Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the subject of health rumors that have affected the company’s share price, broke his silence with a statement today that he has a hormone imbalance and is getting treatment.
He will remain at the helm of Apple as he gets “relatively simple and straightforward” treatment for the “nutritional problem.”
Jobs’ late 2008 decision to sit out the keynote slot at the annual Macworld conference raised more speculation about his health following photographs last year of him appearing to have lost weight.
Jobs said his doctors expect it to take him until late spring to regain his body mass.
Apple’s board issued a concurrent statement expressing support for Jobs. “As we have said before if there ever comes a day when Steve wants to retire or for other reasons cannot continue to fulfill his duties as Apple’s CEO, you will know it,” the board said.
Jobs added in his own statement: “So now I’ve said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.” |