Apple makes Fortune's list of bonehead moves (twice), still a best place to work
With the end of the year comes the cavalcade of best and worst lists, just in case you didn't know what was best and what was worst over the course of the year.
Apple made glassdoor.com's list of "50 Best Places to Work," placing 19th. It scored a 3.8 out of five, and 90 percent of employees approved of the job that CEO Steve Jobs was doing. 303 employees completed reviews at the site, contributing to its score. (The reviews themselves are interesting to read, incidentally, if you have a few minutes to kill.)
On the other hand, Apple made Fortune magazine's list of 21 Dumbest Moments in Business for the year, twice -- but the second time really wasn't its fault.
The first head-smacker, at number six, was for the approval (and subsequent removal) of the "I Am Rich" iPhone application. "The real losers?" Fortune asks: "The eight suckers who bought it."
The second blooper, number 19, actually goes to CNN and Bloomberg for two false stories about Steve Jobs' health. Bloomberg accidentally released an obituary on August 28, and retracted it the same day. In a similar gaffe, a post on CNN's iReport site falsely claimed that Jobs had suffered a heart attack. CNN took down the post -- but not after Apple's stock dipped 10 percent in 10 minutes. Ouch.
[Via Macsimum News and MacNN.]
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It's also important to note that CNN's iReport service is user generated content, not something that CNN itself polices on a regular basis. In this case they stepped in and removed it, but in general, it is a lot like YouTube. Do you believe everything you see on YouTube?
As a responsible citizen of Time Warner's extended family, TUAW should have gotten at least this fact correct.
The guy holding up the sign is a "moron," not "moran."
Did no one else catch this?!
Also... the tag for the article is misspelled as well.
I read tuaw news daily and it sucks to see from what I have read that windows fans write the news I want a variety of news but don't come here to read about apples stock or how well it may not do if or after Steve leaves. In short get it together we can find somewhere else to read about apple and any products avaiable if we all leave no one will click the ads to bring in money so aol will have no reason to keep you. Get a grip. The news used to be exciting and uniquely wrote. Maybe compare it to apple stores and a Sony store we go to apple as the atmosphere is better, you lost that recently so why do I need to visit tuaw is the question you should ask?
December 31 2008 at 6:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySadly, a trend I seem to sense in the reviews:
Retail like their jobs, but see it as short term
Apple employees seem to like their work,but pay and management issues as well as workload are a definite problem.
The I am Rich app approval was the sixth dumbest business moment of 2008? Yeah, I'm sure Wall Street lost a lot of sleep over that one this year.
December 30 2008 at 6:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replysujovian out does TUAW and Fortune in one sentence! FTW!!!
December 30 2008 at 3:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOMFG! That picture epitomizes non-Mac people in so many ways...
December 30 2008 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyargh. I've been suckered. From the title, I thought this article would talk about the bonehead mistakes in deployment of Mobile Me and the bonehead move of removing Firewire from the new Macbooks. Instead, I get this crap.
December 30 2008 at 2:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySheesh, what do you guys want. They finally got rid of Erica, isn't that enough?
December 30 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyyeah, seriously, tuaw sucks... i'm only keepin' it because i hope it gets better
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