Steve Jobs is alive and I say this again. Various reports of his physical condition and general health have circulated since we’ve seen him looking not that well at this year WWDC. While the iPhone was being sold in 1 million units during its first weekend, Apple’s shares dropped due to Steve’s rumored health problems.

But nobody pulled off such a stunt like Bloomberg the other day. When updating Steve Jobs future obituary Bloomberg managed to publish it. Human error? Sure. Did it get picked up by the media? Sure it did. Bloomberg has quite an audience. It would be nearly impossible to miss such news especially right now when Apple is so hot.

Did Bloomber retract the story? Well, sure they did:

Retraction:

Story Referencing Apple Was Sent in Error by Bloomberg News

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — An incomplete story referencing Apple
Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m.
New York time today. The item was never meant for publication and
has been retracted.

—Editor: Joe Winski, Cesca Antonelli

I guess Steve was even more surprised when people were checking if he was indeed alive.