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Jul 28, 2008

Apple CEO calls NYT

Gawker reports that The New York Times got an interesting phone call recently from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
The Times had already reported last week that Jobs underwent some sort of surgical procedure earlier this year and columnist Joe Nocera was preparing to report that Jobs was losing weight due to "ongoing digestive difficulty" and, possibly, due to a recent infection.
Well, Jobs had something to say about the speculation and after yelling, he would later offer details about his health "off the record."
The call began like this: "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.”
But soon Nocera realized Jobs was telling him exactly what he wanted to know. "After he hung up the phone, it occurred to me that I had just been handed, by Mr. Jobs himself, the very information he was refusing to share with the shareholders who have entrusted him with their money," Nocera told Gawker.
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