∞ Apple: Jobs conversation with customer is a fake

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been emailing with customers for the last several months, but Apple said an email exchange with a customer reported on today is a fake.

Reported by Boy Genius Report, the email conversation between an irate customer, “Tom,” and Steve Jobs never happened, according to Fortune. In the email exchange, Jobs supposedly told the customer to “Calm down,” “Stay tuned,” and “Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it.”

AppleInsider’s Daniel Eran Dilger was the first to raise questions about the email exchange when he revealed earlier today that they were contacted by Jason Burford two days ago, offering to sell the conversation to them.

It’s not clear if BGR purchased the conversation from Burford or if it was given to them.


  • http://Alittlegoesalongways Daniel Swanson

    I think Jobs’ terse e-mail responses provide a nice personal touch along with a voice of authority. I enjoy reading the valid ones.

    Based on how the man speaks in keynotes, these authentic e-mails make sense and seem to fit with his character. So you can kind of tell when they become “un-terse” that he must not have said that.

    I don’t think he’d let himself get baited into “running off at the keyboard”, so to speak.

  • zisel

    No, you are getting all worked up over a few days of rumors. Calm down.

  • http://mangochut.net mangochutney

    This is beyond stupid. Selling an email conversation to tech sites?
    The best thing about this is this quote from the post over at BGR:
    “We have verified the email headers and information, and believe this exchange to be 100% legitimate.”

    Header forgery FTW is all I have to say to this.

  • http://slrman.wordpress.com/ James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil

    Steve Jobs would never say, “Calm down”. He is smart enough to know that and, “grow up” are two statements that not only do not work, but are almost guaranteed to make someone even more angry. So, calm down and grow up. There surely must be more important things to discuss?