It ’s a week for slapping people on the radiocarpal joint — or other mixed body portion — as misbehavior runs rearing ! First , serial saccade Michael Arrington has some misdirected complaints . That ’s not strange , but Steve Jobs getting into a fracas with a pushy college student ? Timeouts for both of you ! lastly , incarnate IT shops making excuses to avoid deploy iPhones ? Who sawthatcoming ?
Define “dropped”
Techcrunch ’s Michael Arrington , who famouslyquit the iPhonelast year , has given it another try and say heforgot how bad it is .
Sure you did , Michael .
Arrington ’s main boeuf with the iPhone stay the same : drop calls . Miraculously , he manages to rehash his complaints of July 2009 without mentioning AT&T once . It ’s like he took last year ’s screed , ran it through an AT&T filter , and republished it .
Do n’t get the Macalope wrong . It ’s terrible that Arrington had a bad experience and the horny one feels just horrendous that he got make out off during what were probably very of import conversat - HAHAHAHAHA !
Oh , God , the Macalope ca n’t say that with a straight face ! Ahhh , well , the Macalopewouldfeel terrible if it were anyone else , but let ’s face it : this isMichael Arringtonwe’re talking about .
Is n’t it reasonable to deliberate that , given it ’s him on one end of the phone , there ’s a very real chance thosearen’t technically “ drop ” calls ?
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Here endeth the lesson
The Macalope hopes you ’re sitting down . Because — and he hates to be the bearer of ill word — it appears that Steve Jobs may bea big meanie .
Assuming the e - mails bring out by theGuardianare authentic ( and , let ’s face it , if it is n’t Steve , it ’s a moderately right impression ) , Jobs told a college news media student who e - mailed him because she was consume trouble contacting Apple PR :
Our goals do not let in helping you get a full grade . Sorry .
Well , he did say “ gloomy ” .
When the Macalope first interpret this report he thought , oh , no , it ’s another representative of Jobs describe ill - advised response to due east - mails . Why does he do that ? Ca n’t he hire a cell of Pollyannas to handle his email ? Well , in this illustration at least , there seem to be some extenuating circumstances .
For starters , the scholarly person , one Chelsea Kate Isaacs , repeatedly plead that a response is “ essential to [ her ] donnish operation . ”
Chelsea , Chelsea , Chelsea . Whining is n’t buy the farm to get you anywhere with Steve . And come on , your grades really are your responsibility , not Apple ’s . If your project desperately hinged on a reaction fromApple — which half the time does n’t respond to professional journalists — then you hitched your pushcart to the awry beach waggon .
Also , call the company hypocritical for making products that make scholar live easier but not responding apace to the query of student journalist just borders on the ludicrous . Enough with the passive / aggressive claptrap .
Most importantly , however , your biggest misunderstanding was in all probability right under your olfactory organ in your tocopherol - mail sig :
broadcast via BlackBerry from T - Mobile
Pro pourboire , Chelsea . When e - mailing mercurial CEO asking them for favor , you might not want todeliberately point out that you ’re using a competitor ’s product .
Anyway , Chelsea gets more ireful and practicallydemandsa response prompting Steve to recite her to “ leave us alone . ”
Perhaps Steve ’s better Puerto Rico move here would have been to not respond to the first Es - ring mail at all . But you bed he enjoyed bug “ Send ” on that last one .
Besides , everyone ask a hobby .
No iPhones, but we do have Hawaiian shirt Fridays
Surprise , surprise ! As corporate IT shops are replacing their more and more date BlackBerries , they ’re tilt more heavily on Android than the iPhone .
Corporations are jumping on the Google smartphone bandwagon , with Android twist growth outpacing Apple ’s iPhone 20 - fold in the last three months , a market investigator say Wednesday .
This is n’t to say that the iPhone isn’tmaking gains , but the horny one has tell itbeforeand he ’ll say it again :
It ’s not so much that the iPhone is n’t ready for the enterprise , it ’s that the initiative is n’t ready for the iPhone .
Of course , some of the diagonal toward Android is simply because it ’s available on a circumstances of unlike flattop , but countenance ’s not josh ourselves . There ’s another force at play here .
sporadically over the last three twelvemonth , the pasty cave troll that go embodied IT store have emerge from the waiter room to deliver yet another cause not to appropriate people to practice iPhones . First it was the lack of deployment tools , next it was inconsistency with Exchange , then it was security . One after the other , these were shew to be a smokescreen .
It made sense when they were still using BlackBerries — they were project to pass those tests , if not the tests of elegant user interface and hardware design . But Android is no good than the iPhone in any of those areas and is arguably worse in security . Next we ’ll discover that corporate workshop ca n’t deploy iPhones because they do n’t come with those boss belt holsters .
Look , just confront it , corporate IT : you ’re discriminatory . you may print all the bloodless papers you want , but the dependable bullet detail is the one you do n’t have the sand to put in print : you just do n’t care Apple .
Which is fine . You ’re only hurting yourselves .
Well , and all those poor employees . So perchance it ’s not fine .
