Interesting Email I Got From The Office Of Steve Jobs

[Sobe]

people are making it sound like he has 1 imac he's running his life out of.

He probably has 20 macs, 10 iPhones, and secretaries doing everything for him.

I'm sure he has lots of different configurations he can play with.

 

[queshy]

Wow, that's really cool that he answered.

I actually worked at a big box electronic store this summer and we get reps from different companies all the time coming in to train us on the latest stuff.

One day, an apple rep came in, and he told me he went to cupertino a few weeks back for some sort of apple rep conference, and he told me that once he got on the campus, there was security everywhere, and that the person in charge said that if you see Steve Jobs, you can't say anything to him and if you do, you get kicked out. hehe

Nicely written e-mail.

 

[opticalserenity]

Can we just stick to the email itself. And not worry about if it is legit or not. I believe it. Jobs has been well known to reply to people who email him.

I hope this is true. I'm very bored with the iPhone in it's stock status and not hacked.

 

[boss1]

I emailed him. Asked him for a million dollars. I waiting for a response...

 

[Cleverboy]

There is a secure way...AppTapp

Prior to 1.1.1. running third party apps on the phone was NOT secure. The Wifi masquerade scare shows that. AppTap does not ADD a layer of security, it simply allows more applications onto the phone. Confuse the issue all you want, but it doesn't change the facts.

~ CB

 

[rdowns]

It never ceases to amaze me how many people know the inner workings of Apple and its CEO.

 

[BlackMR2]

the email is true because everything on the internet is true

 

[Cleverboy]

Why anyone would comment about the operating system as a means of determining the veracity of an e-mail, when we've been dutifully given the headers, is beyond me. Though I've disabled the tool on my website Optimize.net, I've run the headers through my e-mail header parser tool locally with the following results.

Looks groovy to me, near as I can tell. I think its from Apple. (And, wow are people cynical). Good stuff, Graham.

~ CB

 

[sparkleytone]

It is definitely from Apple based on two (or maybe 1.5) fronts.

1. The SPF check passes, meaning it has been sent by a mail daemon that resides on a network explicitly allowed by Apple's DNS settings. That SPF setting is as follows:

apple.com.              3600    IN      TXT     "v=spf1 ip4:17.0.0.0/8 ~all"

2. The subnet (17.255.255.255) of the aforementioned network through which the response was sent is completely owned by Apple. Unless Apple has a completely open SMTP relay at host mail-out4, it is a reasonably authorized exchange.

Whether or not is was actually written and sent by Steve Jobs is purely speculative.

 

[rockstarjoe]

Of course the email is real. Stop being so paranoid. Doubtful that it was actually written by Jobs, but probably one of his assistants checks the sjobs@apple.com account, weeds out the garbage, forwards on the important email, and responds to anything in between. Why that is so hard to imagine is beyond me.

But on topic, it is good news. I think Apple has heard the message loud and clear regarding 3rd party apps. Hopefully they approve a way to install them soon.

 

[The General]

Well, it's from Apple but he still could have just changed the message that was written.

I'll believe it when Apple lets it happen.

 

[artalliance]

Well, it's from Apple but he still could have just changed the message that was written.

I'll believe it when Apple lets it happen.

I am all for some healthy skepticism, but why would the OP do that?

 

[Telp]

I am all for some healthy skepticism, but why would the OP do that?

I dont think someone such as ghall would do that. Hes honost and well known on this forum. He wouldnt risk it all for something stupid like that.

 

[QCassidy352]

Well, it's from Apple but he still could have just changed the message that was written.

I'll believe it when Apple lets it happen.

I really have no idea why people are skeptical of this. If he claimed to know how or when 3rd party app support was coming, sure, but this? Why on earth would he make it up? And did you seriously not think apple was thinking hard about this issue?

 

[Telp]

I really have no idea why people are skeptical of this. If he claimed to know how or when 3rd party app support was coming, sure, but this? Why on earth would he make it up? And did you seriously not think apple was thinking hard about this issue?

Its just the world that we live in. People are skeptical about everything, because its extremely easy to fake almost anything. On that note, exactly ! Why would he lie about something like that. If he had said we have a great app that so and so is working on right now and it will be released tomorrowk, that would be different, but this seems like the kind of response you would expect.

 

[3282872]

Graham,

We like third party apps too, and we're working on a secure way to let them onto the iPhone.

Steve

It should read more like this:

We like third party apps too, but we want a way to sell them on iTunes and make money off the iPhone.

Steve

 

[RichP]

I really have no idea why people are skeptical of this. If he claimed to know how or when 3rd party app support was coming, sure, but this? Why on earth would he make it up? And did you seriously not think apple was thinking hard about this issue?

Yeah, its not like the response has some new information in it. They probably get thousands of emails to that address every day, and one of the customer-relations persons gave the OP that response.

 

[sblasl]

I would be willing to put money on it that the email response did come from Apple, however, I would also put money on it that Steve Jobs never saw the original inquiry, he himself never responded, and he has no idea that it was ever even sent.

Corporate Communications is the department that received the initial inquiry and some intern within that department sent the obligatory "canned" response.

 

[savar]

You're kidding, right? Do you seriously think that the CEO of a company like Apple is going to run his day-to-day life using a beta version of an OS? Really?

Do you seriously think the CEO of a company like Apple responds to people like Graham?

Your point is valid though...no matter who is answering Steve's e-mail, there are absolutely no reasons for them to be running a beta OS.

 

[Sobe]

Do you seriously think the CEO of a company like Apple responds to people like Graham?

Your point is valid though...no matter who is answering Steve's e-mail, there are absolutely no reasons for them to be running a beta OS.

Read the title of the thread.

"Interesting Email I Got From The Office Of Steve Jobs"

[my bold]

 

[Me1000]

I guess someone could email Jobs and ask him if this is legit!

 

[cah87]

I think its cool man. Just to shut everyone up you could post a screen shot of the email in the program or in fire fox since it is gmail then everyone would know it is real.

 

[LastZion]

I guess someone could email Jobs and ask him if this is legit!

That was funny, thanks.

Good job on the email mate. I hope they are working on it

 

[tsvb]

Considering that Leopard is supposedly in release-candidate status - yeah. Jobs seems like a such a hands-on manager, I would expect him to be using it at this point.

I'm sure he has a machine running the latest build somewhere but I would bet my life that his main machine is running Tiger.

 

[Me1000]

For the sake of everyone I think we need to email him and ask him what OS he runs too!