Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
by tinco on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:58AM
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A meeting with a hundred of your closest friends isn't a meeting, much less a private meeting, it's a public announcement. Maybe if all of those hundred are your employees you could consider it private, but assuming it wouldn't leak would be naïve. Apple wanted a couple weeks head start on Rhapsody and Napster, and they fucked up and forgot to inform their guests that the announcement was under wraps. There's not more to it.
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Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
by sharklazer on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:39PM
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Right. More than that, you get NDAs signed before the meeting. I’ve never known this to not be standard practice. At least when the person you’re talking to doesn’t have a greater leverage in the meeting—but then you naturally restrict what you say under such a circumstance. This sounds like childish behavior on the part of Apple, but honestly when I’ve never been able to change the snooze time on the alarm app, that is what I expect. If I were CD Baby, I would have never gone back to that, as long term you’ve got greater leverage when all the competitors are getting access. In fact, I would have doubled down and paid developers to start working on iPod compatibility for the competitors.