Another week, another terse email from Steve Jobs
9to5Mac has posted an email sent to them from a UK reader where Steve Jobs again calls it as he sees it. The UK reader emailed Jobs to ask if the iPad's Photos app would support Google's Picasa library format. Jobs' reply was a little more than a simple "no" this time. Perhaps that's because he saw it as an opportunity to smack Google again. "No," Jobs replied, "but iPhoto on the Mac has much better Faces and Places features."So there you go, no Google Picasa library support for you! Picasa's facial recognition feature was launched in September 2008, four months before Apple introduced support for facial recognition in iPhoto '09 with the release of the iLife '09 suite in January 2009.
An interesting note on the email: 9to5Mac posts the entire header information confirming that the email is in fact from Steve Jobs and was sent from his iPhone. The header information reveals that Steve hasn't upgraded to the latest iPhone OS. He's still using 3.1.2.
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9to5Mac has posted an email sent to them from a UK reader where Steve Jobs again calls it as he sees it. The UK reader emailed Jobs to ask...
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He hasn't upgraded to 3.1.3 yet because that's one of the lesser used of his 7 iPhones, and his personal servant hasn't gotten around to updating it! :D
Or, maybe, he just hasn't synced in a while. :P
@RyanR said 2:17PM on 3-22-2010
"But I'm not running a $50Billion company ;)"
Neither is Steve!
At the moment Apple is a $204+ Billion company!
they're talking revenue which for 2009 was in the area of $49B USD.
March 22 2010 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySteve isn't running 3.1.2 - he's running 4.0. The version of MobileSafari in the latest iPad simulator can attest to this - for a non-iPad device, it replaces "iPhone OS 4_0" with "iPhone OS 3_1_2" and sets the firmware version to 7D11 for the user agent. I would imagine the e-mail client has exactly the same setup.
It's been my experience that faces on Picasa worked better than iPhoto.
March 22 2010 at 11:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyIs it possible that Steve's liver transplant came from a donor who was frightened to death by a Barney Google comic?
Yesterday I sent Steve an email asking, "How can I import compact flash cards on the iPad?"
Imagine my surprise when he replied, "I'm running a 50 billion dollar company here. Figure it out on your own."
I can forward the email headers to anyone who doubts it's authenticity.
Thanks for my first great laugh of the morning!
March 22 2010 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyEpic response. :)
You deserved that!
The only thing that makes it seem like there not from steve himself to me are the fact that it comes from iphone, can you imagine how many emails steve gets at that address, if push were on it would resemble that at&t add where the guy tries to facebook everyone on the network.
even if push were off it would take hours to download the headers.
i guess someone could go through the emails and manually forward to a private address, but then its not really steve picking emails to respond to, just apple making it look random
Why is everything Steve says called "terse"??
March 22 2010 at 9:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBecause it is. Instead of long, detailed answers he (often) gives one-sentence replies. "Terse" means "brief", and that's Steve.
March 22 2010 at 9:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI find it higly unlikely that Steve Jobs are writing these emails, I would imagine he had better things to do than answer random customers.
March 22 2010 at 8:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyit's not unheard of. he has been known to reply directly sometimes. does the email above sound like it came from his office (assistant). given the brevity and tone... who else could it be?
Haha. Steve likes to multitask on his iPhone too. Hypocrite.
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