The first rule of iPad is: you do not talk about iPad
According to Valleywag, Steve Jobs laid into The Wall St. Journal's online executive editor Alan Murray who sent out a simple tweet from his loaner iPad. The reporter, tail between legs, deleted the tweet and gave the following statement:
I will say that Apple's general paranoia about news coverage is truly extraordinary— but that's not telling you anything you didn't already know.
True.
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now everyone is going to be bitter that they don't have one. sounds like a dickhead move on the reporters part. if apple is kind enough to give them an ipad you'd think they'd have enough respect to follow their wishes regarding it.
I've read this story now on several blogs within the last 15 minutes. Most commenters think Jobs is an ass for reacting to a "simple tweet." WHAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THOUGH IS THE FOLLOWING: How can anyone who is invited to a special presentation, and provided with a really super, and secret new product to try out on their own, WITH THE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS TO KEEP THEIR FU$$ING MOUTH SHUT AS A CONDITION, laid out in detail at the outset, in no uncertain terms, complain about Apple or Jobs being paranoid. What nerve! Apple succeeds because of its design, engineering, marketing, and thoughtful planning, which include KEEPING SECRETS that they deem necessary. What is so complicated about that?
YOU SHOULD USE MOAR CAPS!!!!!!
The risk that someone will tell has to be calculated. Leaks are useful, even if unwanted.
I smell jobs crack on the noses of these commenters for shizzle
Hmm, could it be that Apple's still working out the paperwork with the FCC and doesn't want to to get popped with a fine for using a non-approved product outside of the required "testing" mode? Apple already got a tongue lashing from the FCC about them and AT&T blocking VoIP. Messing with and thumbing their nose at MS is one thing but blowing off the FCC is a great way to have approval paperwork get "lost" in government red tape and not being able to start selling the product when they said they would.
Hmm, could it be that Apple's still working out the paperwork with the FCC and doesn't want to to get popped with a fine for using a non-approved product outside of the required "testing" mode? Apple already got a tongue lashing from the FCC about them and AT&T blocking VoIP. Messing with and thumbing their nose at MS is one thing but blowing off the FCC is a great way to have approval paperwork get "lost" in government red tape and not being able to start selling the product when they said they would.
What about all the iPads used at the event?
There are going to be some people who would try to steal it if they had the chance and knew where the iPad was out in public.
How would a tweet sent from an iPad look cooler than a tweet sent from anything else?
Looks like the WSJ just got bumped off the "leak" list. LOL.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-JOBS.
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