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Weekend Notes: Woz and Apple Firing, iPads in Israel, No Mac App Store, German Airline Offer
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iPad Israel Ban
I think it is looking more and more like this is about iDigital and greed. It sounds as though they want a cut of every iPad brought into the country and therefore are trying to block those who wish to go around them. The iPad is not available in Israel until after the European release. iDigital, is Israel's sole Apple distributor run by Chemi Peresm, the son of Simon Peres, the Israeli president.
Sadly, those who want them early are not just enthusiastic consumers. Many are developers who have a business need to secure the device early.
I think it is looking more and more like this is about iDigital and greed. It sounds as though they want a cut of every iPad brought into the country and therefore are trying to block those who wish to go around them. The iPad is not available in Israel until after the European release. iDigital, is Israel's sole Apple distributor run by Chemi Peresm, the son of Simon Peres, the Israeli president.
Sadly, those who want them early are not just enthusiastic consumers. Many are developers who have a business need to secure the device early.
Probably just a robot, accidentally replying "Yes" or "No"
or an Intern...Steve's got his mind on other, more creative things
Hi all...
I travel a lot to Europe and was quite curious to see if it will be easy to just purchase a micro-sim card in Europe when I get my iPad 3G to use it out there. This may not be breaking news but I was able to reach Steve Jobs (!) and I guess I got my one-word answer! (see below)
My question is then, why would anyone purchase the ipad 3G in Europe for hundred of dollars more (price and Euro difference) when they can just buy it here and swap the sim card?
George
Interesting point. I suppose you would have to pay shipping so the price difference (if still cheaper) will be reduced. Also convenience... People won't want to organise it to be shipped over and then have to wait for it while it is being shipped. Then there is the people that just wouldn't have thought of that!
Well usually there are friends that happen to travel to the US and are asked by their friends to buy them something from the Apple Store and bring it back with them. In fact head into any Apple store in NYC and chances are over 50% are foreigners buying ipods and computers to take with them abroad. I already have two friends in Paris asking for the iPad 3G!
Think Steve Woz actually knows/cares about the intricacies of the design? No. Like he said, he doesn't get involved in the rumor mill. He has better things to do. On Jany 27th, heard about the iPad, on April 3rd, he tried one out. In between, he was busy working, while other people were busy studying every nuance of the device.
What a horrible draconian weekend this was!
Marked with bold thick negative
Makes you think of 1984 Apple advert and hypocrisy...
Why do you have to? There's no need for you to post anymore. Just stop, all together.
Absolutely! Any company would HAVE to fire the person who showed the iPad intentionally. Otherwise other employees would become lax about upholding Apple's security policies.
i don't understand the outrage here. An employee signed a document specifically saying not to do something...then he did something that he said he wasn't going to do, and he got fired for it. How does this make Apple some evil, draconian entity?
I heard the employee was not fired because he showed Woz the product, but because of the way he snuck the iPad out in his own body cavity and then removed it from the "secured area." Needless to say, no one should treat an Apple Product like that, no matter how cool Woz is.
Okay, lemme see if I got this straight. Steve Wozniak works for Apple and he somehow didn't know he was using a 3G iPad??? BULL CRAP! Everyone knows what the 3G iPad looks like with that ugly black bar running across the top! We've known that even before it went on sale.
Apple keeps Woz around as a sort of adorable furry corporate pet, but there are three things Apple employees must never do to Woz, upon pain of immediate termination:
1. Never expose Woz to bright lights.
2. Don't ever get Woz wet.
3. Never, ever feed Woz secret information after midnight.
<more ambitious person to insert appropriate Photoshop here>
..one employee showed a device
..the other employee lost a device.
Not sure which is the bigger offense
Showing off a device = Intentional
Losing a device - Unintentional
See the difference?
Apple had to fire the guy. It does not matter who he showed it to, the fact is that he was given instructions not to and he voluntarily and deliberately went against his agreement. Can you imagine the precedent this would set if Apple turned a blind eye? IMHO this send a strong message to other employees, that you can't even get away with showing a pre-release device to the co-founder of the company!
1. The firing of an Apple employee was reported by the same outfit that is itself being investigated by the police for theft.
2. Apple isn't responsible for any stupid rumours about an application store.
3. If you actually informed yourself about Apple + working conditions in China you would find out that we only know about these working conditions because Apple investigates them, publishes the results, and forces employees in China to fix what is not acceptable. For example, about two million dollars were paid to employees in China because Apple found that these people were cheated on by agents and Apple forced those agents to pay up.
- Israel lifts ban on iPad imports. iPads were temporarily banned from being imported
I think the right term is 'meschugge'.....
I think the right term is 'meschugge'.....