“At Apple Inc.’s May 10 annual shareholder meeting, a series of proposals were presented for voting after which CEO Steve Jobs answered a series of questions from the audience,” Daniel Eran reports for RoughlyDrafted.
“As has been the case over the last three years, a large portion of the questions and comments from the audience were presented by environmental groups who attended to present issues related to green conscious, non-toxic manufacturing goals along with e-waste takeback and recycling programs,” Eran reports.
“Many of the other questions presented related to Apple’s stock options backdating issues,” Eran reports.
“A member of the audience questioned Jobs on Apple’s relatively low figure of reinvestment in R&D, saying that he felt the company was missing low handing fruit with new product opportunities, particularly with the delay of Leopard. Jobs responded, ‘I wish it was just a matter of writing checks. If it was just a matter of spending money, Microsoft would deliver good products,'” Eran reports.
“Another commenter asked about Apple’s plans for the iPhone going forward, prompting Jobs to pull an iPhone out of his front pocket and describe the vast potential market for mobile phones. Jobs said that compared to the music player and PC markets, the much larger mobile phone market presented a critical opportunity for the company, despite it being an entirely new venture for Apple,” Eran reports.
“Frequently making humorous asides during the question and answer session, Jobs’ made light of the the dollar salary he is assigned, quipping ‘I get 50 cents just for showing up. And 50 cents for my performance,'” Eran reports.
Full article with much more, including Eran’s questions to Jobs (One of which was: How about selling an inexpensive Tiger for developing countries and regular-priced Leopard for the rest of us?), here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Twilightmoon” and “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
@MCCFR well said how many altruistic monopolies do you know. Beside, they need some way of funding their hardware failures.
bcp de blabla pour rien dire,
you are’nt smart enough to understand french ?
Translation :
You speak a lot but you doesn’t say anything interesting
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About Daniel Eran
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Hi, I’m Daniel Eran Dilger, a tech consultant and writer in San Francisco, California. I ride a motorcycle and I like to work on art projects.
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hehehe
“whats he got in hiss pocketsesss… my precioussssss”
Hard Nard
There’s an interesting set of posts over on ZDNET where they basically claim Apple never did anything that they didn’t steal from Micro$oft. <snip>
Perhaps we should bombard them with the truth, or are they too stupid to tolerate?
Too stupid. Anyone who is that unaware of the history of computing doesn’t need to be dealt with with anything but disdain. How ironic is it that the same kind of WinPC dork who derided the Mac’s GUI as a “toy” now uses an OS from a company that took every single interface element of the Mac GUI and applied it to there own OS? How many people even know that Microsoft’s first efforts were writing software for the Mac OS, as they did not have an OS of their own?
Really?
So, Steve, what’s Apple’s excuse for screwing the pooch?
So you are just put out because the DogCow icon did not make it into OS X?
“Unless you think there’s a conspiracy with the SEC, I don’t know what to say”, Steve Jobs said.
No, there is no conspiracy with the SEC, but there MOST CERTAINLY IS A CONSPIRACY AT APPLE, ORCHESTRATED BY STEVE JOBS!
and –that conspiracy– makes Steve Jobs criminally liable on a scale orders of magnitude beyond the trifling options backdating matter.
Fred Anderson & Nancy Heinen were DEFINITELY scapegoats!!!!!
Steve Jobs, with the help of Larry Ellison and American law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, conspired together to steal the inventions of MIT engineer Irving Tsai; and it was precisely those stolen inventions that formed the core of Apple’s current redirection into consumer electronics, with the dropping of the “Computer” from “Apple Computer”.
As a monument to Ellison & Jobs “brilliant” plan and conspiracy, Apple opened its flagship NYC store right in the plaza of the Manhattan offices of Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Steve Jobs is banking the bulk of Apple’s future on stolen technologies, and in so doing, he’s committing mammoth SEC fraud, as well as perjuring himself and orchestrating a conspiracy to involve others in committing perjury and fraud in order to carry out his plan. The iPhone, portions of AppleTV, and Apple’s roadmap for future products can be seen in the Tsai patents. The iPhone is a legally INDEFENSIBLE product because it is based on stolen inventions and perjured patent filings. That is why foreign “clone-makers” have been able to replicate the iPhone without fear of legal consequences. It is also why Apple has made no comment about any of the clones, whereas in sharp contrast, was sued within 24 hours by Cisco merely for the use of the name “iPhone”.
Bill Gates is also a victim of Steve Jobs’ conspiracy. Weil Gotshal & Manges duped Bill into using Weil in 2000, both for legal work and to test the Microsoft Tablet PC. What Weil was doing was setting up Bill Gates and Microsoft so that they would be legally incapacitated from retaliating against Apple, once Apple initiated its own attack on Microsoft, spearheaded by the release of the iPhone and using the previous switch to Intel to provide the foundation for pulling Microsoft customers over to the Apple side. Bill Gates was duped into doing things he regrets, by Weil Gotshal & Manges, working all along as an agent for Steve Jobs, and his and Larry Ellison’s plan to “kill Microsoft once and for all”.
One can easily pull up the Tsai patents and find within the pages the basis for the iPhone, future Apple Tablets, and what Steve has fraudulently been referring to “other amazing products” in the pipeline. Even yesterday’s “backside touch input” patent application published by the USPTO, and filed by Apple with the outrageous filing date of January 2007, can find its genesis in the Tsai patents — which were, get this: filed by Weil Gotshal & Manges for Irving Tsai in the early 1990’s. Weil kicked Tsai out as a client in 2000-2001, lured Bill Gates in as a client to set Bill Gates up, then proceeded to conspire with Ellison and Steve Jobs to “screw Bill Gates” using the stolen Tsai inventions which both Bill and Steve Jobs were fascinated with.
Bash Bil Gates. Bash Microsoft, if you like. But Bill gates is a victim of probably the largest corporate crime of the past 50 years — orchestrated by Steve Jobs, conveniently former Apple Board member Larry Ellison, and Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Fred Anderson and Nancy are SCAPEGOATS!!!
YES, there is a conspiracy, Steve (Jobs), as your subconscious mind is quick to point out. But no, it does not involve the SEC, so in that regard you are telling the truth. That may be the only truth you’ve told the SEC, your shareholders, and worst of all you falsely adoring public.
“Unless you think there’s a conspiracy with the SEC, I don’t know what to say”, Steve Jobs said.
No, there is no conspiracy with the SEC, but there MOST CERTAINLY IS A CONSPIRACY AT APPLE, ORCHESTRATED BY STEVE JOBS!
and –that conspiracy– makes Steve Jobs criminally liable on a scale orders of magnitude beyond the trifling options backdating matter.
Fred Anderson & Nancy Heinen were DEFINITELY scapegoats!!!!!
Steve Jobs, with the help of Larry Ellison and American law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, conspired together to steal the inventions of MIT engineer Irving Tsai; and it was precisely those stolen inventions that formed the core of Apple’s current redirection into consumer electronics, with the dropping of the “Computer” from “Apple Computer”.
As a monument to Ellison & Jobs “brilliant” plan and conspiracy, Apple opened its flagship NYC store right in the plaza of the Manhattan offices of Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Steve Jobs is banking the bulk of Apple’s future on stolen technologies, and in so doing, he’s committing mammoth SEC fraud, as well as perjuring himself and orchestrating a conspiracy to involve others in committing perjury and fraud in order to carry out his plan. The iPhone, portions of AppleTV, and Apple’s roadmap for future products can be seen in the Tsai patents. The iPhone is a legally INDEFENSIBLE product because it is based on stolen inventions and perjured patent filings. That is why foreign “clone-makers” have been able to replicate the iPhone without fear of legal consequences. It is also why Apple has made no comment about any of the clones, whereas in sharp contrast, was sued within 24 hours by Cisco merely for the use of the name “iPhone”.
Bill Gates is also a victim of Steve Jobs’ conspiracy. Weil Gotshal & Manges duped Bill into using Weil in 2000, both for legal work and to test the Microsoft Tablet PC. What Weil was doing was setting up Bill Gates and Microsoft so that they would be legally incapacitated from retaliating against Apple, once Apple initiated its own attack on Microsoft, spearheaded by the release of the iPhone and using the previous switch to Intel to provide the foundation for pulling Microsoft customers over to the Apple side. Bill Gates was duped into doing things he regrets, by Weil Gotshal & Manges, working all along as an agent for Steve Jobs, and his and Larry Ellison’s plan to “kill Microsoft once and for all”.
One can easily pull up the Tsai patents and find within the pages the basis for the iPhone, future Apple Tablets, and what Steve has fraudulently been referring to “other amazing products” in the pipeline. Even yesterday’s “backside touch input” patent application published by the USPTO, and filed by Apple with the outrageous filing date of January 2007, can find its genesis in the Tsai patents — which were, get this: filed by Weil Gotshal & Manges for Irving Tsai in the early 1990’s. Weil kicked Tsai out as a client in 2000-2001, lured Bill Gates in as a client to set Bill Gates up, then proceeded to conspire with Ellison and Steve Jobs to “screw Bill Gates” using the stolen Tsai inventions which both Bill and Steve Jobs were fascinated with.
Bash Bil Gates. Bash Microsoft, if you like. But Bill gates is a victim of probably the largest corporate crime of the past 50 years — orchestrated by Steve Jobs, conveniently former Apple Board member Larry Ellison, and Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Fred Anderson and Nancy are SCAPEGOATS!!!
YES, there is a conspiracy, Steve (Jobs), as your subconscious mind is quick to point out. But no, it does not involve the SEC, so in that regard you are telling the truth. That may be the only truth you’ve told the SEC, your shareholders, and worst of all you falsely adoring public.
“Unless you think there’s a conspiracy with the SEC, I don’t know what to say”, Steve Jobs said.
No, there is no conspiracy with the SEC, but there MOST CERTAINLY IS A CONSPIRACY AT APPLE, ORCHESTRATED BY STEVE JOBS!
and –that conspiracy– makes Steve Jobs criminally liable on a scale orders of magnitude beyond the trifling options backdating matter.
Fred Anderson & Nancy Heinen were DEFINITELY scapegoats!!!!!
Steve Jobs, with the help of Larry Ellison and American law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, conspired together to steal the inventions of MIT engineer Irving Tsai; and it was precisely those stolen inventions that formed the core of Apple’s current redirection into consumer electronics, with the dropping of the “Computer” from “Apple Computer”.
As a monument to Ellison & Jobs “brilliant” plan and conspiracy, Apple opened its flagship NYC store right in the plaza of the Manhattan offices of Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Steve Jobs is banking the bulk of Apple’s future on stolen technologies, and in so doing, he’s committing mammoth SEC fraud, as well as perjuring himself and orchestrating a conspiracy to involve others in committing perjury and fraud in order to carry out his plan. The iPhone, portions of AppleTV, and Apple’s roadmap for future products can be seen in the Tsai patents. The iPhone is a legally INDEFENSIBLE product because it is based on stolen inventions and perjured patent filings. That is why foreign “clone-makers” have been able to replicate the iPhone without fear of legal consequences. It is also why Apple has made no comment about any of the clones, whereas in sharp contrast, was sued within 24 hours by Cisco merely for the use of the name “iPhone”.
Bill Gates is also a victim of Steve Jobs’ conspiracy. Weil Gotshal & Manges duped Bill into using Weil in 2000, both for legal work and to test the Microsoft Tablet PC. What Weil was doing was setting up Bill Gates and Microsoft so that they would be legally incapacitated from retaliating against Apple, once Apple initiated its own attack on Microsoft, spearheaded by the release of the iPhone and using the previous switch to Intel to provide the foundation for pulling Microsoft customers over to the Apple side. Bill Gates was duped into doing things he regrets, by Weil Gotshal & Manges, working all along as an agent for Steve Jobs, and his and Larry Ellison’s plan to “kill Microsoft once and for all”.
One can easily pull up the Tsai patents and find within the pages the basis for the iPhone, future Apple Tablets, and what Steve has fraudulently been referring to “other amazing products” in the pipeline. Even yesterday’s “backside touch input” patent application published by the USPTO, and filed by Apple with the outrageous filing date of January 2007, can find its genesis in the Tsai patents — which were, get this: filed by Weil Gotshal & Manges for Irving Tsai in the early 1990’s. Weil kicked Tsai out as a client in 2000-2001, lured Bill Gates in as a client to set Bill Gates up, then proceeded to conspire with Ellison and Steve Jobs to “screw Bill Gates” using the stolen Tsai inventions which both Bill and Steve Jobs were fascinated with.
Bash Bil Gates. Bash Microsoft, if you like. But Bill gates is a victim of probably the largest corporate crime of the past 50 years — orchestrated by Steve Jobs, conveniently former Apple Board member Larry Ellison, and Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Fred Anderson and Nancy are SCAPEGOATS!!!
YES, there is a conspiracy, Steve (Jobs), as your subconscious mind is quick to point out. But no, it does not involve the SEC, so in that regard you are telling the truth. That may be the only truth you’ve told the SEC, your shareholders, and worst of all you falsely adoring public.
“Unless you think there’s a conspiracy with the SEC, I don’t know what to say”, Steve Jobs said.
No, there is no conspiracy with the SEC, but there MOST CERTAINLY IS A CONSPIRACY AT APPLE, ORCHESTRATED BY STEVE JOBS!
and –that conspiracy– makes Steve Jobs criminally liable on a scale orders of magnitude beyond the trifling options backdating matter.
Fred Anderson & Nancy Heinen were DEFINITELY scapegoats!!!!!
Steve Jobs, with the help of Larry Ellison and American law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, conspired together to steal the inventions of MIT engineer Irving Tsai; and it was precisely those stolen inventions that formed the core of Apple’s current redirection into consumer electronics, with the dropping of the “Computer” from “Apple Computer”.
As a monument to Ellison & Jobs “brilliant” plan and conspiracy, Apple opened its flagship NYC store right in the plaza of the Manhattan offices of Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Steve Jobs is banking the bulk of Apple’s future on stolen technologies, and in so doing, he’s committing mammoth SEC fraud, as well as perjuring himself and orchestrating a conspiracy to involve others in committing perjury and fraud in order to carry out his plan. The iPhone, portions of AppleTV, and Apple’s roadmap for future products can be seen in the Tsai patents. The iPhone is a legally INDEFENSIBLE product because it is based on stolen inventions and perjured patent filings. That is why foreign “clone-makers” have been able to replicate the iPhone without fear of legal consequences. It is also why Apple has made no comment about any of the clones, whereas in sharp contrast, was sued within 24 hours by Cisco merely for the use of the name “iPhone”.
Bill Gates is also a victim of Steve Jobs’ conspiracy. Weil Gotshal & Manges duped Bill into using Weil in 2000, both for legal work and to test the Microsoft Tablet PC. What Weil was doing was setting up Bill Gates and Microsoft so that they would be legally incapacitated from retaliating against Apple, once Apple initiated its own attack on Microsoft, spearheaded by the release of the iPhone and using the previous switch to Intel to provide the foundation for pulling Microsoft customers over to the Apple side. Bill Gates was duped into doing things he regrets, by Weil Gotshal & Manges, working all along as an agent for Steve Jobs, and his and Larry Ellison’s plan to “kill Microsoft once and for all”.
One can easily pull up the Tsai patents and find within the pages the basis for the iPhone, future Apple Tablets, and what Steve has fraudulently been referring to “other amazing products” in the pipeline. Even yesterday’s “backside touch input” patent application published by the USPTO, and filed by Apple with the outrageous filing date of January 2007, can find its genesis in the Tsai patents — which were, get this: filed by Weil Gotshal & Manges for Irving Tsai in the early 1990’s. Weil kicked Tsai out as a client in 2000-2001, lured Bill Gates in as a client to set Bill Gates up, then proceeded to conspire with Ellison and Steve Jobs to “screw Bill Gates” using the stolen Tsai inventions which both Bill and Steve Jobs were fascinated with.
Bash Bil Gates. Bash Microsoft, if you like. But Bill gates is a victim of probably the largest corporate crime of the past 50 years — orchestrated by Steve Jobs, conveniently former Apple Board member Larry Ellison, and Weil Gotshal & Manges.
Fred Anderson and Nancy are SCAPEGOATS!!!
YES, there is a conspiracy, Steve (Jobs), as your subconscious mind is quick to point out. But no, it does not involve the SEC, so in that regard you are telling the truth. That may be the only truth you’ve told the SEC, your shareholders, and worst of all you falsely adoring public.
to Fred & Nancy are scapegoats:
Now them are very hurting words! But, if you say they are true then I guess it must be so.
This whole tin foil hat conspiracy about Apple “stealing” patents from this Irving Tsai is interesting but even if true:
1. Hardly qualifies as “the largest corporate crime in the past 50 years” sorry that’s just laugable hyperbole, at worst it’s screwing over an inventor who came up with patents? If so he can sue and collect his money.
2. Legal and moral issues aside, if Apple had not created this based on said patents of whatever origin, it’s doubtful there is another company that could have taken those ideas and created as rich of a product as the iPhone. It involves far more than some touch screen patents or even the hardware itself:
* support network of retail stores, for support and training.
* sophisticated full desktop operating system.
* industry leading developer tools and frameworks.
* Integration with media on PC and successful online media distribution model.
* 30 years of industry leading user interface design.
* 30 years of leading hardware design.
I could go on, but the iPhone is far more than just a few patents which may or may not have been borrowed/copied/stolen from some Tsai character. And by the way if he didn’t file his amazing inventions and got screwed by this fact I only have partial sympathy for him, if he did file proper patents he should be covered.
Some simple facts of life: the world of business isn’t pretty, if you have great ideas ensure that you and not someone else will be rewarded for using those ideas.
I read this…
That is why foreign “clone-makers” have been able to replicate the iPhone without fear of legal consequences.
…and I stopped reading. Any idiot can cut and paste some icons onto a block of acrylic and call it a competitor to the iPhone. If you think icons are the heart and soul of the iPhones patented technologies, you are, pardon my French, a fucking idiot.