If I were GS, let people short AAPL at the beginning and then suddenly do a sweep buy and squueze the shit out of shorts.
I do not like the sound of this leave of absence. Apple stock price will have to be adjusted to reflect what might be Jobs departure.
That might also be a plan to evaluate APPLE's stock if he leaves and 5 days later, they might announce Jobs is back for ever to take the stock to $400. Reemember when they left the phone in a bar?
Jobs is the last great tech iconoclast. He has beaten the odds so far, so you can never count him out.
Let me come back on here and let you in on something for your own good. It is a crime to make a terrorist threat. A terrorist threat is a threat to commit violence communicated with the intent to terrorize another. I would not be making such threats on an open public messageboard especially with the witch hunt going on right now after the shooting in Arizona. What you want to do now is send a message to Baron or one of the mods to have your message deleted before its taken seriously.