August 5th, 2008
Steve Jobs to Employees: MobileMe? My Bad
By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
MobileMe’s launch has been anything but smooth. It was so bad that Apple has even offered a 30-day extension to those whose accounts were active as of July 9, 2008. Personally, they should just do the right thing and give everyone an extension, up until they finally bless the service as “fixed.”
However, Steve Jobs sets high standards, not just for his employees, but for himself and the company as a whole, and in an internal email that Ars Technica said they had viewed, he fessed up: My Bad. Well, Our Bad, but with caveats.
For one, Jobs admitted that rather than launching the whole service at once, they could have launched it in pieces (no!), such as launching the over-the-air iPhone syncing first, and then each web app (Mail, Calendar, etc) separately. He added:
“It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.”
Well, yeah! The iPhone 3G launch itself was a fiasco, right? Why add still more complexity?
It’s been so bad Apple’s even put up a status page, although it hasn’t been updated since July 29th.
Note: the first MobileMe bug I found was so embarassingly easy, I thought, “how did this make it out the door?” I couldn’t login unless my ID was entered in all lower-case, despite signing up with an upper-case first letter. Sigh.
dave says:
Steve Jobs Names God as Successor
By Brian Briggs
Cupertino, CA - Rumors about Steve Jobs’s health have caused many to wonder who will be his replacement at Apple. Since his return to the company, no clear successor has emerged. Jobs announced today that God would be taking his place when he steps down as CEO of Apple.
“I did an exhaustive search, but no one else was up to the task of replacing me. To tell you the truth, God really isn’t either, but he’s as close as I’m going to get,” said Jobs. “I have no plans of leaving soon, but I want the worries to end.”
God said He looked forward to taking over the company as well as help from Steve. “Steve will be close by me soon to help me out if I have any questions. Oops, I probably wasn’t supposed to say that. He’s going to be fine. Don’t worry.”
A recent employee survey showed that 85% of Apple employees were atheists, but this fact didn’t bother God. “I’m open to working with believers and nonbelievers,” said God. “I know that’s how Steve runs things, but there’ll have to be some changes.”
Many Apple fans were disappointed by the news. Mac user Daryl Fendingham said, “I doubt God could do as good a job as Steve has done. I mean, look at how the world’s going these days. It doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it?”
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Others were confused, like Frank Hawkings of Los Angeles. “I always thought Steve was God. I’m confused.”
God denied that Jobs would be taking His place once he took over the reins at Apple. “I’m an omnipotent being who created the universe, I think I can handle running a tech company along with my other duties.”
Apple’s stock was down on the news.
August 5th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
LZW says:
Maybe now Apple/Mac/Iphone/etcetra users can appreciate how it feels to pay for the privilege of being a beta tester. (Just like us Windows users)
As for replacing Steve Jobs, I seen this cable TV show called “My life on D List” and it’s about this woman who dates the other Apple Steve. (Steve Wozniak?) Go ahead and give her a try!
August 6th, 2008 at 5:06 am