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Re:How I Almost Got Acquired By Apple And Then Snubbed by hugh3 on Thursday June 17, 2010 @05:36PM (#1440441)
It would have been better if they'd let him know when they'd decided not to, though. It seems like they kept him hanging for a couple of weeks after saying "Sure, we'll send you a login so you can access our full database".
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Re:How I Almost Got Acquired By Apple And Then Snubbed by rit on Thursday June 17, 2010 @05:47PM (#1440480)
I've been in that situation before though, with some outside vendor/supplier a manager has hooked me up with. discussions go back and forth, I have an idea, and "Hey, let me see If I can get a login for that for you".

And then you actually try to get it done and you get stalled. But you may not have a "No" yet from above so you stall. It's a reasonable thing, but it seems like this guy was pegging all his hopes and dreams on this, and got over-excited.

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