I emailed him a while back asking about switching to a Mac and told him my uses, wants, etc. and he emailed me back very politely something along the lines of "I love the 13" Macbook Pro with the unibody aluminum case". Nothing earth shattering but I dont think its rude. Pretty cool that he responds at all I think. Just for the novelty of it if nothing else.
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Steve Jobs Weighs in on iPad International Pricing and Taxes
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Yes. 10%. Given the economies of scale alone in selling in the US vs umpteen different countries (including my own), I too say... whatever.
Short. To the point.
Gotta love Mr. Jobs!
He was always like that at NeXT and Apple. He calls a spade a spade.
I think he likes all his products.
Well, all I do with it is sync iphones, and email, shop, websurf, some VERY light word processing, publishing, and store pictures. No video editing, nothing heavy at all. Just seems like they work with itunes better and thats what my wife and I use for music and we both use iphones. Plus I like to upgrade every couple years and from what Ive researched on residual value, I can make up the "apple tax" when I sell the first mac back on ebay and upgrade. I dont even care about batt life as it probably will never go anywhere. My current toshiba has never had the battery placed in it (2 yrs old).
If you never go anywhere, then a quad core Mac Pro with2 30" displays is a good choice.
Countries with little tax usually struggle more than those that tax more. We may not like it, but taxes are essential to a nation being productive/healthy.
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Countries that acknowledge a need for revenue and acknowledge what they are spending live in reality (unlike what Greece was doing—it lied about borrowing money). Western European countries choose higher taxes in exchange for solid public services which increase the quality of life. Sort of like buying a Mac.
A bit terse I think. Educate yourself. .... Blame your government....
Still at least its a response.
Its obvious whey they are charging the British more - because they have those extra U's in words, like spelling the word flavor as "flavour", they have to use more pixels and thereby increasing cost.
Hes wrong and so are you. Your saying that taxing productivity inspires people to be more productive? Are you trying to sound crazy? And if your talking about healthy as in "health care" every government run health care system on the planet is in shambles (unless your just in denial, and the private system in the USA needs plenty of work, Ill agree) and ready to collapse. Want to know what one the the EU's requirements to Greece to offer the bail-out was???? Privatize their health care industry....hmmm sounds like these progressives really do know what works best.
It is a demonstrable fact that every time taxes are lowered in the USA revenues go up drastically. Contrary to what progressive will feed you, higher taxes do not mean higher revenue. That takes less spending and borrowing to pay for entitlements.
Unbelievable, the droves of people complaining about Jobs' apparent lack of civility or politeness. Do they not know that it is indeed a rarity to get a personal reply from any CEO, let alone the one of the most popular/admired/sued/mimicked/mud-slinged company around here and these geniuses are trashing him for bluntness that comes with brevity.
Face it Your only choices are getting slap in the face blunt reply or none at all. Which one would you choose?
Well, then thank him dearly for doing so!
Face it Your only choices are getting slap in the face blunt reply or none at all. Which one would you choose?
Well, then thank him dearly for doing so!
hmm, I dunno... you do the pixel count:
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You fail to differentiate customers who complain no matter what and customers who complain because the company has not done their part of the deal properly. If you shoot consumers, then there won't be any for your product and you'll go bankrupt, but if companies go down, so what? There'll be new ones to replace them. Corporate fanboism has got to end, companies are evil too, look at Google, Microsoft, Bell, Rogers etc... Personally, I don't think it'll be the end of the world if Rogers to Bell or at&t or T-Mobile went bankrupt...
Nothing earth shattering indeed but rather nice to think that the company head shared his thought with you on that topic but I still think the Educate yourself ... remarks were a bit terse. Frankly I wonder why he bothered.
I'm not talking about "corporations", I'm talking about my experience working for small 3 to 20 man companies back in the 90's after school, before I got into graphic and sound design. I worked in a music store for a while... I've been a model customer ever since, as long as I'm dealing with small businesses (I'm still an intolerable bitch when I'm dealing with corporations). The way people treat restaurant personnel, clerks in small local stores etc... ugh, it's painful to watch.You fail to differentiate customers who complain no matter what and customers who complain because the company has not done their part of the deal properly. If you shoot consumers, then there won't be any for your product and you'll go bankrupt, but if companies go down, so what? There'll be new ones to replace them. Corporate fanboism has got to end, companies are evil too, look at Google, Microsoft, Bell, Rogers etc... Personally, I don't think it'll be the end of the world if Rogers to Bell or at&t or T-Mobile went bankrupt...
I'm just getting sicker and sicker every day of seeing this retarded over-the-top marketing hyperbole for the iPad.
I do get a kick out of people defending sheer rudeness. I don't care if Steve has a trillion dollars and ruled the Earth. You don't talk to people like that. He's pretty much a giant (fill in the blank with your favorite pejorative).
What's funny is that without Woz, he's a complete nobody. The guy is not an engineer. He's never made a friggin' product in his entire life. He just gets to boss people around because he was in the right place at the right time. Heck, he even screwed over his original partner back in the day.
What's funny is that without Woz, he's a complete nobody. The guy is not an engineer. He's never made a friggin' product in his entire life. He just gets to boss people around because he was in the right place at the right time. Heck, he even screwed over his original partner back in the day.
Even if this is true (assuming Woz was not without his own faults / responsibility how things ended up), the present history provides a compelling counter-argument in the fact that he led Apple (which was in shambles) without Woz to its current position.
No one is perfect, but as a business man and technology leader, there are few better.
Apparently, you're still interested. Otherwise, you would've ignored this thread. Please forewarn us ahead of your ultimate breaking point.
Well, they should've timed it better. Normally Apple releases products all over the world simultaneously (iPods, Macs, software etc) and the latest big front page banner goes up on all the local Apple sites at the same time. When the first iPhone was released, it was only in the US to begin with so they didn't make a big fuzz on their international sites.
But this time around, they threw up the gargantuan iPad banner on all Apple sites all over the world on the announcement day, and they all still have it despite the fact that nobody can buy it outside the US. Apple.se in Sweden is just one giant iPad billboard, but we're not getting it on May 28th, and not in the second round in July, the best guess is September. So they'll have to take down the iPad stuff before then, given that the iPhone (and possibly other products) will come inbetween. All that hoopla for a product that was 6 months away... very odd. Swedes will have gone through a lot of phases before then. The "OMG WOW" phase (months ago), the "I want an iPad" phase (weeks ago), the "I think I still want an iPad" phase (today), the "what was that thing I wanted again?" phase and the "do you remember when we were young and Apple announced the iPad? Those were the days" phase. By the time it actually arrives, I doubt there'll be much "magic" left.