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.
Its very sad .I have the new iPhone 4 and have no problems with it.it works great.all my buddies who don’t have one are saying,oh can’t make a call can you,and crap like that.the haters are in heaven now,so I just say it works great for me and leave it at that.the fact that the so-called Mac sites are jumping all over this is very strange ,but the truth is anyone can post or say anything that can get picked up and spread like a wildfire .one site said 54% of our reader poll has iPhone problem ,then you see how many people answered the Poll .it was 10 people! Now another site picks this up and the headline of story goes like this 54% of all iPhone users have antenna issue.everybody needs to step back and realize while there can be truth in what you read ,not everything you read is the truth.
“How, pray tell, was anyone, MDN included, meant to know that this email wasn’t real. Hm?”
Simple. For bloggers that take journalism seriously, it is SOP to second and third source the authenticity if a source’s claims.
Didn’t Steve Jobs say he didn’t want the nation to descend into a nation of bloggers?
I wish I’d gotten to this story earlier this morning. I commented on this topic on several stories yesterday, writing that that email HAD to be FAKE. I correctly stated that there is no way Jobs would ever use the words, “it’s just a phone” in relationship to the iPhone. I still had people reply that they could believe it.
Anyone who didn’t smell that email as a dirty trick fake just doesn’t grasp Steve Jobs devotion to Apple and its products.
Who ever the author was HE IS RIGHT!