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I actually don't support this behind closed door meeting with reporters. Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part o

I actually don't support this behind closed door meeting with reporters. Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience. This is a leadership error in my eyes and seems like a decision made by community.

objclxt 10y ago
> behind closed door meeting with reporters ...the link is to a full transcript of the meeting. Sure, you weren't personally invited, but hardly a secretive off the record briefing. > Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters, and Apple pre-announced the Intel transition many months before it actually happened. Jobs would happily tell you what was coming down the line when it suited him to do so.
- FireBeyond 10y ago
  > After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters And yet to this day there are people who will insist that there was no controversy and it was just a bunch of troublemakers who were anti Apple and that Apple was just being generous to appease them.
bredren 10y ago
Except in controlled leaks and antennaegate.
edko 10y ago
Apple is no longer a cult, so it is natural that its leaders act more like normal business people than like prophets who come down from the mountain heights, once or twice a year, to enlighten the world with product revelations. Apple is the market leader, and its pro customers are losing faith. Giving some assurance about the future is the least its management could have done. In my opinion, it should have happened even much earlier.
- scarface74 10y ago
  If the iPhone 4 design was as bad as people made it out to be, how did the GSM iphone 4 sell for over 4 years without any modifications to the design?
jpalomaki 10y ago
Probably this was not something Apple wanted to do, but felt they had to do. While the pro segment is small, it is very vocal. Without this expectation management maneuver, we would have been waiting for something to happen on the Mac Pro side at each of the following launch events - and then the feeling disappointed when they did not deliver.
- nodesocket 10y ago
  You make a good point, and can appreciate the strategy if this was the case.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  Exactly and with thoughts from the vocal pro side compounding over the next 1-2 years... better to address it now and make it clear that they're listening.

objclxt 10y ago

> behind closed door meeting with reporters ...the link is to a full transcript of the meeting. Sure, you weren't personally invited, but hardly a secretive off the record briefing. > Steve always ran things incredibly tight lipped, no need for transparency that's part of the Apple experience After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters, and Apple pre-announced the Intel transition many months before it actually happened. Jobs would happily tell you what was coming down the line when it suited him to do so.

FireBeyond 10y ago
> After the controversy about the iPhone 4's antennas he did a very similar briefing to this with a number of reporters And yet to this day there are people who will insist that there was no controversy and it was just a bunch of troublemakers who were anti Apple and that Apple was just being generous to appease them.

bredren 10y ago

Except in controlled leaks and antennaegate.

edko 10y ago

Apple is no longer a cult, so it is natural that its leaders act more like normal business people than like prophets who come down from the mountain heights, once or twice a year, to enlighten the world with product revelations. Apple is the market leader, and its pro customers are losing faith. Giving some assurance about the future is the least its management could have done. In my opinion, it should have happened even much earlier.

scarface74 10y ago
If the iPhone 4 design was as bad as people made it out to be, how did the GSM iphone 4 sell for over 4 years without any modifications to the design?

jpalomaki 10y ago

Probably this was not something Apple wanted to do, but felt they had to do. While the pro segment is small, it is very vocal. Without this expectation management maneuver, we would have been waiting for something to happen on the Mac Pro side at each of the following launch events - and then the feeling disappointed when they did not deliver.

nodesocket 10y ago
You make a good point, and can appreciate the strategy if this was the case.
tedmiston 10y ago
Exactly and with thoughts from the vocal pro side compounding over the next 1-2 years... better to address it now and make it clear that they're listening.