So Jobs has been in Memphis, TN for a while now, it seems. A blog posted this speculation months ago, an update appears there now:
"Apple CEO Steve Jobs lives at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a swank part of downtown Memphis in a yellow house with white trim and a pool in the backyard. Or maybe he doesn’t."
Many articles like this one in the NYTimes about Jobs’ liver transplant.
Apple Chief Reportedly Had Liver Transplant – NYTimes.com
Most have been without much information and much reference to direct sources. The reader comments on these articles show that the topic inspires incredible, irrational passion for some. They have no idea how long he was waiting or really why it was done. Or really if it was done. They simply assume. Other articles speculate on the timing of the news release in relation to the new iPhone 3G S and "distraction". Maybe but who really knows?
I was particularly disappointed in the extrapolation of this event to be the manifestation of the common social challenges we have in medical treatment and the plight of the poor. Some even seem to “hate” him for his wealth and success. To trash the iPod, the Mac and the things Apple create as "useless gadgets." I don’t get this scorn. Speculation on time to get a liver has led many to this odd spew against capitalism and an entrepreneur that has created more jobs and wealth to so many people. My life is easier, my investments healthier, my ability to give to charity more likely because of the tools he has in part created as part of Apple, his ability to inspire me to invest in his company.
Without companies like Apple or the people who create them we would not be the country we are. And if you don’t like this country or the capitalism that created it, then you really don’t get it. Move to Cuba or China. Oh, wait, they are changing too. I expect that it’s all of our responsibility to create a better way for people to get healthcare in the US. I’ll wait for the article that uncovers his pay-offs to Memphis hospitals and the donor with the cash that saved him to make speculation. The reality of it is unknown so all of this speculation is based on emotion, not facts. I’m sorry that some are self described “poor and insolvable,” but I believe the angry are bitter and missing the idea that he wasn’t raised with a silver spoon or given any of this. I value every life, even the ones that I admit I sometimes envy. I’m sorry for these angry souls’ distress and I hope that they find something in the news that inspires them to build a small business, find work or a social organization to help. But this may not be the place to look for it. The key is to let the billionaires in these pages inspire you and with that inspiration help you find a way out of the poverty of the mind as well as the poverty of the wallet.
regardless. So what I want to know is – change to what. I know we need it, I don’t like what the Dems are proposing, I don’t know what the Repls are proposing. Its all reteric now – I quite frankly don’t trust Hillary and Mit – they both have changed what they are saying so much – that thats all I can count on in regard to change from them. I fall back to McCain as that is about all I can do. I just wish I could get comfortable with a guy like Huckabee – but I’m Jewish and don’t know what that means to him. So we have some time – and time to change, my mind. 
