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Jon Stewart digs on the Apple/Gizmodo ordeal

Hilarious - Even for Stewart

John Stewart drives me crazy most of the time with his rantings and extreme bias, but this time...

AWESOME!!! He is so right! This was very well done... Hopefully, the MacRumors post yesterday is true, and the new 4G comes out soon after the WDC!

I will have to post this on my blog.
 
ipad, bigger iphone! coming from one of the biggest bandwagon fan, LOL!

well, att reception doesn't work on jon's iphone, surprising!!! :D
 
Simply brilliant.​

The funny thing is I've made all these jokes about Apple to the horror of the fanboys in other various threads and been attacked viciously! LOL

But none of them seem to be in this thread.
I guess you have to climb out of Steve Jobs' pants leg to join reality. LOL

I predicted from the moment the illegal home invasion happened at the request of Apple that this would come back to bite them in the ass PR wise.

You can debate the illegality of the found iPhone until the cows come home, but this action by Apple is worthy of complete and utter ridicule and derision and makes Steve Jobs look like some cheap ass 3rd world dictator having a self-centered temper tantrum because his keynote got leaked!

POLICE POLICE, MY KEYNOTE GOT LEAKED! BREAK DOWN THE DOOR! LOL​

And sure enough, Apple is the laughingstock of the world and on Leno, Letterman, and now John Stewart's Daily Show.

Thanks John, brilliant, couldn't have said it better or certainly funnier myself. :)
 
designgeek said:
"Go after AT&T, they make your phone unusable as a phone."
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I don't know where you people live, but I hear all the time from people on here acting like At&t is SO HORRIBLE. I live in the midwest and I never have any problems with At&t...full service everywhere I go and rarely any dropped calls. I've had them all, Verizon (which completely blows), sprint, nextel etc.... At&t has the best service...
 
Yes, Apple is a kind of Big Brother. They strictly control what people get to do with their devices. Some might call it censorship.

And what does Stewart complain about?

That they got mad at the guy who, well, paid a stranger to get his hands on their property and then even disassembled it?

Imagine losing your iPhone. The guy who finds it doesn't return it and sells it instead. And another guy takes it apart to look inside. You'd be mad, too. ;) Even if it wasn't a super secret candy pooping prototype.
 
Trius said:
I don't know where you people live, but I hear all the time from people on here acting like At&t is SO HORRIBLE. I live in the midwest and I never have any problems with At&t...full service everywhere I go and rarely any dropped calls. I've had them all, Verizon (which completely blows), sprint, nextel etc.... At&t has the best service...
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I think this refers to large markets. There have been lots of complaints about AT&T in New York City, San Francisco, and a few other places. It seems that the population density has saturated AT&T's ability to keep calls going with the 3G network active.
 
true, apple becoming a big bully, hitting the small guy. these and the foxconn employee death. soon , people will abandon it, leaving them with those die hard fan boys.

i am also unhappy why usa get ipad, and we the rest of the world have to wait.
 
foobarbaz said:
Yes, Apple is a kind of Big Brother. They strictly control what people get to do with their devices. Some might call it censorship.

And what does Stewart complain about?

That they got mad at the guy who, well, paid a stranger to get his hands on their property and then even disassembled it?

Imagine losing your iPhone. The guy who finds it doesn't return it and sells it instead. And another guy takes it apart to look inside. You'd be mad, too. ;) Even if it wasn't a super secret candy pooping prototype.
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QUESTION: Would the police in your town break down the door of someone who stole your cell phone?

ADMIT IT... Answer? NOPE!​

And please let's go down the trade secrets route, we're not talking anything breakthrough here or nuclear technology. This was a crazed over-reaction by both local police authorities and Apple and they deserve to be roundly ridiculed, lambasted, and criticized for this complete waste of tax dollars and destruction of property and home invasion, all for a lost cell phone by a drunk guy in a bar.
 
Jon Stewart has a lot of pull. Even when he gets things wrong or fails to mention some key points because they wouldn't help his purpose. It's unfortunate, but that's the way it goes.

Two very simple ways for Apple to defuse this completely:

1) Do nothing. Apple's been going their own way for years now. Negative publicity has rolled off their back like rain off an umbrella. Just keep churning out the goodies that make the rest of the industry look like Chinese moped repair shops. Keep it business as usual and things will roll along . . . as usual. Even Stewart couldn't help gushing over Apple gear. In fact, I'm inclined to think Apple got more positive publicity from this. See the very end of Stewart's commentary.

2) Sidestep Jon Stewart completely and use Colbert for a positive spin. He already came out in support of the iPad.

As long as Apple makes no direct, public response to this, they're fine. So no "open letters" about this, Steve. Your Flash letter is working like a charm. But avoid this little hornets nest. Let the rest of Hollywood continue to inevitably do your marketing for you.
 
Trius said:
I don't know where you people live, but I hear all the time from people on here acting like At&t is SO HORRIBLE. I live in the midwest and I never have any problems with At&t...full service everywhere I go and rarely any dropped calls. I've had them all, Verizon (which completely blows), sprint, nextel etc.... At&t has the best service...
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i live near the '4 dropped calls in one mile' zone that stewart is talking about..
i used to use sprint and never had dropped calls.. with att, it's a daily occurrence..

once i get out of the city, things improve.
 
HyperZboy said:
QUESTION: Would the police in your town break down the door of someone who stole your cell phone?

ADMIT IT... Answer? NOPE!​

And please let's go down the trade secrets route, we're not talking anything breakthrough here or nuclear technology.
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It's not just a cell phone. That's the whole idea. And Gizmodo *knew* it wasn't just a cell phone. The "Trade Secrets" route you would like to sidestep isn't going away.
 
kenypowa said:
+1. I still love my Macs and iPod, but Apple has been a huge letdown in the last year. It's just another gigantic corporation.
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Apple is able to provide AFFORDABLE cool stuff because it IS a gigantic corporation. It's a success story. Their products keep getting better and cheaper. Ever since they started getting venture capital in the late 1970s, Apple was a big, multi-million dollar company. Now, because it hasn't lost its focus on the customer, it has become a multi-billion dollar corporation.

They are a publicly held company and must answer to their shareholders. People who love Apple products, yet hate large corporations make no sense. It is big corporations that bring us these things.
 
Everyone is missing the point

A FELONYhas been committed. Who cares about the company involved or anything else. We live in a country that has the rule of law, and it allows for someone (or a company) to file a complaint with their local police department, and if the police can gather enough evidence to prove probable cause. They then can issue warrants break down doors and arrest the criminal. Gizmodo purchased stolen merchandise, and the guy who found it (wink, wink) made no attempt to return it to it's rightful owner. Under California law that is a crime. Then he sold it to Gizmodo (Felony) and once Gizmodo received the stolen merchandise they are guilty of a felony as well. I don't care if it is Apple, an individual, or whatever, it sounds to me like the rule of law is working. Why are most people missing this?
 
Disappointed and surprised by the selective description.

quagmire said:
And here I thought Jon was smart and would find out the details of this story before "reporting" it.

Funny segment, disappointed in lack of research.
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He seemed to have several details wrong and omitted others altogether. Interesting that he chose to sacrifice some facts in preference for commentary that resonates less if you have followed the story closely.

Few seem to understand the potential impact to Apple's business that relies on some level of secrecy to innovate on the scale they do.
 
mscabot said:
A FELONYhas been committed. Who cares about the company involved or anything else. We live in a country that has the rule of law, and it allows for someone (or a company) to file a complaint with their local police department, and if the police can gather enough evidence to prove probable cause. They then can issue warrants break down doors and arrest the criminal. Gizmodo purchased stolen merchandise, and the guy who found it (wink, wink) made no attempt to return it to it's rightful owner. Under California law that is a crime. Then he sold it to Gizmodo (Felony) and once Gizmodo received the stolen merchandise they are guilty of a felony as well. I don't care if it is Apple, an individual, or whatever, it sounds to me like the rule of law is working. Why are most people missing this?
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Very well stated. You'll notice that very few posts in the forum are riding the fence. They either see very clearly that a felony was committed, or they see that Apple is an evil monolithic empire, kicking down 'the little guy.'

This is called moral relativism... where everything is 'relative' unless it happens to you - then it becomes a big deal and a reason to be indignant. Those who are claiming they now see Apple as the new Microsoft are delusional. They think they hate big business, but are too delusional to realize how they benefit from big business. There are corrupt companies out there, but many choose to throw out the baby w/ the bath water. They align themselves ideologically with the likes of Che Guerva and his ilk, who would not and could not deliver an innovative device like an iPhone at a price for the common man, and then demonize the company that brings them the products they cannot get enough of.

It's hypocrisy that has gone into hyperdrive.
 
AT&T in NY

I'm currently visiting Manhattan, and so far the AT&T coverage here is fairly good (far better than the spotty and horrible unreliable coverage in SF).
 
freelancing said:
...Che Guerva and his ilk, who would not and could not deliver an innovative device like an iPhone at a price for the common man
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Neither can Apple, by the way.

But thanks for that insight, I didn't realize Che was working on a mobile device. But you can rest satisfied in the knowledge that you gave about 25 editors of a major national weekly newsmagazine their laugh of the week.

(It's "Guevara," actually, but I guess it's all relative.)
 
AT&T has it's problems..... mainly the high use of iPhones, but gearing up as of late.
As for Apple and Steve Jobs, this is painfully accurate.
 
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