Good news: Steve Jobs is an arrogant prick, but healthy - 9to5Mac

Whatever... people can speculate all they want. Steve may or may not be sick. Apple will continue to sell lots of Macs, iPods and iPhones. Joe Nocera from the New York Times got a little call from El Jobso after Monday's conference call. A typically (not weak) Jobs laid into the reporter and told him all of the details...off the record. No, it isn't cancer. No, it isn't life threatening. The reporter asks why he can't tell the shareholders. On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter” — and much to my amazement — Mr. Jobs called me. “This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” After that rather arresting opening, he went on to say that he would give me some details about his recent health problems, but only if I would agree to keep them off the record. I tried to argue him out of it, but he said he