Breakfast With an Apple Lawyer

So the Ones Who Must Be Obeyed accepted my offer to fly out here but they pushed the schedule up a bit. The guy who talked to my lawyer on the phone last night got on a red-eye to the East Coast and I went to see him this morning in a suite at the Four Seasons, even though my lawyer, Tony Clifton, who lives in New York, could not attend and had told me not to agree to anything but just to listen and hear the guy out and report back to him.

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  • http://www.geekculture.com/ Bruce Evans

    Sad that sooo many people thought this was real, and that it directed a ton of ill-will towards Apple.

    Funny how Dan has become the corporate nightmare he once railed about. :P

  • http://macbeach.blogspot.com Mac Beach

    The fact that so many people failed t get this joke even after repeated hints makes a very strong case…

    I can’t say it better than I already have:

    Whether it was a misguided legal department, the PR department being on vacation or a vindictive Steve Jobs, Apple has succeeded in neutralizing whatever “good guy” image it once had.

    I’m not the only one who thinks Apple will exit the computer business as soon as it can do so without too much embarrassment, so maybe as a phone company, or music publisher they’ll be forgiven for treating fan sites like a cheap date or that tacky one night stand with open source.

    But a three legged stool with one leg removed cannot stand. So presuming Apple’s ability to handle public relations re-awakens, what will they get into next? I mean it’s not like music companies can just hop into the airline business is it?

    (That was a joke. Get it? Get it??)

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