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Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:54:35 -0400

"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe,..."

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:09:28 -0400

“Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.”

- Thoughts on Flash

Steve Jobs Email Reply Generator

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:54:33 -0400

Steve Jobs Email Reply Generator:

A great piece of satire from The Joy of Tech.

On Apr 25, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Someone wrote: HiWill the ipad 3G...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:44:00 -0400

On Apr 25, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Someone wrote:

Hi
Will the ipad 3G + WiFi be available to buy from Best Buy on April 30th?

Regards,
Someone

Sent from my iPhone

Steve’s response:

Yep

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Life is fragile.

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:28:00 -0400

With regard to Steve Jobs supporting a Bill in California along with government officials that would have the Department of Motor Vehicles ask people if they want to be an organ donor when they get their license.

Thank you, you’re awesome.

I lost my girlfriend on April 23, 2008 from melanoma which spread rapidly to her liver, 48 hours after we found out it spread to her liver she sadly passed away….she was only 24 and I think about her every day. I am so grateful you took time out to do this. My girlfriend and I are from Cupertino, since childhood, and it’s really nice to see the hometown hero take time out to do this.

Once again, thank you so much.

Sincerely,
James

Steve’s heartfelt response:

Your most welcome, James. I’m sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.

Steve

Sent from my iPad

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Morally Responsible

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:16:00 -0400

Steve,
I was converted to Apple products with the announcement of the iPhone 3G. (My friends have been trying to convince me for years.) Since then I’ve purchased 4 iPhones, 2 computers, several routers, and miscellaneous other items. Unfortunately, I’m really starting to have a philosophical issue with your company. It appears that more and more Apple is determining for it’s consumers what content they should be able to receive. For instance, the blocking of Mark Fiore’s comic app (due to being political satire) or blocking of what Apple considers to be porn.

I’m all for keeping porn out of kids hands. Heck – I’m all for ensuring that I don’t have to see it unless I want to. But… that’s what parental controls are for. Put these types of apps into categories and allow them to be blocked by their parents should they want to.

Apple’s role isn’t moral police – Apple’s role is to design and produce really cool gadgets that do what the consumer wants them to do.

Thanks for listening

-Matthew

Steve:

Fiore’s app will be in the store shortly. That was a mistake. However, we do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone.

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Steve, I, as well as many people I know, have HD camcorders...

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:11:31 -0400

Steve,

I, as well as many people I know, have HD camcorders now. The mac has been a wonderful platform for working with HD video of family and friends and special events. However, there doesn’t seem to be a good solution to distribute that HD video to family and friends while retaining high quality. I was wondering if you have any plans for Blu-ray in the mac lineup for those of us who want to be able to share our HD video.

Thanks,
Brandon Lauterbach

Steve:

YouTube now supports HD video.

Sent from my iPhone.

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“Software fix coming soon.”

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:30:00 -0400

“Software fix coming soon.”:

Every 50 clicks, my trackpad will stop responding for five to clicks. Generally this will resolve itself given a few seconds, and is not directly dependent on number of times the trackpad is clicked while unresponsive.

Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years...

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:27:10 -0400

Actually, all of the new HD camcorders of the past few years use USB 2.

Steve

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Far Faster

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:19:00 -0400

On Apr 13, 2010, at 10:48 AM, David Jenkins wrote:

Hey Steve,

I was really looking forward to a Core i3 or i5 13’ Macbook Pro. Any chance you can explain why you can explain why you stuck with the Core 2 Duo?

DJ J

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Steve:

Far faster graphics and 10 hour battery life trump 10-20% faster CPU.

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The iPad photo app looks incredible. Are there any plans to...

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:01:00 -0400

The iPad photo app looks incredible. Are there any plans to support Picasa’s faces and albums in iTunes, so I can take full advantage of the Photos application, since Photoshop Album is long discontinued. If not, please can you look into supporting the Picasa library format?

Thanks,

Jobs:

No, but iPhoto on the Mac has much better Faces and Places features.

Sent from my iPhone

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Dear Mr. Jobs, will I be able to sync my current library of...

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:52:39 -0400

Dear Mr. Jobs,

will I be able to sync my current library of free ePub ebooks on iBooks through iTunes when I’ll have my iPad?

For free ePub ebooks I mean the classic I can download for free since the copyright has expired. I’m using Stanza to read them on my iPhone right now.

Thanks.

Andrea

Jobs’s monosyllabic response:

Yep.

Sent from my iPad

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Awesome

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:43:52 -0400

Steve,

Getting worried about Apple’s interest in Final Cut. Last updates were not stellar. I heard a bunch of engineers were dropped too – give us a sign you still care about Pro Video, not just the iPad.

Thanks,

Alex

Steve:

We certainly do. Folks who left were in support, not engineering. Next release will be awesome.

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“I am never cleaning my inbox again.” An Email From...

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:37:39 -0400

“I am never cleaning my inbox again.”

An Email From Steve (Jobs)

Mistakes Were Made

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:21:52 -0400

While someone can still view these on the web with no problem, I would like to say that having these and others of their ilk available more widely as apps is a benefit to society. While ridicule might be involved, they it can play an important role in civic discourse — look to the Fool in King Lear, or other similar jesters in a royal court for examples the importance of satire.

Editorial cartoons of all stripes should get a pass when it comes to the license agreement with the exception of those that espouse violence.

P.S. my folks are enjoying the iPad I bought them (and they are in their 90’s).

Steve responds:

This was a mistake that’s being fixed.
Sent from my iPad

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Dear Mr Jobs On behalf of the international community of Apple...

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:41:00 -0400

Dear Mr Jobs

On behalf of the international community of Apple consumers I would like to protest at the way Apple is apparently leaving us out in the cold with the Apple iPad product.

We have been fed either misinformation or no information at all and it is starting to cast doubt over Apple’s intents, at least it is to me.

I live in Switzerland and as yet we have no idea what the Apple iPad will cost here, if it is anything like the international pricing we have been used to to date on other Apple products, then it will certainly not be an “unbelievable price” as stated in your marketing.

If the delays and lack of pricing information is due to Apple doing it’s level best, to make sure that we are not being ripped off, then I applaud that work. However, as previously mentioned, I am doubting this.

Twice to my knowledge you have falsely stated international availability of the iPad and while I do not believe this is any fault of your own, I can imagine that you are not happy being shown as deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes.

This is what you said at the iPhone OS4.0 announcement

11:10AM – Q: Will iPad’s success impact its international launch?

Steve: No, we said we’re launching internationally later in April, and we’re launching later in April.

Please can you clarify what is happening and why it has taken so long for information to be released to the international community.

May I suggest the following: Make it easier for us to purchase your products directly from the USA online Apple store. Many of us would be happy to do so and pay extra for local Applecare.

I look forward to your response.

Steve’s response:

“deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes”

Are you nuts? We are doing the best we can. We need enough units to have a responsible and great launch.

Gruber Speaks for Us

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:23:00 -0400

Gruber Speaks for Us:

Hi Steve,

Lots of people are pissed off at Apple’s mandate that applications be “originally written” in C/C++/Objective-C. If you go, for example, to the Hacker News homepage right now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/

You’ll see that most of the front page stories about this new restriction, with #1 being: “Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad” with (currently) 243 upvotes. The top 5 stories are all negative reactions to the TOS, and there are several others below them as well. Not a single positive reaction, even from John Gruber, your biggest fan.

I love your product, but your SDK TOS are growing on it like an invisible cancer.

Sincerely,
Greg

His response:

We think John Gruber’s post is very insightful and not negative:

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

Steve

“Of course he was right, I had somehow missed that post by Gruber, having only read the original. Gruber’s second post, which Jobs appears to be endorsing here, is indeed, very insightful, and may explain Apple’s motivations for the updates to section 3.3.1.

That said, I did not, and still don’t, consider those reasons to be very good, so I sent a reply in kind:”

Sorry. I didn’t catch that post, but I finished it just now.

I still think it undermines Apple. You didn’t need this clause to get to where you are now with the iPhone’s market share, adding it just makes people lose respect for you and run for the hills, as a commenter to that article stated:

“So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobe’s Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, there’s no lock-in advantage.”

And that makes Apple evil. At least, it does in the sense that Google uses the term in “don’t be evil” – I believe pg translated “evil” as something along the lines of “trying to compete by means other than making the best product and marketing it honestly”.

From a developer’s point of view, you’re limiting creativity itself. Gruber is wrong, there are plenty of [applications] written using cross-platform frameworks that are amazing, that he himself has praised. Mozilla’s Firefox just being one of them.

I don’t think Apple has much to gain with 3.3.1, quite the opposite actually.

Sincerely,
Greg

“Within about 3 minutes a second reply graced my inbox:”

We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.

Looking for Trouble

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:14:00 -0400

On Mar 27, 2008, at 3:01 PM, John Doe wrote:

Dear Steve Jobs,

I wanted to write and express my concern about some recent problems that I have had with Apple Care. This week, my MacBook Pro unfortunately sustained water damage. I understand this is entirely my fault but it is still something I would like to get fixed. After three or four calls I was finally able to get a straight answer. While I was happy to get a straight answer, I was not at all happy with the answer. It is very worrisome to met that the only way to get my computer fixed is to pay almost $300.00 up front with no guarantee that this will fix the problem. I was horrified to learn that their is no system to asses the problem and bill once all damage is known. I am reluctant to put money into a problem that could easily grow. I have had three Apple computers in a row. I love using them but I am not sure if my replacement will be one. I feel powerless in the situation and the whole experience has turned me off of the Apple company.

Sincerely,
John Doe

From: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com>
Date: March 27, 2008 6:53:46 PM EDT
To: <xxxxx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Apple Care Concern

John Doe,

This is what happens when your MacBook Pro sustains water damage. They are pro machines and they don’t like water. It sounds like you’re just looking for someone to get mad at other than yourself.

Steve

NBD

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:07:00 -0400

On Nov 11, 2009, at 8:19 PM, John Devor wrote:

Dear Mr. Jobs,

My name is John Devor and I’m the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App Factory and a long-term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you’re aware but we recently received a letter from a law firm working on Apple’s behalf instructing us that we had violated several of Apple’s trademarks in our application iPodRip and asking us to cease using the name and Apple trademarks in our icons.

We have been distributing iPodRip since 2003 with the aim of providing a method to recover music, movies and photos from iPods and iPhones in the event of a serious hardware failure on their Mac which leads to data loss. Our goal has been to provide the highest quality product coupled with the highest quality service in a bid to resolve some of the angst that is generated by such an ordeal; service befitting of an Apple product. In this department we think we have succeeded as we have approximately 6 million customers, many Apple employees, music artists and other notable people in society. In fact I’d argue that our customer service is the best of all competing applications in our niche as many of them are scams and frauds that leave Apple customers with a terrible taste in their collective mouths.

We fear very much that tens of thousands of Apple customers looking to recover their own music and having heard of our product via word-of-mouth or otherwise, will instead find a product produced by one of our competitors, and will wind up the victim of a scam (one closely-named competitor charges a hidden monthly fee, for instance).

It is quite obvious that we mean Apple no harm with the use of the name iPodRip, or of the inclusion of trademarked items in our icons, and in fact I believe that we have been providing an excellent secondary service to Apple customers that has potentially caused you many repeat clients. In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right!

With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me.

If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful.

Best,

John Devor

+ 1 (508) XXX-XXXX

The Little App Factory Pty. Ltd.

From: Steve Jobs
Subject: Re: “iPodRip” Trademark Name
Date: November 11, 2009 11:34:48 PM EST
To: John Devor

Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

Hey Steve! is Apple supporting/updating the iPhone 2G in the...

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:00:00 -0400

Hey Steve!

is Apple supporting/updating the iPhone 2G in the future?

Cheers Niko

Jobs’s reply:

Sorry, no.

Sent from my iPhone