The closest thing we'll ever get to an official Apple blog

http://stevemail.tumblr.com/

by barredo • 16 years ago

51 22 16 years ago

stevemail.tumblr.com

vark• 16 years ago

I thought the URL for that was http://daringfireball.net :P

w1ntermute• 16 years ago

I actually expected to read a blog post talking about how Gruber's basically become Apple's official blogger in the wake of Steve Jobs replying to an email about the 3.3.1 fiasco redirecting the person he was writing to to Gruber's blog post defending the changes.

cookiecaper3• 16 years ago

To me that email kind of validated the idea that Gruber is a real-life Apple shill. Meaning, on the take from Apple to publish their desired propaganda.

samratjp• 16 years ago

And this guy seems like he could be hired by Apple's Official Blog - "So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"

Bill Gates on the iPad (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/12/ipad-bill-g...)

mikecane• 16 years ago

And I was just wondering if someone was going to think to compile all of those. And now that you are, will he stop answering them?

And oh, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple PR decides to do an "Email to Steve Jobs" section of the Apple site now.

rooshdi• 16 years ago

I think Steve's generally succinct responses would be better acclimated to the Twittersphere. Steve should start tweeting, but I think even he knows his "reality distortion field" defies the laws of the Twitterverse.

mrduncan• 16 years ago

For a little background, John Gruber tweeted "Someone should make a Tumblr site for (and only for) these Steve Jobs email replies." earlier today. It seems a few people have ran with the idea. He's retweeted[1] about 6 of them now, this one seems to be the most complete though.

[1] http://twitter.com/gruber

cookiecaper3• 16 years ago

This will go a long way to stopping Jobs from replying to emails.

johns• 16 years ago

I doubt it. Every email already gets a ton of press. How much higher profile could they be? Jobs knows exactly what he's doing with the responses.

cookiecaper3• 16 years ago

It just seems like, if this catches on, external control of such a dump would threaten Apple's PR department pretty extensively. Perhaps the emails have been excusable heretofore because it's not all that common that they come up and get "tons of press", as you claim, or because they figured those isolated emails that do get attention are relatively harmless and not a big deal as independent, one-off stories.

For instance, I check HN a lot, and I used to check reddit a lot, and I've heard of perhaps only two of these emails. Most of them do not cast Jobs in an overtly positive light. It's a publicist's nightmare, basically, because they lose control of the image.

And Apple is all about image. I don't know, I just think that there will be a lot of internal pressure on Jobs to stop emailing people who may go and repost the conversation verbatim. He might not stop, we all know that Jobs has a general contempt for business-as-usual and does what he wants, but making a thing like this just seems to kind of be "looking a gift horse in the mouth", as it were, because most CEOs have the sense not to even try personal responses to customer complaints or feedback for the reasons mentioned in this post.

asimjalis• 16 years ago

I wish http://www.fakesteve.net/ could be as succinct.

glhaynes2• 16 years ago

Really interesting point. While I love Fake Steve, it's hard now to imagine Real Steve as having so much to say. Minimalism seems to pervade his very being. Will Fake Steve have to change his schtick?

BrandonFletcher• 16 years ago

Awesome.

drawkbox• 16 years ago

I can only dream of being so direct and to the point.

puredemo• 16 years ago

This is usually how I respond to emails as well. Doesn't seem to be an issue.

jluxenberg• 16 years ago

Would be nice if his replies had a signature so we could be sure they actually came from Steve

mattparcher• 16 years ago

From MacStories.net, there are at least five other similar blogs:

http://stevejobsemailreplys.tumblr.com/

http://fromstevejobs.tumblr.com/