Well everyone is swooning over a email from Steve Jobs and here I go and contact him personally about the glossy screen issue and he responds with a 15" matte screen MacBook Pro in like two weeks.
Do I get any press? No.
Do I have proof of contact, yes. (and don't ask because it gives up sensitive info on the guy)
Do I care about fanboi fame because of it? No.
Why am I writing about it? Because it's no big deal and so shouldn't this whining by some developer who doesn't have the brains to change the name now that he been successful.
Changing the name while the product is first being launched, that's being cruel. And Apple didn't do that.
Must be a slow week or something and this was all designed as a clever trick to get free advertising.
Ok, everyone now knows iPodRip is iRip. I'll remember that when some fool calls me who doesn't back up their data or clone their hard drive like everyone should be doing.
And Steve isn't a *ahole or all the other things said here in this thread, he actually helped the guy plot a easy way out of his mistake and made press for him to use to announce the name change.
Or put an Apple in your logo. I'm surpised they haven't sued NewYork state yet - the big Apple. Or the Apple Bank for Savings.
Trademark protection is limited to your industry. So, Big Apple = Tourism, Apple Bank = Finance, Apple = Computers, no problem there. Apple Corps = Music Publishing, Apple = Computers, no problem if the computers don't play music (which, in the 1980's, they didn't). iPod = Computers, iPodRip = Computers, there's your problem.
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Originally Posted by MacTripper
Well everyone is swooning over a email from Steve Jobs and here I go and contact him personally about the glossy screen issue and he responds with a 15" matte screen MacBook Pro in like two weeks.
Awesome, thanks for getting Apple to bring back the matte option!
Not that big of a deal. Odd comment coming from a guy who's company has paid out a lot of money to keep the name Apple, and also a of money to use the name iPhone and also started using the name iPhone despite someone else owning the trademark for it. In both cases couldn't they have just "Changed the name" given that someone was always using it.
Don't blame them for banning it, its in their culture to. No need to be rude and slightly hypocritical about it though.
The guy who wrote the original email is a tool and fanboy with no sense of self worth. He is a hipster who failed at school so instead of trying he dropped out to go to Starbucks everyday, play with iChat and write mac software. I think it's working out for him now
No. He should have Jonathan Ive design a more minimalist apostrophe, for multi-billionaires.
If you go back and read what I wrote, it was about "you're" versus "youre" and the missing apostrophe and multi-billionaires..... oh well, whatever..... lame, I guess. \
He is a hipster who failed at school so instead of trying he dropped out to go to Starbucks everyday, play with iChat and write mac software. I think it's working out for him now
Seriously guys? Seriously? Why the **** does an article like this get 125 responses? Is everyone THAT gay for him?
Good grief.
Get a life, man. Or go away.
There were some serious posts here, among other things, on the issue of trademarks.
The fact that some of it got hijacked with some silly back-and-forth.... big deal: quite apart from the fact that it happens a lot with a couple of inveterately obtuse posters, obviously, it is not as though the opportunity cost of your own time is particularly high.
I don't see anything wrong with either email. The iRip dude wrote what he needed and Steve replied as he needed. Both parties were respectful.
Not everything is about one-upsmanship.
So iRip guy was a little emotional... So Steve was a little terse... No big whoop, just people being people.
The comments about Steve showing that guy what-for and so on are mean-spirited. The real story here is that Steve averted a show-down; he neither instigated nor inflamed a battle. It was no big deal. I think the whole exchange was rather friendly, actually.
I find it sad that so many posters here have determined that Steve's response is proof positive that he is an a-hole, arrogant, self serving, etc., etc., etc..
Steve's email is a short, concise, non-spoken means of communicating his point and recommendation.
What some people have read into it is absurd.
I mean, really. When did "concise and to the point" become "terse"?
Imagine that you received this exact message from your family, best friend or loved one.
Nice, arrogance with style And in this case absolutely justified. The developer wrote Steve half of a business plan, and the answer contained all the relevant information.
Steve's oneliner totally complies with what Jonathan Ive's role model Dieter Rams states:
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Steve Jobs has really devolved into an asshole -- a fuckhead to the highest degree.
I really can't wait until there's a real competitor to Apple. Apple and Steve Jobs have become arrogant little pricks.
A preemptive fuck you to anyone that disagrees with me. Yes, that means *YOU*.
Need a tissue?
Do I get any press? No.
Do I have proof of contact, yes. (and don't ask because it gives up sensitive info on the guy)
Do I care about fanboi fame because of it? No.
Why am I writing about it? Because it's no big deal and so shouldn't this whining by some developer who doesn't have the brains to change the name now that he been successful.
Changing the name while the product is first being launched, that's being cruel. And Apple didn't do that.
Must be a slow week or something and this was all designed as a clever trick to get free advertising.
Ok, everyone now knows iPodRip is iRip. I'll remember that when some fool calls me who doesn't back up their data or clone their hard drive like everyone should be doing.
And Steve isn't a *ahole or all the other things said here in this thread, he actually helped the guy plot a easy way out of his mistake and made press for him to use to announce the name change.
There, I've tripped and said my peace.
Seriously guys? Seriously? Why the fuck does an article like this get 125 responses? Is everyone THAT gay for him?
Good grief.
They should have re-named it "iChangedMyAppName"
probably the best idea I've heard around here ever! LOL
If you're a multi-billionaire, youre allowed to dispense with it.
No. He should have Jonathan Ive design a more minimalist apostrophe, for multi-billionaires.
OH MAN THAT WAS SO COOL. STEVE IS SO HIP WITH HIS SHORT MESSAGES ON FROM HIS IPHONE!
Seriously guys? Seriously? Why the fuck does an article like this get 125 responses? Is everyone THAT gay for him?
Good grief.
Actually all the article needed was one response, the other (now) 126 responses were to others swooning and the reactions to that.
Like it's a secret subconscious Mac fanboi dream to have Steve pick them out of a lineup to design the next greatest thing or something.
I bet Ive's wishes he was back in England designing toilets for the queen instead of being in hot and smog infested SoCal.
I've been to Cupertino, you can't pay me enough to live or work there.
Or put an Apple in your logo. I'm surpised they haven't sued NewYork state yet - the big Apple. Or the Apple Bank for Savings.
Trademark protection is limited to your industry. So, Big Apple = Tourism, Apple Bank = Finance, Apple = Computers, no problem there. Apple Corps = Music Publishing, Apple = Computers, no problem if the computers don't play music (which, in the 1980's, they didn't). iPod = Computers, iPodRip = Computers, there's your problem.
Well everyone is swooning over a email from Steve Jobs and here I go and contact him personally about the glossy screen issue and he responds with a 15" matte screen MacBook Pro in like two weeks.
Awesome, thanks for getting Apple to bring back the matte option!
Don't blame them for banning it, its in their culture to. No need to be rude and slightly hypocritical about it though.
The guy who wrote the original email is a tool and fanboy with no sense of self worth. He is a hipster who failed at school so instead of trying he dropped out to go to Starbucks everyday, play with iChat and write mac software. I think it's working out for him now
No. He should have Jonathan Ive design a more minimalist apostrophe, for multi-billionaires.
If you go back and read what I wrote, it was about "you're" versus "youre" and the missing apostrophe and multi-billionaires..... oh well, whatever..... lame, I guess.
(But yours ain't too bad.)
He is a hipster who failed at school so instead of trying he dropped out to go to Starbucks everyday, play with iChat and write mac software. I think it's working out for him now
Doesn't sound that bad, really . . .
Seriously guys? Seriously? Why the **** does an article like this get 125 responses? Is everyone THAT gay for him?
Good grief.
Get a life, man. Or go away.
There were some serious posts here, among other things, on the issue of trademarks.
The fact that some of it got hijacked with some silly back-and-forth.... big deal: quite apart from the fact that it happens a lot with a couple of inveterately obtuse posters, obviously, it is not as though the opportunity cost of your own time is particularly high.
Not everything is about one-upsmanship.
So iRip guy was a little emotional... So Steve was a little terse... No big whoop, just people being people.
The comments about Steve showing that guy what-for and so on are mean-spirited. The real story here is that Steve averted a show-down; he neither instigated nor inflamed a battle. It was no big deal. I think the whole exchange was rather friendly, actually.
- What did it say?
- Change the name.
- and?
- I'm not going to disobey Steve! iRip it is!
All kneel in front of the great Steve Jobs (email)!
I think Steve should personally email all customers complaining to Apple. That'll learn 'em.
Doesn't sound that bad, really . . .
ofcoruse it doesn't
Some people have no sense of self worth and value hence they become hipsters and "crazy ones"; you know the ones that think different
When you cater to 5% of the market instead of 95% and growing, you already need to have your brain checked out
But hey, there is a sucker born every minute
Are you sure the email didn't say:-
"Sent from my prototype iPhone that you can't have yet,
nah, nah, nah nah, nah!"
...because that's what I'd have.
I think you left out the extra necessary "nah".
Steve's email is a short, concise, non-spoken means of communicating his point and recommendation.
What some people have read into it is absurd.
I mean, really. When did "concise and to the point" become "terse"?
Imagine that you received this exact message from your family, best friend or loved one.
Does it still come across as negative?
Didn't think so.....
Steve's oneliner totally complies with what Jonathan Ive's role model Dieter Rams states:
"Good design is honest"
"Good design is as little design as possible"