Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, I see that, and I knew it was posted in a lighter vein by you. But I just wanted to make a slightly serious point that this is standard Apple behaviour in the second coming of Steve Jobs, and that this sort of thing is not the exception, it is the norm. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Jayanand the post was just for fun of course, but its hardly surprising > when > there is a little pushing and shoving amongst the journos to get the best > spot at a crowed gathering like this. I laughed when they suggested that it > was an established tradition that people who got their first were entitled > to keep their spots over the official film crew. ?A gentleman's code of > honour with chivalry! > > Someone's shirt was grabbed when they were trying to push back into the > crowd! Quelle Horreur!!! Not quite a riot is it? Pretty clearly to me the > security guy exceeded his authority but of course you can't see what the > photographers were doing before that either. They were trying to re-occupy > the spots that they had staked out. ?None of that is some sort of > indictment > of Apple's behaviour surely. In any event, the photog involved got > some coverage for himself as did the other press who got to grab shots of > this and Apple got some more exposure too. All a storm in a teacup. They > could have then chosen to boycott the event coverage I suppose, but I have > a > feeling that their employers would not have approved. > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 28 May 2010 13:37, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Geoff, >> What is so surprising? They do this all the time. Steve Jobs is a >> marketing genius, but he is also totally paranoid. This sort of >> behaviour is par for the course for Apple. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > A little argie bargie in Australia at the iPad launch. Maybe the >> > official >> > crew was using their iPhones. >> > >> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/media-assaulted-in-ipad-mayhem/story-e6frg996-1225872420734 >> > >> > Cheers >> > Geoff >> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >> > >> ?> _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >