Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread mike
No. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Do you think Apple's management isn't trying to find a way out of this crazy corner that their legal department has backed them into? * ** List

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM, TPiwowart...@tjpa.com wrote: Do you think Apple's management isn't trying to find a way out of this crazy corner that their legal department has backed them into? This question presumes that it is solely Apple's legal wing that has set this whole scenario into

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: The lawyers are either employees or consultants. They do not run Apple Corp. unless something is rotten in Cupertino. I've written about imperial IT, many corps have the same problem with Legal. Management does not understand the law

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread TPiwowar
Here is an example of what Apple has to put up with... Apple Boots Developer and his 900 apps. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/apple-dumps-app-developer- and-his-900-apps-from-app-store.ars * ** List info,

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread mike
Once again Tom's reason wins out. Child porn is why apple won't allow Opera to put a web browser on the iPhone. On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:10 AM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: The lawyers are either employees or consultants. They do not

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, TPiwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Aug 9, 2009, at 8:15 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: The lawyers are either employees or consultants. They do not run Apple Corp. unless something is rotten in Cupertino. I've written about imperial IT, many corps have the

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:35 AM, mike wrote: No. Knee jerk WFB reaction. I bet a similar statement from Apple SVP Schiller won't make much of an impression either... Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/phil_schiller_app_store

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread mike
Your believing it's apple's lawyers doing all the evil and apple's directors and ceo are just trying to do what is right is a knee jerk reaction of a MFB. Ridiculous to ban an app because it may display words to somone...um..out there in the ether that might buy an iphone or ipod touch. For

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-09 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:49 PM, mike wrote: Your believing it's apple's lawyers doing all the evil and apple's directors and ceo are just trying to do what is right is a knee jerk reaction of a MFB. I see you didn't read Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store

[CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-08 Thread mike
An interesting essay on what apple was, is and becoming. One theme being that apple has become even more the anti competitive villain then MS ever was. His example being that at it's worst, you could always install another browser on windows, but with the iphone, apple forbids the use of any

Re: [CGUYS] jason calacanis essay on apple

2009-08-08 Thread TPiwowar
On Aug 8, 2009, at 7:33 PM, mike wrote: That is a link to his listerv, you would have to subscribe to read the post, you could unsub after if you like however his posts are few and far so it's not a big deal. I'd post the article here but he requests that any repost be given permission