<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Epic fail, Pat. Nice troll, though.<div><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:57 PM, p z wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><base href="x-msg://14/"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi all, also OT</div><div><br></div>Now suppose I were to sell you a "computer" with a hard disk of 64 GB (no SSD), a 10 inch screen with ridiculously low resolution and 2 old VGA cameras, 1 GHz Intel DualCore chip (haha), no USB, no Firewire, but a hilariously closed pseudo operating system that needs its own store. If you buy summet from that store 30 % of what you pay goes to me. this device cannot do basic functions such as copy/paste or play certain video or audio formats. compared to this environment North Korea looks like Las Vegas. But hey, the design and the form factor are absolutely amazing and genius so I am going to create a huge buzz behind a veil of secrecy call it the reinvention of the computer and charge you "just" 800 Euros for that, plus data plan from carrier on which I might have a percentage), make sure it becomes a cult object sold to millions who don't really need this thing and enter the history books and the annals of IT Hagiography, Myth and Legend<div><br></div><div>Somehow I cannot help but to admire such chuzpe.</div><div><br></div><div>Pat</div><div><br><div><div>Am 06.10.2011 um 15:58 schrieb maryellen jensen:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; ">One cannot say this is OT - Jobs dying is THE TOPIC<i>everywhere</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>today.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; "><br></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; "><br></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; ">I just want to pass along a link to one of the longest published interviews Jobs ever did,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; "><br></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; "><br></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; ">The Playboy Interview 1985:</font><br><br><a href="http://www.txtpost.com/playboy-interview-steven-jobs/">http://www.txtpost.com/playboy-interview-steven-jobs/</a><br><br><br><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; ">Mary</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16pt; "><br></font><br> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>