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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by greyboy on Thursday November 01, 2012 @09:45AM (#4727418)
That caught my eye as an excuse of the super enterprise-y. I don't recall the page they put up after Steve Jobs passed away taking quite near that long.
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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by myko on Thursday November 01, 2012 @09:56AM (#4727498)
To be fair the Steve Jobs memorial was probably designed and created well in advance of his passing.

But yeah this is some Grade-A bullshit. Either that or Apple is worse at the web than I thought (which is pretty bad considering iTunes Connect).

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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by deong on Thursday November 01, 2012 @12:38PM (#4728365)
Well, they are the only retailer I can think of that has to take their entire site down for several hours to add a new sku.
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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by rrouse on Thursday November 01, 2012 @01:23PM (#4728615)
They don't have to.

I believe it's done for two reasons.

1). Suspense during their events 2). To keep people from buying the older devices that they are about to discontinue. No reason to have to field support calls for people wanting to cancel/return their newly purchased items.

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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by deong on Friday November 02, 2012 @11:02AM (#4732934)
I was going for snarky there. :)
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Re:Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on fron... by greyboy on Thursday November 01, 2012 @12:46PM (#4728419)
That's true.

I guess the ridiculousness of this excuse is that the page already exists and would simply (I would think) be a matter of changing the page text. I wouldn't think this would require intensive site-wide testing, but I've been wrong on these thigns before.

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