{"id":796,"date":"2007-12-16T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/12\/16\/newsletter-420-preview-apple-and-microsoft-deserve-hardball-questions\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T16:17:32","slug":"newsletter-420-preview-apple-and-microsoft-deserve-hardball-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/12\/newsletter-420-preview-apple-and-microsoft-deserve-hardball-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #420 Preview: Apple and Microsoft Deserve Hardball Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I used to make regular pilgrimages to the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA for a press briefing, Steve Jobs would, on occasion, take questions from the media. Now the personable salesman with the famous \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reality distortion field\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can sometimes take on a hostile demeanor when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s asked a tough question.<\/p>\n<p>Take the time, several years ago, when Jobs was asked about plans to discontinue the poor-selling Cube. He shot back: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and went on to proclaim that Apple was pleased with the sales of its diminutive computer with fashionable molded plastic exterior.<\/p>\n<p>As the press expected, however, the Cube was cut from Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s product list within a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Now it may well be that Jobs really hoped that the Cube could sustain itself in the product line, but, in the end, he had to accept the bad news from his sales department that it just wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t successful. 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