Did you know Steve Jobs can fly? Yeah, you know he has a private jet, but I meant Nathan Petrelli-style. Okay, I can’t prove it—the whole “having a jet” thing is pretty good cover for now. But consider these numbers crunched by Silicon Alley Insider in regards to Jobs’s recent travel on his Gulfstream.
Every quarter the company reimburses Steve for the amount he spends on jet fuel. Some believe there’s a connection that you can draw between said expense and the future of Apple, because Steve is so important to negotiations that he does more traveling when Apple is working on new products. Then again, Apple’s pretty much always working on new products, so that seems kind of silly. Anyway, the Insider points out that while the $189,000 reimbursement is lower than last year’s holiday quarter when Steve spent $550,000 on fuel, but more than the last couple quarters. Do you see the pattern? Because I sure as hell don’t.
We’re not going to take anything away from this until we get our hands of copies of Jobs’s latest tax returns to see how high his billable driving miles were. For all we know, he just likes to all of his shopping in London. I mean, can you blame him?
