Just picked up my office phone and it’s Sergey Brin, who says: “This is Sergey Brin. You think I’m a spoiled hypocritical billionaire who talks smack about energy conservation while commuting to strip bars in a jumbo jet, and I think you’re an argument for making abortion retroactive. Am I catching you at a bad [...]

Incredible. My iPhone just rang and I picked up and it’s Woz. He goes, “This is Steve Wozniak. You think I’m a fat lazy billionaire who cuts the line at Apple stores and hasn’t done anything serious with my life since 1982, and I think you’re a shit stain on the underpants of journalism. So [...]

Joy of Tech tackles the “slime bucket” comment. Worth a look. See here.

One of our operatives managed to infiltrate the mothership last week and sent out the following photos before being apprehended by Apple security, at which point we lost contact with the source, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Nevertheless the shots provide some insight into life at Apple. First shot, the sideways one, was the last thing [...]

Well, I’m stunned. My phone just rang and I picked up and it was Jerry Yang. He goes, “It’s Jerry Yang. You think I’m an inept nerd who doesn’t know how to run a company, and I think you’re sleazier than a used condom. Got a minute to chat?” He went on to say that [...]

Also striking in this whole fiasco around Steve’s health is the response from the Apple faithful. Check out the comments on this blog for a representative sample. Criticize the PR operation at Apple, or Dear Leader himself, and the Apple faithful swarm out in droves to call you a traitor or worse. My email inbox [...]

Funny thing about Apple is that the company generally gets high marks for the way it manages communications, sticks to its message, remains consistent, maintains its brand image and so forth. But people in the PR business, and reporters who cover Apple, generally don’t think much of the way the company manages PR. “Say nothing” [...]

Here’s an interesting experiment. Imagine what the reaction would be if a different CEO, one who isn’t worshipped as a man-god by a small but vocal portion of the world’s population, did what Steve Jobs just did to Joe Nocera. Imagine, for example, that instead of Steve Jobs we were talking about Steve Ballmer. Imagine [...]

At long last it’s here. Simple pull-down menus let you create your very own Steve Jobs opening line. Hilarious. And addictive. Much love to the geniuses at GeekCulture.com, and to Dear Reader Robert for the tip.

Best part of Joe Nocera’s article from yesterday’s New York Times (“Apple’s Culture of Secrecy”) was, of course, the quote from Steve Jobs, the one where Nocera picks up the phone and Jobs hits him with this opening line: “This is Steve Jobs. You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, [...]