Comments on: Steve Jobs is Not Asking Me to Blog

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:58:29 +0000

Great post. Until now, Apple has had a phone and retail store only approach to communicating with customers about support issues. I think 37signals does the best job I've seen yet, with their status.37signals.com site, plus email support, plus twitter now. I just recently did a post comparing ways that Apple, Google and 37signals have responded to downtime issues.

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Company Blogs Can Provide Big Insights «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Company Blogs Can Provide Big Insights « — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:02:04 +0000

[...] The bigger companies seem to struggle with this a bit. While I subscribe to the various Google product blogs, I find the are updated much less frequently. Meanwhile, our own Judi Sohn has written about the state of blogging at Apple. [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:37:47 +0000

Oh its a dude. He signs “David G.”

Still, I bet if it turns out that David G. is a real person who actually understands the project, I’ll still bet anyone a buck he vetted all of that stuff through the PR folks.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:36:15 +0000

Seems to me that the difference here is that Apple is protecting its image, while Amazon simply owned up to its mistake and moved on.

I’ll bet any of you a buck that whoever was writing the posts on the Apple blog is some PR functionary, potentially a dude (or dudette) with little tech background. Notice how he repeats the “1% of MobileMe users” in each post — to mitigate concerns that the issue was widespread enough that people who might be thinking of signing up for the service won’t do it.

Also, notice his apparent lack of concern over the fact that the datestamps on peoples’ e-mails got mixed up, and that some users might have lost some mail entirely. That’s totally unacceptable. I wouldn’t let a free service lose my mail — and people are paying for this.

I’m pretty much a “Mac guy” at this point, but I’ll never sign up for this service. The only thing about it I can’t get elsewhere is that it pushes mail to the iPhone, which Gmail can’t do (although I read somewhere they might start soon).

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:53:19 +0000

I guess I’m kind of glad I haven’t signed up for this mobileme yet. haha. It sounds awesome, and very useful, but I was worried about what intense traffic would do to an untested tool like Mobileme. I’ll give it a few more months and then my and my 3G iPhone will probably jump on there.

Jake
NoteScribe: Premier Note Taking Software

By: Andrew B

Andrew B — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:24:26 +0000

The anonymous poster seems to have a name, a new entry has appeared, under the guise of “David G.”.

By: broken memail

broken memail — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:13:59 +0000

It’s about up to the minute insight. It’s about an a small city (200,000 people) with no communication to the outsidw world via email.

If Mac is the primary email address – some are not able to work.

We aren’t asking for up to the minute conferences – but your arrogance is typical of what we see at Apple – complete indifference to the situation and arrogance when prodded regarding why it doesn’t work.

By: rickg

rickg — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:21:08 +0000

True… they should conference you in so you have up to the minute insight…

/sigh

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:34:11 +0000

Agreed Judi – an anonymous posting 2 weeks after the snafu which gives a very high level view of what happened and which promises to post? A couple of times a week would allow them to keep their promise – and that is just not enough.

They are arrogant.

keith