JohnDoe1

shokk

The only thing I thought was odd was how Phil looked over at the PR guy with eyes that screamed "help!"

Quite frankly, he should have been prepared to for that question and quite easily could have deferred him over to "Matthew" to talk about iTunes. An obvious deflection of an expected question that would have saved face for all parties.

PRworks

Be a man Phil, not a girly-boy and take this rube head on.

Nothing beats a Phil Schiller interview - thinly veiled contempt for media mixed with lack of preparation.

AwesomeSausage

JGowan

Phil was nice enough to speak with this person and was actually about to answer AT LEAST his second question when the guy tries to sneak the word "Monopoly" -- anything Phil says at this point would be negative. He could get into a debate about why Apple/iPod/iTunes/iPhone is not a monopoly or he could decline to answer. Both are could be viewed negatively (which clearly here, one was.)

Actually, if you watch the video a second time, even in the moment the word "monopoly", Phil only twinges just the very slightest and to me, remains completely in control of himself.

Honestly, the day WAS about the iPhone. It was a proud day for Steve & the Gang to be across the pond to have a happy and enjoyable time bringing one of their crown jewels to another continent. Why do journalists have to piss all over that? British journalists pride themselves on being upfront and to the point at the risk of rudeness. It's not necessary. Phil didn't want to take the question and passed the person on to someone else to answer iPhone-related questions.

Honestly, if the person asking the question would've left out the word monopoly and kept it nice, I'm sure Phil would've been happy to answer the question.

JGowan

AwesomeSausage

He's still a twat, even though he has become more fashion-forward in recent times. I still have nightmares about his tight-fitting black drain-pipe dreams. Arrrrrggggghhhhh

AwesomeSausage

renaissancechambara

AwesomeSausage

The iTunes / iDevice monopoly question could have been really easily answered. I am not too sure that the PR people were afraid of the journalist, but instead may have been afraid of their own people.

Finally the UK press have a reputation for being much more challenging and probing than their US counterparts.

Bad video, yes, but I also have a small amount of sympathy for them.

Last thing is it me or does Schiller look a bit like a clean shaven Woz and what has happened to his Billy Ray Cyrus-style mullet and acid washed denim shirts?

renaissancechambara

AwesomeSausage

Apple's having much smaller market share allowed them to junk their old bloated OS in favor of OS X, a good thing. But watch the closed parts of the OS get junked up and bloated with each new release, adding features nobody's even asked for just to justify another release. Their failure to even make an effort in the server market is telling.

Amazon's DRM free music will catch up to them pretty fast I think and they will never come anywhere near a monopoly position with phones.

The three legs (PCs, iPods, iPhones) holding up the Apple stool are all getting shorter at once. I think their luck is about to run out (again).

(But Microsoft won't be the beneficiary this time, they have their own problems.)

macbeach

ResearchZilla

nathan

Conrad

Apple is a VERY controlling company. All of their products which we have ever reviewed have been purchased by us directly. Apple will not send a product out unless they can control the review process. This mentality is obviously built into their very fiber.

Ian Bell

This is ugly, the lady seems really agressive in a bad way. I am so glad I don't work for apple or in PR. Maybe It's just business.

Apple is the next MicroSoft, time to switch[back] to linux so a friend told me.

crasher

Alaska Miller

Conrad