ian-L: Don't listen to your customers. Lie to them and screw them at every opportunity. After all, they are the enemy. (fwd)

From: cdale@silly.techmonkeys.net
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 17:38:45 PST


r0et has SUCH a love/hate relationship w/ Apple. I'm not much in the know
about it, but I do know Apple's reputation for putting computers in
schools. Old bits, I reckon, but I don't think I saw this here.
C

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 17:05:39 -0800
From: Ian Kasley <ian@kasley.com>
To: Multiple recipients of ian-L <ian-L@kasley.com>
Subject: ian-L: Don't listen to your customers. Lie to them and screw
    them at every opportunity. After all, they are the enemy.

"In June, Apple canceled the contracts with 44 outside companies who
specialized in dealing with schools. In one fell swoop, thousands of
man-years of education sales experience got tossed away. Guess what?
Education sales by Apple are in the tank. So Steve Jobs hired a VP and gave
her a nice office. She is sending out nice coupons for $100 off to schools.
That was such a stupid decision that surely business schools will be using
Apple as a case study for the next hundred years."

"I'll buy my next new computer when I can buy it from a company which
doesn't treat me as if I'm the enemy."

http://www.maccpu.com/cafe/newer.html



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