Apple’s reclusive CEO Steve Jobs, while usually just as mysterious as the company he runs, occasionally grants the general populous an insight into his thoughts and feelings via personal replies to emails sent to his publicly-available email address (sjobs@apple.com, if you want to try your luck).
These replies, always abrupt and usually condescending, usually come at times when Apple is facing outside pressure due to their often-controversial operating practises. Most recently we saw an email coming from the desk of Jobs to an iPhone user concerned that Apple is tracking their location. The terse reply, addressing whether Google employ similar tracking measures, read –
“Oh yes they do. We don’t track anyone. The info circulating around is false. Sent from my iPhone.”
Now Apple’s SVP of Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, seems to be attempting to emulate his boss and has dished out some choice advice via Twitter to a user wondering about the size difference between the black iPhone 4 and it’s new white sibling.
The minuscule but existent size differential has been widely documented already, and is leading to some users having trouble fitting their existing iPhone 4 cases on the new model. However within the Apple Chocolate Factory they’ve obviously decided the problem doesn’t exist. Schiller’s twitter reply, verified by 9to5Mac, reads –
“It is not thicker, don’t believe all the junk that you read”
Short and to the point? Check. Dismissive and condescending? Check. All that’s missing is a “Sent from my iPhone” and this composition could have been a Jobs original.
