[Leica] OT: video beats photography coverage at the Aussie iPad launch

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Well that went in an unintended direction, I don't read any sinister Apple
behavior into this at all but never mind. It is completely OT now.
I think I recall that you dislike Microsoft and Adobe as well!!
Take me to task off list if you like ;-) ;-)

Go stomp on a few iPods or something , you'll feel better ;-)

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman

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On 28 May 2010 14:48, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> Geoff,
> I see that, and I knew it was posted in a lighter vein by you. But I
> just wanted to make a slightly serious point that this is standard
> Apple behaviour in the second coming of Steve Jobs, and that this sort
> of thing is not the exception, it is the norm.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Jayanand the post was just for fun of course, but its hardly surprising
> when
> > there is a little pushing and shoving amongst the journos to get the best
> > spot at a crowed gathering like this. I laughed when they suggested that
> it
> > was an established tradition that people who got their first were
> entitled
> > to keep their spots over the official film crew.  A gentleman's code of
> > honour with chivalry!
> >
> > Someone's shirt was grabbed when they were trying to push back into the
> > crowd! Quelle Horreur!!! Not quite a riot is it? Pretty clearly to me the
> > security guy exceeded his authority but of course you can't see what the
> > photographers were doing before that either. They were trying to
> re-occupy
> > the spots that they had staked out.  None of that is some sort of
> indictment
> > of Apple's behaviour surely. In any event, the photog involved got
> > some coverage for himself as did the other press who got to grab shots of
> > this and Apple got some more exposure too. All a storm in a teacup. They
> > could have then chosen to boycott the event coverage I suppose, but I
> have a
> > feeling that their employers would not have approved.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 28 May 2010 13:37, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Geoff,
> >> What is so surprising? They do this all the time. Steve Jobs is a
> >> marketing genius, but he is also totally paranoid. This sort of
> >> behaviour is par for the course for Apple.
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
> >> gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > A little argie bargie in Australia at the iPad launch. Maybe the
> official
> >> > crew was using their iPhones.
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/media-assaulted-in-ipad-mayhem/story-e6frg996-1225872420734
> >> >
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Geoff
> >> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >> >
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