Posted on 04/27/2005 10:24:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Bad news
I’m not saying there’s an active conspiracy against Apple out there… but perhaps there’s a conspiracy of ignorance at the San Francisco Chronicle?
For two days in a row, the Chronicle — the newspaper of record in Macworld’s hometown — has published stories with deeply confused and misleading headlines related to computer topics.
Tuesday it was a story about Microsoft’s preview of Longhorn, the laughably late new version of Windows that will be available late next year. Next year. The main headline, Opening new Windows, was okay, I guess, but the headline on the “jump” section of the story? Windows Longhorn nearing completion.
Nearing completion? If Longhorn is nearing completion, I’m nearing retirement. (That’s a joke, son — I was born in 1970.)
Today’s Chronicle headline faux pas was in the newspaper’s story about a spot of unfortunate business between Apple and Wiley Books. The headline? Apple yanks book on Jobs. The jump headline? Apple bans unauthorized biography of Jobs.
Okay, people. Let’s get this straight: the story is not that Apple has banned a book about Steve Jobs from the company’s retail stores. If you’ve ever been in one of those stores, you know that the book selections are very focused on publications of the how-to variety. Even if Steve Jobs had written his own autobiography, it’s doubtful that he’d stock copies at the checkstand like they do with Sam Walton's book at Wal-Mart.
The story is that Apple’s stores have dropped all of the technical books published by Wiley, the same publisher that’s publishing the unfortunately named iCon. The result? Apple Store visitors won’t get to read books like Andy Ihnatko’s Mac OS X Tiger Book, or Bob LeVitus’ Tiger for Dummies.
That’s the story here. Not that Apple’s not stocking a book that they would never, ever have stocked, even if Steve Jobs wrote it himself, with a cover blurb by Bill Clinton and an effusively praiseful foreword by Bill Gates.
San Francisco Chronicle readers, be warned. Read the articles, not the headlines.
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Its the SFC - expecting competence from them is like expecting John Kerry to have signed his form 180 before the election.
"The story is that Apple’s stores have dropped all of the technical books published by Wiley" because Steve Jobs wanted to punish Wiley for publishing the bio.
Here's some info from (I think) the Levy book about Jobs.
He's adopted.
One of the professional managers Apple (Markkula) brought on board to run the place once had to take Steve out into the parking lot (where a number of meetings were held in the early days of Apple) and tell him he had to go home and shower, because no one could stand his BO.
Jobs once got carotene poisoning from eating a diet almost exclusively of carrots.
He's a vegetarian, has been a fruitarian, and even tried breatharianism of a sort, fasting for weeks at a time ("After three days you feel great. After three weeks you feel fantastic.").
Jean Louis Gassee used to get tinkled off that Jobs always parked in a handicapped spot nearest the employee entrance, so he waited for Jobs to arrive one day, and told him he didn't realize that applied to the emotionally handicapped.
:')
Apple Sticks it to Wiley To Protest Jobs Biography
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1865
Apple Pulls 'For Dummies' Books To Protest Jobs Biography
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/news/1160090ANRXK.xhtml
3-Percent Market Share Bonanza
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1006
I didn't write the artivcle, Leonard. It was from MacWorld...
Thanks for making me only 25... but 1970 was about 3 years after I graduated from High School... ;^)>
"One of the professional managers Apple (Markkula) brought on board to run the place once had to take Steve out into the parking lot (where a number of meetings were held in the early days of Apple) and tell him he had to go home and shower, because no one could stand his BO."
Dayum!
Holy Cow! Swordmaker is an ancient Roman!
You would prefer "art4cle, perhaps?
Guess I better get the nail clippers out...
Not only am I fumble fingered tonite... I am numerically challenged as well... 35 ... sheesh...
As best I can guess, you're about LII. Give or take a V.
:o>
I'll be
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;^)>
And you don't look a day over XXVIIII... who'd a thunk?
But the masses are a$$es and will believe what they have been programed to get.
Well put.
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