Imagine, seriously, the response if Microsoft pulled shit like this. Or any company. Imagine Jeffrey Immelt at GE doing this. Or Alan Mulally at Ford. Or Rupert Murdoch. Can you imagine any of those guys, or any of those companies, behaving in this way? Of course not.

Dan Lyons on Steve Jobs’s behaviour towards Joe Nocera. I retold this story to my Dad (who incidentally works for GE) and he agrees. And Dan has a point, though as John Gruber points out, this is only valid if Jobs’s health issues aren’t embarrassing or private – both of which I think are good reasons to go off-the-record but still want to ‘announce’ that he is OK etc.