Apple (absurdly enough) called the editor of the magazine to ask them not to run the story. That's it--that's the entire extent of this article's "example."
If you think THAT is a heavy-handed tactic, you are clearly unfamiliar with the operations of any large corporation and its PR division
(Meanwhile, AI's misleading "attempted to silence" headline fits nicely with the myth that's so popular these days: Apple is evil, unlike "normal" corporations who ignore profit and shareholders. If you were responding to the headline without reading the article, I'm sure you're not alone.)
I 2nd that sentiment, I had already guessed what the headline (attempted to silence) didn't mean
i have it set to sync my photos, but even though the folder is there on my hard drive with 1000 old photos i took with my digital camera, the photos i took in the last month on my iphone are not there anymore
i went from Windows 7 RC to RTM on friday. restored all my itunes and other data and synced for the first time today. it froze during the sync process with the constant backing up iphone message
i was even joking with people at work today that i had to reinstall the OS on my cell phone. Apple made it familiar to us MS people
i was not aware that windows 7 went on sale yet. must have been some party, huh?
Now, after having read the entire article, I must admit, that I didn't find it offensive at all. In fact, quite the opposite.
And this is one who has personally bought nearly a 100 Macs since 1984.
It is a great read.
I also think that Job's would have made a great King of France. Certainly France may have had a better outcome than what has transpired since the last beheading.
i was not aware that windows 7 went on sale yet. must have been some party, huh?
if you have a Technet or MSDN subscription it became available on August 6th. The official launch is in October, but MS is giving the official shipping version out to select people. I get MSDN from my employer and i get as many free legit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate as I want. You go to the website, log in and generate a key for yourself. I read the license and you can even give it out to friends. just download the iso and burn a DVD
I've interviewed a few lame candidates, and I must admit that if I were a multi-billionaire who didn't need to give a crap about what other people thought, I'd probably gobble like a turkey if that fit the situation. Sure, it's not politically correct, but I've noticed that these multi-billionaire types didn't get where they are by cowtowing to everyone else's extreme oversensitivity to everything.
The bottom line (human interest anectodes or none) should be: Does the person do what they need to do to move the company forward? Steve does.
Gobbling like a turkey is just pure rude. It would have been funny had the job seeker started clucking like a chicken in response to Steve's antics.. maybe he would have gotten the job. In any event, the next keynote Steve gives, everyone gobble for one minute and let's see what the Stevester does...
Bottom line one can do what they need to do but that doesn't alway equate to moving the company forward! Time only tells if there exploits were successful.
snip. Why is it that an X-Box 360 can be bought for $299 and it has more features than an Apple TV?
because microsoft poured millions (billions?) of dollars into getting a piece of the console market at any price. it's how they do business. if the xbox 360 (or the ps3 for that matter) had been priced to actually make a profit, it would cost at least twice that and would gather dust in distributor's warehouses. (millions shipped! woohoo!).
that's why.
I recall reading that microsoft set aside a billion (with a dollars just to deal with the red ring of death issue. they don't break out the profitability of the xbox and zune for the same reason apple doesn't release the sales number on the apple tv: bad numbers don't make investors happy.
if you have a Technet or MSDN subscription it became available on August 6th. The official launch is in October, but MS is giving the official shipping version out to select people. I get MSDN from my employer and i get as many free legit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate as I want. You go to the website, log in and generate a key for yourself. I read the license and you can even give it out to friends. just download the iso and burn a DVD
thanks! didn't know that...
so do you think your itunes/iphone problem is a windows 7 issue or did you have the same problem before?
i have it set to sync my photos, but even though the folder is there on my hard drive with 1000 old photos i took with my digital camera, the photos i took in the last month on my iphone are not there anymore
i went from Windows 7 RC to RTM on friday. restored all my itunes and other data and synced for the first time today. it froze during the sync process with the constant backing up iphone message
i was even joking with people at work today that i had to reinstall the OS on my cell phone. Apple made it familiar to us MS people
So you're running Windows 7, and not expecting any problems? Is that a funny joke of some kind?
I run Mac OS 10.5.8, no problems. I run Windows where it belongs, as a shell program.
I've been running Itunes on my x64 Windows 7 for months and its been OK.
to go from a pre-release to the shipping version you have to format your HD and install Windows from scratch which i did on friday. first i deauthorized my computer in itunes and when i installed Windows i copied all my data back and pointed itunes to my library and imported the xml file with all my playlists.
problem is when i came in this morning and tried to sync my iphone for the first time since last week it froze on the backing up iphone for a few hours. and i was running 3.0.1 which did fix the initial bug where it takes 30 minutes to backup your phone.
so i did what everyone on the Apple support forums and other Mac sites say to do. Restore your phone as a new phone.
So you're running Windows 7, and not expecting any problems? Is that a funny joke of some kind?
I run Mac OS 10.5.8, no problems. I run Windows where it belongs, as a shell program.
except for the annoying RSS feeds bug Windows 7 has been OK. the beta was faster than Vista
i don't mind going to Max OS, i just don't like Apple's hardware choices
and if i make a list, the iphone has just as much bugs as Windows and other cell phones. And a lot of them are things Apple should not have released if they want to be known as a premium brand. and lately it seems like there is a weekly story about problems with Apple products
Wait a minute, can you clarify the racist accusation? I didn't notice anything that stood out.
Not only were you not racist, the characterization of Che was spot on. The man was a ruthless killer, no matter how much the media wants to romanticize him. He was a man who would put a gun to your head, the heads of your wife and children, and blow all of your brains out if you didn't share his ideology or if it were convenient for him as a means to make a point. He once stated that if the soviet union had given Cuba the reigns to the nuclear missiles they stationed there during the cuban missile crisis, they (meaning Che and his cohorts) would have used them. He meant it. So, there is your hero: a murderous thug who would happily have incinerated literally millions of innocent people (and perhaps extinguished the human race) over his ideology.
What is amiss, of course, is the comparison of steve Jobs to THAT.
I am an investor is Apple stock and I respect the company and the ability of SJ. However, as an individual he is a flawed man. If a candidate is not suitable for job, all SJ has to do is end the interview politely and go from there. No need to insult a candidate who probably studied and worked hard all his/her life to even merit an interview. What a jerk!
Again, he is nothing new to this. His parents dumped him in the middle of night to be adopted by total stranger. When SJ had his daughter in the early 1980s, he did not even acknowledge her as his... they did not have DNA testing back then. He did not pay child support for 2 months. Dead beat dad was already worth $400M and that was 1980 dollars!
Very different person than say William Hewlett or Bill Packard. Or even Sam Walton.
I am an investor is Apple stock and I respect the company and the ability of SJ. However, as an individual he is a flawed man. If a candidate is not suitable for job, all SJ has to do is end the interview politely and go from there. No need to insult a candidate who probably studied and worked hard all his/her life to even merit an interview. What a jerk!
Again, he is nothing new to this. His parents dumped him in the middle of night to be adopted by total stranger. When SJ had his daughter in the early 1980s, he did not even acknowledge her as his... they did not have DNA testing back then. He did not pay child support for 2 months. Dead beat dad was already worth $400M and that was 1980 dollars!
Very different person than say William Hewlett or Bill Packard. Or even Sam Walton.
I just want to point out that everyone has done things at one time or another in their lives that were rude, insensitive, and obnoxious. Most of us who want to become better people are, in fact, more kind, less impulsive, and wiser in our actions today than perhaps we were in our youth. As a rule we are all imperfect, but also we do tend to improve with age if we are conscientious and actually desire to do so.
The difference between most of us and SJ (aside from being unbelievably wealthy and all the rest) is that nobody has any interest in recounting our various mistakes, gaffes, and regrettable errors of civility, nor do they have any interest in insisting that the person we are today is one that is merely older than the one we were many years ago.
there is a wifi password bug. back in March when i first bought a 3G for my wife i brought it in to work for a quick test and it took me 5 minutes to add it to our wifi network with a password that's close to 20 characters. on my 3GS it won't take the password and i've read about similar complaints. good thing we have a DSL for the IT department that is outside the official corporate wifi network.
The wifi seems to cut in and out sometimes, which people on a lot of Apple forums complained about on OS 3 and the 3GS
there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well.
if you enable push for email it will eat up the battery like it's a store brand AA. my blackberry can receive email for days without running down the battery. only time i ran my BB battery down was when i left ubertwitter run in the background.
The backing up iphone bug which was fixed in 3.0.1 where it would take a long time to back up your phone when you sync.
I am an investor is Apple stock and I respect the company and the ability of SJ. However, as an individual he is a flawed man. If a candidate is not suitable for job, all SJ has to do is end the interview politely and go from there. No need to insult a candidate who probably studied and worked hard all his/her life to even merit an interview. What a jerk! ...
I kind of disagree.
I've been involved in a lot of hiring interviews over the years on both sides of the table and all Steve Jobs did (and only in a couple of cases BTW out of hundreds and hundreds of interviews), is humiliate a couple of jerks who shouldn't really have bothered to apply.
Anyone who has done a lot of interviews has interviewed at least a couple of these kinds of people and probably wished they could do what Jobs ended up doing. I'm too polite to have ever done it myself, but I don't see it as such a big deal. Most interviews are highly structured, totally deceptive affairs where the interviewee lies and lies about how much they want the job and the prospective employer lies and lies about how they might want to hire you when in fact they rarely actually do.
A little intermittent honesty never hurt anyone really, despite the bruised egos, and probably gave the prospective employee a good idea of what it would be like working for Jobs in general. If they can't rise up and take control of their own interview, what chance would they have if hired?
It's also worth noting that no one Jobs ever treated that way has ever come back with the assertion that they *should* have been hired, or even that they *wanted* to be hired after being treated that way. They are just "upset about the way they were treated" in the interview. So what.
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Apple (absurdly enough) called the editor of the magazine to ask them not to run the story. That's it--that's the entire extent of this article's "example."
If you think THAT is a heavy-handed tactic, you are clearly unfamiliar with the operations of any large corporation and its PR division
(Meanwhile, AI's misleading "attempted to silence" headline fits nicely with the myth that's so popular these days: Apple is evil, unlike "normal" corporations who ignore profit and shareholders. If you were responding to the headline without reading the article, I'm sure you're not alone.)
I 2nd that sentiment, I had already guessed what the headline (attempted to silence) didn't mean
"How many times have you done acid?" Heck, you can't ask someone if they are a US citizen nowadays.
Not all that believable, but funny! Why would he want the guy to not like him? He was doing the hiring!
i have it set to sync my photos, but even though the folder is there on my hard drive with 1000 old photos i took with my digital camera, the photos i took in the last month on my iphone are not there anymore
i went from Windows 7 RC to RTM on friday. restored all my itunes and other data and synced for the first time today. it froze during the sync process with the constant backing up iphone message
i was even joking with people at work today that i had to reinstall the OS on my cell phone. Apple made it familiar to us MS people
i was not aware that windows 7 went on sale yet. must have been some party, huh?
And this is one who has personally bought nearly a 100 Macs since 1984.
It is a great read.
I also think that Job's would have made a great King of France. Certainly France may have had a better outcome than what has transpired since the last beheading.
i was not aware that windows 7 went on sale yet. must have been some party, huh?
if you have a Technet or MSDN subscription it became available on August 6th. The official launch is in October, but MS is giving the official shipping version out to select people. I get MSDN from my employer and i get as many free legit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate as I want. You go to the website, log in and generate a key for yourself. I read the license and you can even give it out to friends. just download the iso and burn a DVD
I've interviewed a few lame candidates, and I must admit that if I were a multi-billionaire who didn't need to give a crap about what other people thought, I'd probably gobble like a turkey if that fit the situation. Sure, it's not politically correct, but I've noticed that these multi-billionaire types didn't get where they are by cowtowing to everyone else's extreme oversensitivity to everything.
The bottom line (human interest anectodes or none) should be: Does the person do what they need to do to move the company forward? Steve does.
Gobbling like a turkey is just pure rude. It would have been funny had the job seeker started clucking like a chicken in response to Steve's antics.. maybe he would have gotten the job. In any event, the next keynote Steve gives, everyone gobble for one minute and let's see what the Stevester does...
Bottom line one can do what they need to do but that doesn't alway equate to moving the company forward! Time only tells if there exploits were successful.
snip. Why is it that an X-Box 360 can be bought for $299 and it has more features than an Apple TV?
because microsoft poured millions (billions?) of dollars into getting a piece of the console market at any price. it's how they do business. if the xbox 360 (or the ps3 for that matter) had been priced to actually make a profit, it would cost at least twice that and would gather dust in distributor's warehouses. (millions shipped! woohoo!).
that's why.
I recall reading that microsoft set aside a billion (with a
if you have a Technet or MSDN subscription it became available on August 6th. The official launch is in October, but MS is giving the official shipping version out to select people. I get MSDN from my employer and i get as many free legit copy of Windows 7 Ultimate as I want. You go to the website, log in and generate a key for yourself. I read the license and you can even give it out to friends. just download the iso and burn a DVD
thanks! didn't know that...
so do you think your itunes/iphone problem is a windows 7 issue or did you have the same problem before?
i have it set to sync my photos, but even though the folder is there on my hard drive with 1000 old photos i took with my digital camera, the photos i took in the last month on my iphone are not there anymore
i went from Windows 7 RC to RTM on friday. restored all my itunes and other data and synced for the first time today. it froze during the sync process with the constant backing up iphone message
i was even joking with people at work today that i had to reinstall the OS on my cell phone. Apple made it familiar to us MS people
So you're running Windows 7, and not expecting any problems? Is that a funny joke of some kind?
I run Mac OS 10.5.8, no problems. I run Windows where it belongs, as a shell program.
to go from a pre-release to the shipping version you have to format your HD and install Windows from scratch which i did on friday. first i deauthorized my computer in itunes and when i installed Windows i copied all my data back and pointed itunes to my library and imported the xml file with all my playlists.
problem is when i came in this morning and tried to sync my iphone for the first time since last week it froze on the backing up iphone for a few hours. and i was running 3.0.1 which did fix the initial bug where it takes 30 minutes to backup your phone.
so i did what everyone on the Apple support forums and other Mac sites say to do. Restore your phone as a new phone.
So you're running Windows 7, and not expecting any problems? Is that a funny joke of some kind?
I run Mac OS 10.5.8, no problems. I run Windows where it belongs, as a shell program.
except for the annoying RSS feeds bug Windows 7 has been OK. the beta was faster than Vista
i don't mind going to Max OS, i just don't like Apple's hardware choices
and if i make a list, the iphone has just as much bugs as Windows and other cell phones. And a lot of them are things Apple should not have released if they want to be known as a premium brand. and lately it seems like there is a weekly story about problems with Apple products
Wait a minute, can you clarify the racist accusation? I didn't notice anything that stood out.
Not only were you not racist, the characterization of Che was spot on. The man was a ruthless killer, no matter how much the media wants to romanticize him. He was a man who would put a gun to your head, the heads of your wife and children, and blow all of your brains out if you didn't share his ideology or if it were convenient for him as a means to make a point. He once stated that if the soviet union had given Cuba the reigns to the nuclear missiles they stationed there during the cuban missile crisis, they (meaning Che and his cohorts) would have used them. He meant it. So, there is your hero: a murderous thug who would happily have incinerated literally millions of innocent people (and perhaps extinguished the human race) over his ideology.
What is amiss, of course, is the comparison of steve Jobs to THAT.
except for the annoying RSS feeds bug Windows 7 has been OK. the beta was faster than Vista
i don't mind going to Max OS, i just don't like Apple's hardware choices
and if i make a list, the iphone has just as much bugs as Windows and other cell phones.
What are those bugs?
Again, he is nothing new to this. His parents dumped him in the middle of night to be adopted by total stranger. When SJ had his daughter in the early 1980s, he did not even acknowledge her as his... they did not have DNA testing back then. He did not pay child support for 2 months. Dead beat dad was already worth $400M and that was 1980 dollars!
Very different person than say William Hewlett or Bill Packard. Or even Sam Walton.
I am an investor is Apple stock and I respect the company and the ability of SJ. However, as an individual he is a flawed man. If a candidate is not suitable for job, all SJ has to do is end the interview politely and go from there. No need to insult a candidate who probably studied and worked hard all his/her life to even merit an interview. What a jerk!
Again, he is nothing new to this. His parents dumped him in the middle of night to be adopted by total stranger. When SJ had his daughter in the early 1980s, he did not even acknowledge her as his... they did not have DNA testing back then. He did not pay child support for 2 months. Dead beat dad was already worth $400M and that was 1980 dollars!
Very different person than say William Hewlett or Bill Packard. Or even Sam Walton.
I just want to point out that everyone has done things at one time or another in their lives that were rude, insensitive, and obnoxious. Most of us who want to become better people are, in fact, more kind, less impulsive, and wiser in our actions today than perhaps we were in our youth. As a rule we are all imperfect, but also we do tend to improve with age if we are conscientious and actually desire to do so.
The difference between most of us and SJ (aside from being unbelievably wealthy and all the rest) is that nobody has any interest in recounting our various mistakes, gaffes, and regrettable errors of civility, nor do they have any interest in insisting that the person we are today is one that is merely older than the one we were many years ago.
What are those bugs?
there is a wifi password bug. back in March when i first bought a 3G for my wife i brought it in to work for a quick test and it took me 5 minutes to add it to our wifi network with a password that's close to 20 characters. on my 3GS it won't take the password and i've read about similar complaints. good thing we have a DSL for the IT department that is outside the official corporate wifi network.
The wifi seems to cut in and out sometimes, which people on a lot of Apple forums complained about on OS 3 and the 3GS
there is a duplicate contacts bug which i've seen people complain about. in my case i'm grabbing email from MS Exchange and told ITunes to sync my Outlook contacts which are my Exhchange contacts as well since it's all on the Exchange server. For the last 2 months i've had double and quadruple contacts of the same person. This morning when i restored my phone i told it not to sync contacts in itunes and it's OK now. all my contacts came in just fine via active sync. and if you read the Apple Support forums, people have had this issue with MobileMe as well.
if you enable push for email it will eat up the battery like it's a store brand AA. my blackberry can receive email for days without running down the battery. only time i ran my BB battery down was when i left ubertwitter run in the background.
The backing up iphone bug which was fixed in 3.0.1 where it would take a long time to back up your phone when you sync.
Another example of Apple paranoia and heavy handed tatics.
Why don't you find a nice, sharp stick and sit on it. What an a-hole.
I am an investor is Apple stock and I respect the company and the ability of SJ. However, as an individual he is a flawed man. If a candidate is not suitable for job, all SJ has to do is end the interview politely and go from there. No need to insult a candidate who probably studied and worked hard all his/her life to even merit an interview. What a jerk! ...
I kind of disagree.
I've been involved in a lot of hiring interviews over the years on both sides of the table and all Steve Jobs did (and only in a couple of cases BTW out of hundreds and hundreds of interviews), is humiliate a couple of jerks who shouldn't really have bothered to apply.
Anyone who has done a lot of interviews has interviewed at least a couple of these kinds of people and probably wished they could do what Jobs ended up doing. I'm too polite to have ever done it myself, but I don't see it as such a big deal. Most interviews are highly structured, totally deceptive affairs where the interviewee lies and lies about how much they want the job and the prospective employer lies and lies about how they might want to hire you when in fact they rarely actually do.
A little intermittent honesty never hurt anyone really, despite the bruised egos, and probably gave the prospective employee a good idea of what it would be like working for Jobs in general. If they can't rise up and take control of their own interview, what chance would they have if hired?
It's also worth noting that no one Jobs ever treated that way has ever come back with the assertion that they *should* have been hired, or even that they *wanted* to be hired after being treated that way. They are just "upset about the way they were treated" in the interview. So what.
What are those bugs?
LET'S BRING UP AN EXAMPLE TO PUT THIS WHOLE THING TO REST:
---STEVE BALLMUR----
nuff said