Steve Jobs e-mail suggests AT&T will not sell Apple iPad

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  • Reply 41 of 42
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
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    And I have no problem with Steve's offhand comments because there is no timeframe for the implementation of such features. If Apple makes an official statement (which they wouldn't -- those two pieces of functionality don't really merit a press release), one would expect a release date.



    Again, Steve has basically said nothing since he provides no timeframe. How long did it take Apple to implement cut-and-paste or background notifications on the iPhone?



    Um, I glad you have "no problem", but I wasn't really running it by you, particularly, to make sure it checked out. I'm talking about normative business practices, and things that might be in Apple's best interests-- like providing timely information in some kind of coherent way.



    Not really their long suit, I realize, but having stuff come from individual emails from the CEO just kind of highlights the tendency.
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    cvaldes1831cvaldes1831 Posts: 1,832member
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    Originally Posted by addabox View Post


    Um, I glad you have "no problem", but I wasn't really running it by you, particularly, to make sure it checked out. I'm talking about normative business practices, and things that might be in Apple's best interests-- like providing timely information in some kind of coherent way.



    Not really their long suit, I realize, but having stuff come from individual emails from the CEO just kind of highlights the tendency.



    Again, I will reiterate that I have few complaints about Apple in terms of normative business practices. If the rest of the S&P-500, Nasdaq-100, Russell-2000 companies behaved the same way as Apple and posted similar financial results, things would be in better shape.



    Apple will provide information at their own schedule. They are notoriously secretive and generally they do not comment about unreleased products. We are lucky to have the information that they have provided prior to the launch.



    Frankly, I think Apple gets more press by these mysterious e-mail responses from Steve. Do you hear of any other CEO getting this type of press by innocuous terse responses?



    He could have followed the more typical Apple standard "we don't comment about unreleased products" defense and clammed up.



    Personally, I think the whole thing is brilliant. Steve has played us all by getting to comment over a handful of words.
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