Apple Appoints Al Gore to B.O.D

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  • Reply 41 of 56
    Eh, what the hell. In the spirit of jest, I think George W. Bush would make a good spokesperson for Apple:



    "Hey, even an idiot like me can use it!"







    or: "Invade Iraq on a Mac!"



    You decide.
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  • Reply 42 of 56
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    It seems Al is working already, getting that iPod update out quickly!
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  • Reply 43 of 56
    bartobarto Posts: 2,246member
    At least Al Gore got elected to something



    ?Steve and his team have done an incredible job in making Apple once again the very best in the world,? said former Vice President Al Gore. ?I have been particularly impressed with the new Mac OS X operating system and the company?s commitment to the open source movement. And I am especially looking forward to working with and learning from the great board members who have guided this legendary company?s inspiring resurgence.?



    That's pretty funny stuff coming from a former vice president. Apple will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!



    Barto
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  • Reply 44 of 56
    Quote:

    Originally posted by cowerd

    No Vint Cerf no internet. No TB Lee no Mosaic. Anyways Andreesen was only one member of the Mosaic team.



    No actually, the National Science Foundation and DARPA were the instuments that organized the net.



    Vint Cerf (ICANN) took over a very well established network environment from them.



    Saying Anyways Andreesen was just a member is like saying GWB is just a member of the 43rd Presidency.
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  • Reply 45 of 56
    jaredjared Posts: 639member
    I give a lot more credit to Al Gore then I do to Bill Gates.



    Bill Gates despises the open source movement.



    Al Gore should make some public comments about how he supports Apple on the open source move and how it could only do good and Bill Gates will get red in the face.



    I think most people will take Gore more seriously then Gates.
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  • Reply 46 of 56
    if you all think it is embarrasing to have gore on the BOD of your favorite fruit company, try to imagine what an embarrasment it was to have Jesse "the dummass" Ventura running your state. The only good things about his term were the jokes.
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  • Reply 47 of 56
    Maybe Al will be in a switch ad. Now would that be cool.



    The ad can start by him saying, "Ever been screwed in over by your competitor? I sure have. I lost an election because some ballets were not counted and I had to turn to my trusted friend. Actually one of my good friends, my iMac. He was there for me while I cried, he was there for me when I yelled at the top of my *ucking lungs. He was there. He kept me going because it never froze and I never saw a blue screen. Hey, I even got to edit some pictures of me a Bill in iPhoto and I made a CD for Tipper in iTunes. Hell, that Mac is the only thing that kept me going. Imagine what I would have turned out like if I owned a PC, I sure wouldn't have a Board job with Apple now would I. My name is Al, and I am still a mess.
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  • Reply 48 of 56
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    I... uh. this..



    This is weird.



    I'm starting to question what is real in the world. There's no way in the world that I could have woken up this morning and thought to myself "Hmmmm, maybe Al Gore will be elected to Apple's Board of directors today. It's just, you know, a completely random event. Hey, look, a bird...."
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  • Reply 49 of 56
    surfratsurfrat Posts: 341member
    "Lock Box"
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  • Reply 50 of 56
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by alcimedes

    lol, that's kinda cool actually, even though i'm no fan of Gore's.



    isn't GW a Mac user too? funny how that works.




    yup, and so is clinton... it was on that "mac myths" page http://www.apple.com/myths/



    Quote:

    Or if you are President of the United States (our two most recent presidents, a Democrat and a Republican, both use Macs).



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  • Reply 51 of 56
    He's not going to be doing anything for Apple. He probably won't even show up at the board meetings, except maybe once to say "Hi, I'm Al Gore."



    Jobs is an ultra-liberal. Gore is very likely in need of money (hey, who isn't?).



    SJ: "No, Al, I can't lend you a million bucks, sorry. Hmmm... wait, I have an idea."
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  • Reply 52 of 56
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Uh, if you don't attend the majority of the board meetings you get thrown off the board. Them's the rules.



    I can see why Gore was brought on board (so to speak). He was instrumental in making the Internet what it is today (which is not really a compliment — I hated the "Information Superhighway" from the day I first read about it), and Apple engineers have said that they are working to bring the Internet back toward what it was originally envisioned to be, rather than an insufficiently redundant, overly centralized, top-down turf war fought by variously bankrupt, corrupt and monopolistic companies. AirPort and Rendezvous are crucial steps in this direction.



    The new, transparent, bottom-up Internet looks much more promising, and I can understand why Gore would be interested in being part of it. Even if I don't like what he did the first time, he certainly has enough knowledge and enough research under his belt to have earned the respect of the 'net's principle architects. He brings a lot of important contacts with him, as well.



    However, I'd prefer him in a more advisory or supporting role. I think Apple's engineers are doing a bang-up job of redefining how networking is done, and subversively reintroducing the world to AppleTalk.
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  • Reply 53 of 56
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    All of you guys doing imitations of what Al Gore might say should be embarrassed with yourselves.



    I mean, you're not even doing the lisssp when you write his dialogue. Get it right!
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  • Reply 54 of 56
    flounderflounder Posts: 2,674member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ThunderPoit

    if you all think it is embarrasing to have gore on the BOD of your favorite fruit company, try to imagine what an embarrasment it was to have Jesse "the dummass" Ventura running your state. The only good things about his term were the jokes.



    ahhhh, remember his radio show on KFAN before he was govenor?

    "When I younger, if you wanted to get drunk, you drank mad dog 20/20!

    20 percent wine, 20 percent vodka....."
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  • Reply 55 of 56
    jante99jante99 Posts: 539member
    They must have brought Al Gore to Apple to develop a stronger lock box for shipping developers early seeds of 970 Power Macs.
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  • Reply 56 of 56
    idudeidude Posts: 352member
    It's interesting to hear all the different perspectives on this issue. From reading various articles, I''ve decided that nothing bad can come from this. Al Gore certainly brings a lot of experiences to the table that no one on the board has ever had before, which will be good. He is a very well known person (More so than Steve Jobs), but that could backfire because of his political background. If nothing else, we can all get some good laughs out of it.
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