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Publisher Wiley's Books Pulled from Apple Stores
getling writes "Looks like Steve Jobs is almost as unhappy about personal details being publicized as he is with Mac secrets. The book publisher Wiley, who is releasing a new unauthorized biography of Jobs has had its entire line of books banned from Apple stores as a result of their unhappiness with the content of the book. Wiley, publisher of the popular Dummies series of books, as well as the Bible series, is quite surprised, due to the fact that they view the book to show Jobs in a largely positive light ..."
"That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give."
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
Book of Job? .. Oops.
They'd have all their books banned from the Library of Congress.
I wonder if that's what Sen. Trist meant by "Nuclear Option"?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Mr. Murphy, meet the Apple Legal Department. They know a thing or two about interpreting the law to my advantage.
So does the title "iCon" supposed be a stylish version of the word icon or does it represent a certain attitude: "I conned you into buying a nice OS on some very expensive hardware to make me a happy SOB"? For some reason, I keep thinking "iCon" might be a better title for a Martha Stewart book.
I heard he refuses to install Tiger and insists on running Mac OS X 10.3.9...
http://chrono.posterous.com/
Pissing off Major IT Corporations for Dummies. Character Assassination for Dummies. Making Bad Business Decisions for Dummies.
http://jesus.everdense.com/
Wait a second, you can't concede the point. This is Slashdot, dammit. If people start conceding points the whole system could come crashing down!
Flames! Trolls! Unspported facts! That's what Slashdot is about, not mature responses like conceding points; the system isn't set up to handle that!
- Apple and OSX rules
- MS are evil and Windows sux. but Xbox rules
- Sony are evil and PS2 is crap.
Yes, the aforementioned points are correct.
Circumcision is child abuse.
He said that Apple did something that WalMart wouldn't do. That's not the same as saying that Apple is more evil than WalMart. By that logic, I'm more evil than Hitler, because he was kind to children, and I'm always mean to them.
My big problem with iPhoto is the way it insists on moving all the JPEGs around and naming them according to its own whims.
... are you also one of those guys who complains that iTunes organizes your music for you? I ask because those guys are impossible for me to understand. We rolled out a product that was basically the holy grail of music management, and they complained that it managed their music for them. They insisted that they would rather name and sort each of 20,000 tiny files themselves, with all the obsessive focus of an autistic kid counting paper clips. It was freaky.
That's iPhoto's purpose in life. Your objection is like saying, "My big problem with Excel is the way it adds all the numbers together."
Just out of my own curiosity