MacDailyNews Take: We were waiting for this to happen. It was only a matter of time. Email is not even close to being the best way for Steve Jobs to communicate with customers.
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “The conversation was published Thursday by The Boy Genius Report and linked to by more than three dozen other sites.”
“Asked on the record whether Steve Jobs was the author of any of these statements, a top Apple spokesman emphatically denied it,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “Separately, AppleInsider is reporting that a similar exchange was shopped to them two days earlier by a Virginia man who offered to sell it to them for an unspecified amount of money.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Again, as we’ve already done in the original article, even though we questioned whether the email was really from Steve Jobs and based our Take on the assumption that it was, we publicly apologize to Apple CEO Steve Jobs while imploring him to please stop using email to communicate with customers and instead use an official Apple blog so everyone can trust that we are actually reading his words.
Another example of great reporting. Way to do research before printing BGR.
This boy is a genius in his own mind.
I knew that didn’t sound very Steve like
The funny thing is that BGR most
likely paid for the bogus scoop.
I thought Boy Genius admitted it made a mistake and this quote came from “Tom” an Apple representative, because with the emails cycling around in this exchange, who said what became confused.
I absolutely [color-red]HATE[/color] MacDailyNews for sticking up for Apple customers over Apple Inc.
iPhone 4 launched World wide in 8 countries and immediately sold out – Same phone.
ZERO WHINING…No complaints.
Most US users and the whole world understand the nature of the beast and have no problem once they use the phone despite a low signal indication which does not render the phone useless.
Anyone ever question ATT’s great network being a cause of weak signal and dropped calls and NOT iPhone4s antenna?
For 3 years everyone, especially MDN has complained about dropped calls and now that ATT has taken on a lot of extra iPad and new iPhone 4 traffic, does it not seem plausible that their equipment is under extra loads?
Funny how Apple, time after time, holds itself to higher standards than the scum that make up the user base of the competition, yet MDN couldn’t give SJ the benefit of the doubt.
Even your apology sucks and is half-assed. “Even though we questioned?”
Yeah right! You need to have a story with the HEADLINE, “Steve, we were wrong to jump to conclusions. We apologize!”
Not hide your so-called apology in a conditional MDN Take that essentially ends up saying, “It’s not our fault!”
MDN Magic Word: faith, or what MDN lacked when giving into the slimy attacks by Fandroids.
Dear MDN: Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it.
MDN:
Steve Jack editorials and the less frequent, but hilarious, witty, cutting MDN takes are priceless. They are in my opinion, the bar you set for all your longtime readers.
Fanning the political flames attracts a loud obnoxious and unneeded element (that we see all to much, everywhere these days) that’s chasing away people who dig you and add lots of value to your franchise. It’s hurting your prestige and detracting from the essence of your principals and mission, as I take it to be after reading Jacks pieces.
You set the bar – Stick with it.
I’m not understanding the venom towards MDN.
Boy Genius fscked up. How the hell was MDN supposed to “research” that? What Boy Genius published looked like every other “Steve Jobs email” ever published.
MDN’s article clearly was quoting and linked to Boy Genius and the other publication that covered the Boy Genius story.
MDN reacted as if the email was truly from Jobs and they had no reason to think otherwise.
Furthermore, MDN’s Take was strongly on behalf of Apple customers over Apple Inc. and for that, I would think, MDN should be commended, not spat upon.
If I’m missing something here, please enlighten me.
Way to fan the flames. Nice slander job. Apology not good enough. Free bumpers for all your readers you intentionally mislead.
David Tobar,
Look up “slander.” You obviously don’t know what the word means. What are you, twelve?
@journo
You got it right!
Journo:
Most Apple customers are happy…
as much as i liked reading mdn takes its getting to a point where im about to delete the app. If the company apple and ceo have been doing the right thing for decades, and we love them for just that and EVEN if it was true the i4 is flawed .. i think its of gentlmen to stfu until apple comes up with a solution, you are starting to act like the rest of the click whores mdn.. I hope this changes cause most of your takes are great.
MDN, don’t salt the crow too much before you roast and eat it…..remember your blood pressure…..
And leave the reactionary / facts-un-checked ‘journalism’ to the Fox News people and their ilk.
Are vying for the title “Gizmodo 2”, MDN?
Slander
–noun
1. defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
2. a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
3. Law. defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter slander against; defame.
–verb (used without object)
5. to utter or circulate slander.
Love wus boy who needs to hide behind fake names. I’m 11 by the way.
There’s no fix for stupid and just about all of this overblown flawed antenna crap is just plain stupid. If you have an iPhone that isn’t working the way you expected it to take it back and get your money back and STFU! If you don’t want to take it back, learn to use it the way it works and STFU!
It’s a damn tech toy, not the center of your universe; if it IS the center of your universe, you are one sick puppy.
Steve Jobs can use email to communicate with customers if he wants.
MDN and others should check info/rumours before they comment.
clinicaltechmaster,
There’s no way to adequately check or prove that emails are really from Steve Jobs. He will have to stop doing the email thing or the fakes will keep on coming.
Whoa, whoa there guys:
I’m with MDN for the long haul.
Nice to witness their transparency with all this stuff coming over the transom.
Apple is far from capsizing, Steve remains captain – and iPhone rules the waves.
Remember, it’s the rats that leave a ship first when they think it’s sinking.
Not to mention all the call for free bumpers is a cynical move by Gizmodo to force it to do it’s bidding.
Gizmodo MO is EXTORTION. They lost access to Apple because of their felony behavior, now they want to exert their blogger piss power by flaming a virtual nonissue and making it seem like it’s a critical flaw upon which the fate of Apple hangs.
And MDN is licking it up, hook, line and sinker by reinforcing this myth that the iPhone 4 users can’t make phone calls.
FACT: the antenna may attenuate when held in certain ways BUT it still FAR OUTPERFORMS the antennas of other phones!
I didn’t think that sounded like Steve. That explains why.