Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, I don't mind Microsoft at all - at least their earnings indirectly contribute to improving life for the poor the world over. I do not like or trust companies that are contemptuous of their clients (Apple, Wall Street, etc) or are monopolies (Adobe) - the latter only because the software costs a lot because of it. Remember, my job through my life has been studying and analyzing companies - so I have far more insights into their behavior than most. Let us close this, as you suggested. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Well that went in an unintended direction, I don't read any sinister Apple > behavior into this at all but never mind. It is completely OT now. > I think I recall that you dislike Microsoft and Adobe as well!! > Take me to task off list if you like ;-) ;-) > > Go stomp on a few iPods or something , you'll feel better ;-) > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > NO ARCHIVE > > > On 28 May 2010 14:48, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >