Steve Jobs' Plan for a Willy Wonka-Style Celebration of the Millionth iMac

[thegreypatch]

If you're that against private lotteries, then why not craft laws that go after private lotteries with just a little bit of nuance and intelligence?

Surely you can write a law that allows something like what Steve Jobs proposed, which is clearly not a private lottery.

i dont get what is wrong with his idea?.. you still got to buy a lottery ticket to be in the lottery, you muy and imac to be in that lottery :/ big deal!

some nerd would ened up winning it if not who doesnt give two hoots about atrip to apple.. what would be the point in that!

 

[Sackvillenb]

Steve Jobs was such a strange dichotomy. It would have really been something if this had become a reality!

 

[justperry]

I've read through all these post and none mentioned the possibility of it being a hidden "lottery".

What is a lottery, isn't it so that a lottery is open and advertised, what if Apple didn't tell anyone about it, only the Top Executives would know and put one single ticket in a box without anyone even be aware there is one inside.
That would work and bypassing those laws.

 

[Mac2012]

Yet another example of government taking the fun out of everything. Haha.

I think it's total BS! They just raided Gibson guitars over wood for Christ's sake... **** them!

 

[happybuda]

twisted logic

You got downvoted, but it really is. Who is harmed by this law not existing? What reasonable person would be offended by having to purchase a product to be entered into a contest?

No one benefits from a silly law like this. I'm sure there's some theoretical antitrust mumbo jumbo someone can come up with to justify it, but come on. All it did was ruin a really fun idea.

well, if you can win something without purchasing, then you should also be able to get money from lobbys without being elected.

 

[darrensmith016]

Ive seen pictures of the Foxconn Factories - look nothing like that...

 

[rjberger]

Real Reason it didn't happen

None of the Management Team wanted to dress up as Umpa Lumpas and have to sing the Umpa Lumpas song

 

[Peewhy]

You think thats bad? Try living in Ontario, Canada. Bylaws here are rampant, they make life a sterile nightmare. It doesnt help that Canadians are passive either, the government says jump, Canadians say 'how high?'

So true