Phil Schiller throws out another email to calm the waters of dissent

Chauncey Dupree
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August 11, 2009
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Last week Phil Schiller, Apple's head of Marketing, sent out an email to Daring Fireball correcting the blog on a few facts related to a story about a app getting rejected from the App Store.  Now Steve Frank (developer of the popular Coda/Transmit software), who has gone on his own seperate but parallel rants about the iPhone App Store, has also gotten and email from Phil Schiller:

to summarize, he said: “we’re listening to your feedback”. Not all of my suggested solutions were viable, he said, but they were taking it all in as they continue to evolve the app store.

He went on to say that the rumors of widespread e-book app rejection I’d heard were false — that specifically one e-book app had been rejected because it facilitated iPhone-to-iPhone sharing of (potentially copyrighted) books. But that otherwise, there was no sweeping ban on e-book readers.

Since Phil is listening to his feedback, Steve is considering putting down his new Android phone and coming back to the Apple side after his week-long boycott. 

It is interesting that Apple is choosing this medium of communication rather than using the typical PR channels and/or a developer relations-type approach.  Steve Jobs often directly responds to emails as well so maybe this is the preferred means of communications..  This particular email seems to have worked on Frank.

(via TechCrunck)

 

Comments (6)

the Cappy (not verified) | August 11, 2009 - 8:26pm

It's something of an epiphany to learn that these people you read about are actually human. So often we talk and think about them as if they weren't.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 11, 2009 - 10:17pm

HELP ME 9to5mac.com!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good god, I love this blog. But often I'm embarrased by the language, style and usage by its writers. Now it's time I speak my mind.

In this post by "Chauncey Dupree", which I find must be an alias because who can't help think of the hypocrisy of the name and the language in this post when one must think of the legendary Chauncey Gardiner, but I digress.

Here Chauncey writes:

"Now Steve Frank (developer of the popular Coda/Transmit software), who has gone on his own seperate but parallel rants about the iPhone App Store, has also gotten and email from Phil Schiller..."

Good god!!! who writes "has also gotten"; not only are we dipping heavily into the passive voice, but gotten??? what the f*** is "gotten?"

[note: Phil Schiller also sent Steve Frank an email.]

Now if that is offensive enough. Let's dig deaper into Chauncey's prose. Sure, we're all guilty of the occasional typo, but here we've tipped the boat way beyond the "I'll give you that one."

Chauncey states "...gotten and email..." No. It's an e-mail.

But worse. How the hell do you spell separate? Chauncey??? Please for the sake of language???? Answer me!

And what the heck are you trying to say when describing legendary Steve Frank's efforts as "gone on his own"? What in the name of language and communication are you trying to say?

This is the single most offensive piece of journalism I've seen in years. Shame on you Chauncey and shame on 9to5 Mac for publishing such crap.

Get your act together or lose credibility and readership.

thought you should know...

nt

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 11, 2009 - 10:20pm

good god, I love this blog but often I'm embarrased by the language, style and usage by its writers. In this post by "Chauncey Dupress", which I find must be an alias because who can't help think of the hypocrisy of the legendary Chauncey Gardiner, but I digress.

Here Chauncey writers:

Now Steve Frank (developer of the popular Coda/Transmit software), who has gone on his own seperate but parallel rants about the iPhone App Store, has also gotten and email from Phil Schiller...

good god!!! who writes "has also gotten"; not only are we dipping heavily into the passive voice, but gotten??? what the f*** is "gotten?"

[note: "Phil Schiller also sent Steve Frank an email."]

Now if that is offensive enough. Let's dig deaper into Chauncey's prose. Sure, we're all guilty of the occasional typo, but here we've tipped the boat way beyond the "I'll give you that one."

Chauncey states "...gotten and email..." No. It's an e-mail.

But worse. How the hell do you spell separate? Chauncey??? Please for the sake of language???? Answer me!

And what the heck are you trying to say when describing legendary Steve Frank's efforts as "gone on his own"? What in the name of language and communication are you trying to say?

This is the single most offensive piece of journalism I've seen in years. Shame on you Chauncey and shame on 9to5 Mac for publishing such crap.

Get your act together or lose credibility and readership.

thought you should know...

nt

Jonny Evans | August 12, 2009 - 2:50am

"Here Chauncey writers:"

"writers"?

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Chauncey is one of our best news-spotters. This also is a skill. But feel free to point out our linguistic faux-pas, we lack a huge team of copy-checkers.

Thanks for your input, but please be nice to Chauncey. He's alright.

JohnnyK | August 12, 2009 - 7:30am

 Douche.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 12, 2009 - 5:04am

Or shall be say "Let's dig _deaper_ into Chauncey's prose"?
Deaper? Or diapers? Or deeper? What's it gonna be, nt?