Apple letter breaks little girl's heart

MacNN ^ | 04/17/2006

[Panerai]

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

"She was very upset, and kinda threw the letter up in the air and ran in her room and slammed her door," the girl's mother told CBS 5 News.

She was expecting a job offer...and to be a dot.com millionaire by 12.

[Cincinatus]

"My lawyers will SUE you, my little pretty! And your little DOG too!!"

[rellimpank]

--I suppose the mother will be filing a lawsuit--

[brytlea]

I suggest a class action lawsuit by all people who have had their feelings hurt by Apple's policy!
susie

[Jeff Head]

Sounds like the parents missed a wonderful opportunity to teach their daughter about the realities of the business world and the power of the consumer in the free market...instead, choosing to foster a victim attitude.

Shattered her heart indeed...if her heart is this easily "shattered" then, IMHO, the parents need to spend a lot more time instilling in her what is really valuable in this life, or at the very least recognize that what occurred here was not any kind of "earth shattering" event.

[ClearCase_guy]

I've heard of seventh-grade assignments: "If you were advising Douglas MacArthur on how to win the Korean War, what would you tell him?"

Young children have little of value to say on some topics. Allowing them to go through life thinking that Generals and CEOs are eagerly waiting to hear what they think, is not doing the children any favors.

Some kids have too much self-esteem. Reality smacks them in the face and they fall apart.

[KittyKares]

I suppose the mother will be filing a lawsuit

Well, they do have deep pockets.

[Incorrigible]

Steve Jobs doesn't care about the children!

[Hatteras]

So.....? Their response to her idea?

Uhhhh...... yeah, well weeeeeee.... uhhhh.....already came up with that idea, yeah, THAT'S the ticket!

[bnelson44]

Let kids have their dreams.

[Mathews]

Well, good idea I think. I'd like to know the lyrics to the songs too.

Only thing is, because we've been raising a bunch of pansies who have not had their "self-esteem" endangered over the past twenty years, I'm kinda fearful about where our county is going. I mean if little Susie and little Timmy can't handle a little bad news... where does that leave the rest of us?

[ExcursionGuy84]

She was expecting a job offer...and to be a dot.com millionaire by 12.

Thats a pretty tall exaggeration, PBRSTREETGANG.

It said that she wanted on her iPOD Nano:

...song lyrics so listeners can sing along to their tunes

[dinoparty]

I assume this policy is to prevent accusations that Apple is using an idea from an unsolcited customer suggestion.

Still, the P.R. person could have seen this letter as an opportunity instead of a threat.

[theFIRMbss]

>"She was very upset, and kinda threw the letter up in the air and ran in her room and slammed her door," the girl's mother told CBS 5 News

Our youth -- the future
John McCain's in training for
their temper tantrums . . .

[martin_fierro]

[bahblahbah]

I would have suggested never releases the Ipod Nano. What a POS that thing is.

[OB1kNOb]

"She was very upset, and kinda threw the letter up in the air and ran in her room and slammed her door,"

I work with several people in my office who are just like that.

[dinoparty]

oops, I didn't read the article obviously, as it states the reason in black and white. sorry.