Gawker bloggers certainly know how to push Jobs’ buttons.
This time it’s actually the Gawker blog (rather than subsidiary Gizmodo) and its Contributing Editor Ryan Tate - although Tate didn’t disclose himself as a Gawker blogger till later on in the thread.
On Friday night, after watching one of the company’s new ads promoting the iPad as “revolutionary”, Tate decided to sit down with a cocktail (probably a few) and email Jobs into explaining just how revolutionary a closed platform could be.
A question about “freedom” and a reference to Bob Dylan (famously Jobs is a big fan) turned into a lengthy email thread and much of the same Jobs stubborness with a disappointing ending because well, pulling the “what have you done that’s so great” card is just…cheap.
Besides, Jobs should know better than to get into a discussion with a blogger (not that he knew he was one) late on a Friday night. Wonder what the Apple board would make of this.
Man…the last email was the one that pushes the edge for me. Sure, I can see Steve being a bit PO’d. But really, belittling someone goes a bit too far. Regardless of what was thrown at him, it’s his job to not throw it back.
yeah, way to play it cool.
I wouldn’t bet on it that Steve himself wrote this stuff.
They occasionally go low Gawker but I very much doubt that low.
I found it really interesting that Steve’s voice in these e-mails was identical to Tate’s voice. And, come on, really? He gets drunk and Steve sounds like he’s already drunk?
Totally fake.
I’m betting a bottle of champagne that this is a made up conversation. It is just too easy to fake Steve Jobs.
i just dont think that they’d go that low to completely fabricate an entire conversation.
Ha, “no one kicked in any doors. You’re believing a lot of erroneous blogger reports”
I agree that this is made up conversation
If this is real, then surely Steve Jobs can read and type fast. :-)
I’ve always heard, “If you want it done right, do it yourself!” I say, “Stop criticizing and do it yourself, Ryan!”
Real or not, I think Steve is actually the guy looking forward, not feeling hindered by bitterness and things from the past. This Ryan guy is just anal-ising Apple/Jobs’ strategy as a revenge in stead of a completely new movement away from PC’s as we know them (which is indeed a revolution, and a welcome one).
And only at the end, Steve is making a personal attack, while Ryan opened fire with a personal touch…
all apple products are status symbol, there are devices out there that are decades above any apple product but without that symbol they just dont get the hype. i remember when i first used an iPod, sure it looked prettier than my flash mp3 player but at least it had radio and voice recording.
i can only say the app store is the best thing apple has ever done. that is smart rather than revolutionary
pick apart steve jobs’s email, see that he states his company isn’t pushing people into doing things but is doing things right by it’s users.
Fake.
This email is bollocks and I don’t buy this guys story for one minute. Steve Jobs sitting around Friday night writing to this idiot, I have some property in Florida if anyone wants to buy it. Fake and shameless promotion.
not a real conversation