Filed under: Macworld, Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
John Mayer's calls to Steve Jobs no longer returned
John, John. OK, dude, behind the sensitive rock star/guitar god front, we know you're a not-so-secret Mac geek. Sure, you jammed out to Message In A Bottle with the Police at Live Earth, but wasn't it just as big a thrill to be onstage for a legendary Stevenote? Wasn't it good, John? Good enough for you?Apparently Mr. "I'm Going To Serenade The Macworld Faithful" has been sneaking around the country with some other company's smartphone. Sure, Blackberry might sponsor your summer tour, and even provide some exclusive photos and video, but we know what kind of mobile device you're keeping in the pocket closest to your heart, with your guitar picks... and its name begins with 'i' and ends with 'one,' if you know what I'm talking about.
*sniff* Two-timing creep. I'm taking all the photos of you down from my locker RIGHT NOW.
Note: Comments have pointed out the striking similarity between this story and Fake Steve's take on the same issue. While I can think of nobody better to flatter by imitation, the deal is this: I wrote this post very early Wednesday morning (about 1:30 am ET), FSJ's post not yet published. My post was published at 11 am ET on Wednesday, and I hadn't read FSJ's post... which is timestamped 6:58 pm, Wednesday 7/11. Even if FSJ's on UK time, that's still well after my post went live. So... let's just go with "great comedy minds think alike" and call it a day, mmmkay? (Much love, FSJ.)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Billy K said 11:07AM on 7-11-2007
Good riddance. He was (is) an embarassment.
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essjaydee said 11:12AM on 7-11-2007
...thats it..... im burning my memory box.
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Brian said 11:15AM on 7-11-2007
Michael, that was a funny post. Thanks.
On a side note, Mayer's blog is a pretty good read sometimes.
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karo said 11:32AM on 7-11-2007
That is funny.
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Fred said 11:39AM on 7-11-2007
You know he's only carrying that thing so he can have his Sting
ringtones. OW BURN! I'm actually really happy with my iPhone, and
am waiting for the day that I can use my own music for ringers.
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isky said 11:56AM on 7-11-2007
i went to his concert at the hollywood bowl about a month ago. yeah, the blackberry sponsorship was everywhere...but he still came out and did a song with a black guitar that had a big white apple sticker on the front of it.
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Matt Bland said 12:04PM on 7-11-2007
The deal for the tour sponsorship was probably signed before the announcement of the iPhone. He's probably stuck with it and contractually bound not to endorse, or be seen to endorse, a competitive product.
I know John is a big Apple fan. It's just a shame that SJ couldn't have given him the heads up on the iPhone before it was made public.
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bobvilla said 12:13PM on 7-11-2007
Family Guy got it right when they said "That's enough John Mayer"
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Snowmobile said 12:37PM on 7-11-2007
I don't think Steve and John are sleeping in seperate bedrooms just yet, because yesterday I got a mail from iTunes stating:
"iTunes has an exclusive recording from this weekend's worldwide Live Earth concert: John Mayer performing his fittingly titled "Waiting On the World to Change". The breezy funk of the track and Mayer's heartfelt delivery take on extra poignancy in this context. You can get this track alone or pre-order the upcoming Live Earth album and receive the track now."
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derek said 12:45PM on 7-11-2007
NO ONE CARES!!!!!!!
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Billy K said 12:50PM on 7-11-2007
Two words that should never lie adjacent..."breezy" and "funk."
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ruganlutula said 12:57PM on 7-11-2007
So this article doesn't actually report what the headline implies: that Mayer has tried to contact Jobs, to no avail. Instead, it just points out that Blackberry is sponsoring Mayer. Nothing more, nothing less.
Nice way to mislead us. Although you've been doing that for quite some time, now, huh?
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Juan Pablo Pincheira said 12:58PM on 7-11-2007
that's sad.
at least we know he loves apple. but he needs to live too, he needs that level of promotion that blackberry is giving him
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Michael Rose said 12:59PM on 7-11-2007
#12 -- you think I really know if John Mayer is trying to call Steve Jobs?
For your future reference, "X's calls no longer returned by Y" is a humorous way of implying a rift among friends (cf. HBO's Entourage). This post is meant to be funny. Sorry you didn't pick up on the joke.
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Paul said 1:16PM on 7-11-2007
Has anyone listened to John Mayer since his first album? For a "guitar god", he sure is boring.
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Ryan said 1:24PM on 7-11-2007
Oh come on, is Steve Job really that petty? It's not like he just kicked his dog or worse. So he's using a BlackBerry. Whoop dee doo. If he cuts off a friend for that. I'm losing some respect for Steve.
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andy said 1:26PM on 7-11-2007
I'll be catching him in Boston next week, I'll be sure to direct him to this post.
His latest album, Continuum is pretty fricking awesome, by the way.
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duestown said 2:11PM on 7-11-2007
Hear that, Michael Rose? It's the sound of Jimi Hendrix's ghost making plans to smite you for calling John Mayer a "guitar god."
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Bab said 2:40PM on 7-11-2007
Wow, you directly copied this story from from Fake Steve. TUAW has really been sucking lately.
Original article:
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/john-mayer-you-are-dead-to-me.html
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Raphael Salgado said 2:45PM on 7-11-2007
From what I heard, his IP is banned from getting any Mac OS X Software Updates, too. Pity. ;)
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