You'd think the guy had been missing for some time or something. Wednesday's Apple event, which was billed as the typical annual music-focus Apple event, covered a lot more than just that, as well as re-introducing a certain CEO to the audience.

Steve Jobs, the guru of Apple is recovering very well, his doctor says.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who has been on an extended medical leave since mid-January, had a liver transplant two months ago, reports the Wall Street Journal. He is still on target to return at the end of June, according to the report.

It was 25 years ago today, January 24, 1984 when the Macintosh first went on sale. According to Apple's Super Bowl ad, it was set to revolutionize personal computing, and it did.

How much information should companies be expected to make public on issues like - say - their CEO’s health? Individual exchanges have their own rules about disclosure.

There are a lot of talks about Apple’s future and how Apple can survive without Jobs. Jobs is probably the most hands on CEO in the world (for companies of this size) and I’ve heard many stories from his direct reports how he makes all final decisions even on very small things. I mean small things such as the placement of logo and small design touches.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced he will be taking a medical leave, effective now through the end of June. Apple COO Tim Cook will run the company until then.

Another Steve Jobs health rumor? No, not a rumor this time. Information from an open letter from Steve Jobs, filed via press release, confirms that he is skipping Macworld due to illness. Yet, at the time of this writing, AAPL stock is up! The reasons: openness, and a non-dire illness.

On Tuesday Apple made two announcements bound to enflame the Mac users of the world: one, the 2009 Macworld Expo will be its last, and two: Steve Jobs will not give the keynote.

Earlier this month a story was posted to CNN's iReport social news site which caused Apple stock to plummet. The stories on that site are not vetted before they are allowed to appear on the site. The story said:

A false report on CNN's new social news site, iReport, caused Apple stock to plummet on Friday morning. The site allows users to post unvetted, unfiltered stories, and a report of a massive heart attack suffered by Steve Jobs caused the drop (as you can see in the posted image).

MobileMe's launch has been anything but smooth. It was so bad that Apple has even offered a 30-day extension to those whose accounts were active as of July 9, 2008. Personally, they should just do the right thing and give everyone an extension, up until they finally bless the service as "fixed."