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 ..."

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Funny you should mention this

[AKAImBatman]

A few days ago, my company's VP of Systems (read: head of IT) and I were walking back from lunch when we got on the subject of GarageBand and then Macintoshes. My good friend the VP stated that he absolutely loved the design of the new Mac Minis. The damn things were so functional, and yet so cheap. He'd setup several of these for relatives and they had all loved them. Anyway, as we were talking, we came to the conclusion that Steve Jobs may be an asshole, but at least he's a brilliant asshole!

A tribute. ;-)

Ugh

[CarlinWithers]

I'm loathe to post this in another thread, but no one bothered to reply to me before.

In the Paul Thurott article that calls Longhorn "not positive at all" (see slashdot posting a few hours ago), he also drops this bombshell: This one's bizarre, but we heard at lunch today that Apple is unhappy with the PowerPC production at IBM and will be switching to Intel-compatible cheaps this very year. Yeah, seriously.

Can anyone confirm or deny this for me? Am I just an idiot to be worried about this? PowerPC architecture is as much a reason to love Macs as OSX in my opinion.

Re:Good thing they didn't criticize a politican

[Kevin Nichols]

It's Frist, for the love of God.

Re:Check out Jobs' wife

[Stormwatch]

She's not bad, but John Romero's wife is way hotter!

Re:Steve Jobs & Apple aren't synonymous

[argan0n]

"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series

Wow, nice to see another Zelazny reader on /. Especially quoting the last line of CoC.
One of my personal Fav's from all ten - NPiA.

"I love the gusto with which you assail life, Corwin. It's one of the reasons I'd hate to see you part company with it."

That man, was a Writer.

Re:Repeat after me

[filmsmith]

I have a quesion regarding the new interface of Mail and since you are clearly inside Apple, was hoping you'd answer it.

Namely, why does the shelf (I guess) of Mail seems to be such a backstep? The prior Mail had it right where each button was its own icon and now each icon is buried inside its own ugly button.

Call me petty, but it's the horrible new interface of Mail alone that's keeping me from moving to Tiger. Sure, I could use Spotlight, Automator and Dashboard, but I don't need them, so I have no real compelling reason to move. Just one strong one to stay. Your thoughts?

dennis

p.s Sorry for the offtopic-ness of this post.

Re:Maybe it's the "iCon" title

[bperkins]

GODISNOWHERE