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Maybe New York magazine had it right: Could Apple CEO Steve Jobs be getting too cocky for his own good? In an interview with USA Today, Jobs tells people who shelled out $599 for an iPhone that's now selling for $200 less, "That's technology." In other words, tough titty. It's a heck of a marketing strategy, if you can call it that. Never mind that we basically agree with Jobs, and think smug iPhone buyers got what they deserved — Jobs could certainly have delivered the message with more tact. Another sign of how out of touch Jobs has become. In the interview, he reveals that he buys songs through the iTunes Store, even when he already owns the CD, out of sheer laziness. Life is rough when you're the billionaire CEO of Apple.
Apple, iphone, ipod, itunes, steve jobs
Steve Jobs tells iPhone buyers to drop dead
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11:20 AM on Thu Sep 6 2007
By Owen Thomas
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To AAPL shareholders: the CEO is reckless. He doesn't answer to investors; he doesn't answer to customers. Get the hell out before he does something stupid. This isn't about money, anymore, it's some sort of personal vendetta. Run.
As long as the naked emperor is right, no one needs to question why he's naked. And being surrounded by more than $15,000 worth of Apple equipment and odd pieces of Apple legacy since the mid 80's, no one needs to doubt Steve.
I suspect he'll start being tactful on the issue when the shrill clamour of refunds from Apple fans with a perplexing sense of entitlement realize that prices drop, and the calls for compensation for launch buyers in the ballpark of $200 is pretty, well, stupid.
Apple's 14-day policy is more than fair.
Actually this is the right link
What people don't get is they dropped the price because it wasn't selling well, as anyone with a brain could've forecasted.
I did:
[misanthropytoday.wordpress.com]
Silly, silly comment Owen. You should have known better.
@Figaro: Considering Jobs took it all back an hour later, I don't think I was at all off in calling him out for delivering the message poorly.
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