Mengapa Kita Perlu Steve Jobs Love him or hate him, kebutuhan para CEO Apple kembali. Sekarang.

Yes, as the respected investor watchdog Corporate Library suggests in its blog, "shareholders deserve to know how serious Jobs' health problems are and what impact his illness and recovery will have on the company's strategy and operations."

But GigaOM says all the drama "makes you wonder whether those writing breathless dispatches on someone's frail health, as though they were auditioning for a job as Perez Hilton's research assistant, know anyone with a life-threatening illness."

Edible Apple reasons: "The bottom line is that health is a private matter, and to publicly demand that someone make their private health condition known to the public is classless."

Daring Fireball suggests this really seems like a spat between the Journal and the Times about who owns the story.

Still, Dan Lyons argues at a Newsweek online post that Apple and the world still need Jobs: "Those lines at the Apple store today? [Apple COO] Tim Cook didn't create those."

And Lyons, writing as Jobs in his revived Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, writes that the hospital's explanation won't get the media "to stop slandering me based on unfounded rumor and speculation...the hacks will just move on to the next complaint...The vultures will never leave me alone."