Apple's new iPod chief ordered to stop working
By Nilay Patel 
posted Nov 9th 2008 2:28PM
posted Nov 9th 2008 2:28PM
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Steve Jobs kills kittens to make ipods? o.O
That, and just for fun sometimes. Why do you think they need to clean his Benz? All that fur stuck in the tires isn't very classy.
Poor lil' cute cats...
No. They're STILL ALIVE.
That's why they purr.
On all future iPods: No kittens were harmed in the production of this iPod.
The guy to Jobs' left looks like he could be his tougher and younger iClone.
that's johnathan ive. some speculate that he will be the next steve jobs.
He was, after all, designed with that in mind
I speculate that you need to learn left and right. It's Paul Schiller, SVP Marketing.
Left? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I think the confusion is the difference between "left of Jobs" and "to Jobs' left". To the left, would be the one left from our perspective. To Jobs's left would be the one on his right from our perspective.
I think the OP mixed those two up, I assume he is referring to the one left of Jobs.
Yah.. when I saw that picture I thought it was some random person with a photoshoped face of Jobs..
that's Jason Statham, and if you look at an iPod the wrong way... it's all over, pal.
Papermaster... sounds like some old brand of stapler.
I think he should have gotten a job at Xerox. He would have become CEO on the first day with that name :).
No, the kitten is still alive, suffering while you jab it with your fingers!
NICE, he just giving apple all of IBM's trade secrets $$$$$$ which pays
Trade secrets? You mean those that haven't change since the introduction of the RAMAC in 1956?
IBM doesn't really have that many trade secrets in common with Apple. Perhaps more, now that Apple owns PA-Semiconductor that also makes PowerPC chips from IBM/Motorola's open specs, but that's about all. IBM doesn't spec stuff as small as iPods anyway, they're not in that market even though they might choose to use similar chips. PA doesn't do manufacturing, they outsource that...again to somebody that would pay. This would be IBM sticking to keep those non-competes in place, come hell or high water, pure bureaucracy at it's finest.
Paid vacation? Yes, please.
I wish I would get ordered to stop working and still get paid. hot damn!
where did this picture come from?
where can we get a bigger version of that picture with jobs and his design crew but without the x on fadell?
http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2005/0510/jobs_ep.jpg
The Papermaster in all his papery goodness:
http://images.theage.com.au/ftage/ffximage/2008/11/05/faddell1.jpg
Hah. Obviously I don't read picture captions correctly. That was the iPod VP, Tony Fadell.
He's the one Apple's replacing. At least trying to...
He prolly only takes the carcasses of kittens we kill from, well, you know....
Ah, so IBM is the gatekeeper.
Laughed out loud, everyone around thinks I'm crazy. Thanks.
Making iPods is serious business.
No, Making iPods is serious FUCKING business!
Unfortunately for Papermaster, the tortuous act of breeching a contract is, in fact, srs biz. haha
Oh nooooo, he's going to give away all of IBM's revolutionary MP3 Player and Phone designs! Word has it they're even designing a laptop, and tha... oh wait, they sold that to Lenovo.
cats in iPods?
iPussies!
not really.
Sure about Kittens? Last time I checked, it was actually Pterodactyls brought back through Time Machine
Yeah, I heard that too...
Who cares about that guy. Who's that other bald one next to Jobs? Hmmm..?
It's his evil twin brother who actually eats and presumably works out once in a while.. also he doesn't like black turtleneck shirts with jeans from what I saw.. also it is said that he is to take over Apple..
But those are all just rumors!
I don't really understand how IBM and Apple are competing companies anyway. Do they have any overlapping products whatsoever? Papermaster is only in charge of iPods and iPhones, and I know IBM isn't in those industries, so how can a non-compete order apply?
The problem is that Apple bought PA Semiconductor, a company that produced PowerPC processor designs. This is most certainly an area in which IBM competes in.
There are rumours that Apple bought PA Semiconductor with the intention of having them design a processor for next generation iPhones/iPods, and this is probably what IBM is reacting to.
That is a great surname though.
....sweet corporation drama
Yeah, it's better than daytime soaps... And kittens... Combined...
IBM is in a serious mess right now. They're leading the charge in outsourcing EVERYTHING they do to India, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, "third world" nations in eastern Europe and others. Their only commodity left which is worth the invested capital are its people and they've been slipping on retention, employee benefits, workload management, and personal growth for over a decade now. IBM has lived past its prime and it's evident in the next round of massive quarterly layoffs right around the corner. This guy just happened to jump before his risers were slashed. Mega-corporation contracts are the only thing keeping that company afloat and while the executives brag about record quarters the actual delivery of service is hanging on by a shoestring due to bloated management structures, bureaucracy which would baffle those in DC, and staggering mismanagement of costs. Hanging onto their talent is only going to prove harder and harder in the coming months and years and congressional bailouts will aim a laser-beam focus on Palmisano and his cronies as they start to pull gilded ripcords. Papermaster is right -- IBM has sold off its consumer PC to the Chinese and never had any serious skin in the PMP game, there's no true conflict at all, unless you mark success as a conflict. What IBM excels at, however, is retaining an army of litigators, bean-counters (of which I was one), and decades-entrenched talons in the necks of nearly every wrinkled business executive in the nation. Since Apple moved away from the PowerPC platform, IBM no longer has any real-world traction with which to pursue Apple's new exec but they are sure not going to let the guy go without some kind of settlement. Go Mark Go!
I would only have one comment for the dumbass judge, GFY! Unless there is a warrant, I would keep on working.
Yeah, he's just a U.S. District court judge, what can he do, anyway? Oooooh, scary.
*facepalm*
I thought only Chuck Norris had kitten morphing abilities, huh