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Apple PR: Latest Steve Jobs Email Exchange is Fake
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I think that is an unfortunate part of being a huge success.. there are people out there just waiting for Apple to slip up and sites willing to pay to expose that slip up.
Apple's Mac advertising was basically a smear campaign lasting for years and years, it's time to taste their own medicine now? Smearing was Apple's first reaction in several occasion on this antenna-gate as well, eg, first trying to smear other manufacturers having similar issues, now smearing the guy having problems with his iphone.
A company doing PR by sending arrogant / tongue in cheek messages in the name of their CEO (however charismatic) was not a good idea in the first place. Surprising is only that it hadn't come back to bite Apple until now.
LOL! Yeah, and it was such a good smear campagin that they got a whole...what? 1% more of the PC market?
Evil, evil Apple, trying to get more than it's %5 of the PC market. How dare they tell such lies about PC's in order to get people to try their computer?Oh, the outrage and the horror! To even imply that PC's aren't great and wonderful--that PC's might...just might not be telling the whole truth themselves?
It's a ***king AD CAMPAIGN! Exaggerating in such ads is rather like exaggerating on a resume. Everyone does it (see Sprint vs AT&T), though no one outright lies as there are libel laws. In point of fact, I think that all the PC's out there got a taste of their own medicine when the Apple ads came out. So if we're talking karmic retribution, I think you're calling the kettle black. Just ask all those folk who got lied to repeatedly about how cheap and good their PC's would be.
All if which is to say, this NOT the same as whether a news report is true or not. Stop comparing apples and lemons.
I would like to see this. Since he is using google domains apparently, and you can have GMAIL check pop mail from other e-mail boxes, the idea that they checked his Gmail means nothing since it is as easy to fake as any other email.
The only way it would be able to be given even a minor bit of creedence is if it was an actual @gmail.com email address where the mail went directly from Apple's Mailserver to Google's server and someone could verify it. Like you suggested a third party.
I can have an email from anyone to anyone show up in the gmail interface, that is easy.
I would also note that two of the screenshots in their most recent defense show the identical message id.
Even if this was accidently true, the number of careless blunders BGR has made in this case makes them a waste as a source of news and information. They admittedly misrepresented the original conversation accrediting Steve Jobs with saying something he did not say even by those who claim they talked to him. Then they defend themselves with evidence that is completely flawed.
I don't really care at this point, because it is not a big deal with what they attributed to Jobs. BGR just looks stupid and like amateur hour.
Again the come across as Gizmodo Jr in this whole thing.
I think what happened is BGR got duped by some guy (by the way claiming that this guy has no reason to lie is ridiculous, he also has no reason to tell the truth, which compared to Apple, who does have a reason to tell the truth), and decided to try and save face.
The blew it, and instead of saying, we made a mistake and should not have reported the story, they decided to hunker down and defend their ridiculous non-story about a fake email exchange that they paid some miscellaneous guy a few hundred dollars to run.
When you look at the motivations of all parties involved in this exchange, Buford, BGR and Apple the only one who has a strong motivation NOT to lie in this case is Apple. I think that sums it up.