Apple PR: Latest Steve Jobs Email Exchange is Fake
The conversation was published Thursday by The Boy Genius Report and linked to by more than three dozen other sites. In it, a writer pretending to be Apple's CEO tries several times to mollify a customer called "Tom" who is furious about the iPhone 4's widely reported signal attenuation problem. In separate e-mail messages Jobs purportedly tells "Tom," who grows angrier with each exchange.
Boy Genius Report had originally published and vouched for the emails claiming the exchange was legitimate. Apple PR says the entire conversation was fabricated. The statements originally attributed to Steve Jobs included:"No, you are getting all worked up over a few days of rumors. Calm down."
"You are most likely in an area with very low signal strength."
"You may be working from bad data. Not your fault. Stay tuned. We are working on it."
"Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."
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(View all)All I know, it's easy to fake headers.
what's even sketchier is the headers BGR just posted aren't even from Steve Jobs. They seem to be the headers for the emailer. Not sure what that shows.
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what's even sketchier is the headers BGR just posted aren't even from Steve Jobs. They seem to be the headers for the emailer. Not sure what that shows.
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Eaxactly, this one email exchange can jeopardize legitamite exchanges. Furthermore, it is a jab at the reputation of BGR since they just posted something that is fake (or at least what Apple implies) knowingly.
Hmm. I wonder how many more of these Steve Jobs emails were also faked.
I'm pretty confident most of the Steve Jobs emails that have gotten a lot of circulation have been real. For example the heated exchange posted by Gawker was later confirmed by him at D8.
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Poor reporting.
Hmm. I wonder how many more of these Steve Jobs emails were also faked.
People believe what fits their bias and reject what doesn't. Human nature.
:rolleyes::apple:
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