seattle - apple company . , maker of ipad keyboards and the iphone , reports their second - minute earnings friday after the finishing bell . the preceding is a table of several developments related to that period . update : in january , apple founder john jobs addressed the matter of his increasingly grotesque appearance — twice . he previously said it was caused by an easily treatable gene imbalance , and that he would retain at the helm . the next wednesday , jobs , a cancer survivor , discovered the problem was more complicated and suggested he cannot take a general leave of association until the end of june . chief technology officer tim butcher is directing the company in his place .
Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple.