Steve Jobs reportedly goes ballistic over troll tweet
Added 2010-02-08, 03:09 PM | 24 Replies
"This tweet sent from an iPad. Does it look cool?"
That's all it took for Steve Jobs to reportedly snap and tear into The Wall Street Journal's online executive editor at a recent iPad "show-and-tell" outing for the media industry.
The tweet was quickly deleted, and Alan Murray, the Journal editor in question, declined to comment beyond saying that he "would love to talk about this, but can't."
This is profound. Why is nobody scrutinizing this? Apple has effectively censored the editor of a major news operation.
It's no secret that Apple and Steve Jobs in particular are paranoid over any news coverage of their company, adverse or otherwise, so it's unfortunate that the conflict of interest issues surrounding the iPad aren't being examined more in-depth.
Jobs' apparently successful tantrum is an occurrence that should give pause to news organizations considering support of a proprietary news-reading device made by the very same company that will stop at nothing to censor them.
After all, if Apple controlled the news, we would likely never have known about the plights of children scarred for life by their exploding iPods. Or the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Chinese iPhone engineer Sun Dan-yong.
Jobs reportedly "(painted) a utopian picture of (a) happy future world awash in iPads". If freedom of the press counts for anything any more, let's hope the only place awash with iPads is the landfill.
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Status as of 10:14 AM: Apple TOLD | Microsoft TOLD | AT&T TOLD | Intel TOLD | AMD TOLD | Nvidia NOT TOLD
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:30 No.6177
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The shitfest surround the iPad-hype profoundly showed, how the media lets every bit of objective distance fall, just because it helps their fandom. Compare it to the "embedded journalist"-fad of the early Iraq-war, same thing. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:31 No.6178
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Last time Jobs was this butthurt he got kicked out of Apple. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:35 No.6179
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#1 Steve acts like a child. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:37 No.6180
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apple really scares me |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:53 No.6181
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>>6180 |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:54 No.6182
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It's a sad day when Microsoft is the world's best hope for mobile devices without a hidden agenda. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:55 No.6183
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I wish I could post pictures. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:56 No.6184
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>>6183 |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:56 No.6185
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steve: u mad? |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)16:57 No.6186
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Apple - Enemy of everyone's freedom, in every form of media. |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)17:58 No.6187
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lol streisand effect |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)19:37 No.6189
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Thou mad, Steve, thou mad? |
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Anonymous 02/08/10(Mon)20:30 No.6190
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excellent. |
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Anonymous 02/09/10(Tue)02:20 No.6193
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This is why I will never fucking TOUCH an iPhone |
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Anonymous 02/09/10(Tue)10:01 No.6194
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Are you frustrated? |
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Anonymous 02/09/10(Tue)10:07 No.6195
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>>6194 |
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Marty Chang 02/09/10(Tue)11:32 No.6196
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"Well let's see: Murray's a fucking idiot. You don't go to an invite only event to view a new piece of technology from Apple and then tweet on something you were probably asked NOT to use for that purpose. Some people are not only stupid they're part of the press. OUCH. |
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Anonymous 02/09/10(Tue)13:22 No.6197
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>>6196 |
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sarge 02/09/10(Tue)15:57 No.6198
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>>6196 |
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sarge 02/09/10(Tue)15:57 No.6199
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Anonymous 02/10/10(Wed)13:14 No.6200
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Steve, he mad. |
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Anonymous 02/13/10(Sat)14:37 No.6251
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Someone explain why it's a troll tweet? I don't see anything about it, offensive or not, that could drive Steve Jobs ballistic. |
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Anonymous 02/14/10(Sun)22:34 No.6263
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http://en.windows7sins.org/ |
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Anonymous 05/05/10(Wed)17:44 No.7565
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