somebody get him a steak stat! - gfurry

damn, fight on cnbc too - videopixil

Are you really asking for permission? Or looking to e-fight? -- rhetorical, which means you don't have to answer. Clearly you have no tact, so this conversation is done (from my end). Carry on. - Mona Nomura

how can i buy some apple stocks? - hector juarez

hector juarez, just what i was wondering. never bought stocks/shares before. - Simon Wicks

Breaking news: Apple stock plummets! - Tamar Weinberg

Great all my Apple stock down the drain! - Sweyn Venderbush

I don't really worry about occasional dropped stocks. It will go back up again. We're in a recession anyway... the stock was naturally better in August. - Tamar Weinberg

Tsega: it's not sad. It's human. I know Michael Jordan. How about Tiger Woods. Barack Obama? Superstars cause stuff to happen. - Robert Scoble

That's why there is a "face of the company" position. I hope for a speedy recovery... - Anthony Farrior

If a person is ill, but otherwise neurologically intact, does that really mean they can't make decisions anymore? Not in my professional opinion. - Victor Ganata

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1... - is this news. - yodhe

it's probably good for Jobs that this news is out. Not having to hide his health anymore means that's one big stressful thing to be out from under. Hopefully now that this news is out he can distance himself a bit from the intense scrutiny I'm sure he's been under and work on getting his health back. - Thomas Hawk

Direct: http://www.apple.com/pr... - Nick Humphries

I guess he hasn't been eating his apples. - Tanath

Wow… "eating his apples"? :D That's quite creative. - Daniel Schildt