As for the Stockholder meeting affair, I think you’re exploring an area that not many people have come across before. It’s a shame that Apple asked you to make a decision, but I greatly appreciate your keeping your word when it came to not writing about it. Some have criticized your integrity because you both blog and attend the shareholder meeting. I think you’ve shown your integrity is in tact. Apple’s stance is an understandable one I think. Keeping the press out of the meeting helps to maintain order and access for shareholders. There’s no reason that you shouldn’t be able to report on this though. My biggest concern is Apple playing favorites with the press. The press doesn’t like you, they whine to Apple, and Apple thinks “This could blow up in our faces.” Apple likes being the darling of the tech media, and I’m disappointed that they made this request of you.

Apple did not “repress” Daniel, they gave him a choice: be a shareholder in the auditorium, or be a reporter from the viewing gallery. He chose the former, and is continues to honor his word.

I understand Apple’s position. The shareholders’s meeting is, after all, for the shareholders. It’s not a press conference, but it would turn into one if the full-time press could participate by owning a trivial amount of shares. Apple drew a line and asked Dan to pick a side.

To be fair, they only drew a line because the regular tech press was crying foul (and by that, I mean they were crying like little girls, and it was foul). The profession “blogger” is still not considered “journalism”, depending on whom you ask and the time of day.

I find your articles interesting as they usually offer up new angles and insights. The level of detail often astonishes me and I think Apple probably has read a few articles and felt the same? Perhaps that’s why they put the screws to you.

For what it’s worth… the only site I’ve had a comment deleted is this one. There’s that karma thing again. Apple was merely resetting the balance.

On the videos: They are not as good as your writing. Work on exercising that hand. It’s like your brain runs on Flash and stutters whereas your hand runs on H.264. Plus you can’t do aural graphs and charts.

The last video was funny. Mostly your deadpan expression while she indulged herself. I don’t think it went too far at all. By the time it was finished, I was an expert in desktop mouse-driven interfaces vs. the touch/gesture paradigm.

Just gotta laugh in the madness and push sanity back at it all.

Hay comedy is the best way to educate the masses – monty python* sex education skit notwithstanding – Apple in its Eden allowed programmers license to add humor to the OS.
* Clease started a Business education Video Company on that premise.

But you have still not said why you have no license to drive cars!

That goes for Myth 10 as well. I don’t consider your videos boring at all. I think that there are too many cuts and paste, but what you say is what matters to me the most, so please don’t change anything unless is to add more information. The style of your videos has been improving greatly with each iteration and will continue the more you do it.

Anyways, don’t get depressed, there are too many things to be happy about, even if sometimes life simply sucks.

I guess one had to be there to personally determine whether Steve Jobs was arrogant or not. Body language, voice inflection, loudness and tone can change one’s opinion versus just reading a transcript of the event (which I do not have) or your recollections as described above.

I don’t see arrogance based upon your comment, more I see someone who HAS to attend the shareholders meeting and having to answer questions that may be banal, inane and ill thought out. There is only so much time that the heads of the company have to answer questions and long winded responses reduces the time for other shareholders to ask questions. As I recall from other reports on this years meeting, Steve Jobs had to interrupt several long-winded people by asking if they actually had a question to ask.

Either way, Steve Jobs doesn’t suffer fools easily, as has been reported many times. When you are a visionary as he clearly is in guiding Apple from its near collapse a decade ago to where it is today, what some might call arrogance, others might call confidence.

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