Apple Website Experiencing Errors, Briefly Reinstates Phil Schiller As Senior VP of Marketing [Update: Fixed]

[emulator]

Does MR have a little application or something that monitors changes on Apple's website?

You can do that yourself, it's a chrome extension called distill.

 

[bLackjackj]

I wish it had a picture of Steve Jobs as CEO right now

 

[progx]

Bring Phil back or we riot. 😅

 

[ian87w]

He always seemed so nervous and awkward though... not a natural public speaker I'd say.

On the recent keynotes, yes. It's as if he's getting less comfortable, and ended up just reading the text on the slides verbatim. He used to sound more enthusiastic in the past.

 

[BeefCake 15]

Strange, I got this.

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I hope he writes a book and makes this the title.

 

[Cosmosent]

OMG, did Phil Schiller just try a Trump-style coup @ Apple ?

 

[w5jck]

Funny occurrence in one sense, but it also points to the total state of sloppiness within Apple these days. They are obviously hiring unqualified people to develop their FW, software, and even web pages. Looks like a total breakdown in management at all levels. They need to spend less time counting their billions of dollars and a lot more time supervising their unqualified developers.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

They probably had to restore the site from an old backup...
Or there's a coup going on at Apple?

 

[NMBob]

Bring Phil back or we riot. 😅

Is there an app for that?

 

[CarlJ]

Who even notices these kind of things? lol

People who have scripts set up to regularly check pages like this for changes, because they want to report on any changes. You didn't think it was someone sitting there continually refreshing by hand, did you?

 

[Sphincty]

People who have scripts set up to regularly check pages like this for changes, because they want to report on any changes. You didn't think it was someone sitting there continually refreshing by hand, did you?

Wait! Wut! This can be automated?

 

[DeepIn2U]

I totally agree, and who cares?

Yes, the Apple Internet team do daily updates & config changes,..how is this news??

Maybe it's Eddie Cue's lil joke ... him and Phil had an on-stage Apple event joke on Phil's BDay a few years back.

 

[genovelle]

Who even notices these kind of things? lol

Right! Talk about being under the microscope

 

[CarlJ]

Wait! Wut! This can be automated?

In about a billion different ways. One would be a small shell / Python / Perl / etc script that grabs a copy of a web page (say, using curl), stores it in a temporary file, and compares it against the similar file it made an hour or day (or a few minutes) ago, and if there are differences, alert a human. Run the script repeatedly throughout the day using cron. For bonus points, do the same thing on several dozen websites / web pages of interest each time. And this is just using tools that're already installed on most Macs. There are likely purpose-built tools out there for doing the same thing. It's not rocket science.

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Has a degree in Biology. Just one of the many people who left college/university with a degree in a subject field they did not use or pursue.

Sounds just like Tim not using any of the knowledge he learned about making great things from Steve!

 

[macduke]

Imagine if it reinstated Steve Jobs as CEO instead. He was cryogenically frozen after the iPhone 4S event and they cured his cancer 10 years later.

I like to imagine that headline would blow up the tech universe forever.

 

[progx]

Is there an app for that?

Phil: ...WTF?!

Everyone: We want Phil.

Phil: No one wants Phil!