Following months of uncertainty, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on track to return from medical leave later this month,
The Wall Street Journal reports. The big question now is whether Jobs will
make his reappearance at Apple's annual software developers' conference next week in San Francisco, where the company is expected to unveil the next iteration of its iPhone line of smartphones.
Jobs, who underwent a successful operation for pancreatic cancer, went on medical leave in January after exhibiting significant weight loss, for which he cited a nutritional problem related
to a hormone imbalance. His unexpected departure led to a drop in Apple's stock price, with investors uncertain whether the company's talisman would return. Apple, meanwhile, has been mum on the
subject since.
According to an unnamed source, Jobs's recovery "is coming along" and he is on track to return to work later this month. "He was one real sick guy," said the source.
"Fundamentally he was starving to death over a nine-month period. He couldn't digest protein. [But] he took corrective action."
Apple has repeatedly maintained that Jobs would return to
work at the end of June. The company issued a similar statement to the
Journal on Thursday.
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