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“Steve Jobs Would Have Never Released iOS 6 Like This”

You have failed your readers when that’s the headline for your story. Remember the first version of OS X? Yeah, that was Steve. Do some actual reporting.



  • http://twitter.com/Awax Awax

    “If Steve Jobs was alive, would he have introduced Apple Maps with rough edges?” Like MobileMe that was perfect and polished from day one.

  • Leon Speegle

    They’re gonna keep doing it as long as y’all keep linking to it.

    • http://twitter.com/jgpmolloy John Molloy

      Forbes are on an Anti-Apple run recently. About 4-5 articles a week with this same slant.

  • http://twitter.com/kipb Kip Beatty

    Generally speaking, any writer/blogger/site that pins a current product’s (Aperture, iPhone, AppleTV, etc) shortcomings (real or perceived) on the death of Steve Jobs immediately goes in my “never read again/do not follow” list.

  • http://twitter.com/abdoradus abdoradus

    Steve Jobs would have never read a rag like Forbes.

  • Curtis Something

    The best ergonomically designed mouse EVER – paraphrase of Jobs introducing the puck mouse with the original iMac.

    The more time passes from his death, the higher the pedestal and the dimmer the mistakes on the collective memory of most people.

    • EVula

      To be fair, this happens with a LOT of people after they die, not just Steve Jobs.

    • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

      You realize Jobs didn’t build the mouse, right? He commissioned it to be built but it was the genius of a worker he employed.

      Agreed…the collective memory dims and lines get blurred.

    • http://www.thediceguys.com Dean Lewis

      I know I’m in a minority of probably one, but I actually liked the puck mouse. It worked for how I like to hold a mouse: with my finger tips. Held by the side, it got twisted around everywhere. Pushed with fingertips, it seemed to work just fine. But, like I said, I was in a super minority :)

  • Matt W

    Steve released Siri in beta (Still in beta as far as I can tell).

    Why does everyone pretend like the old maps app didn’t suck. Anyone who previously used their phone for driving directions had to have another app.

    They must still have it. The two I have still work fine.

    • Steven Fisher

      Not to mention Google Maps are wildly inaccurate. Ugh. I can’t wait for the new maps to start improving. It should get better than Google Maps ever was within hours.

      • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

        Hilarious. I’ll see you in a few hours. lmbo!

  • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

    Siri.

    Yeah…he would’ve released it.

  • Mjcp

    The headline refers to “iOS6″ but the article refers only to the Maps app, as if they were one and the same. Idiotic.

    • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

      It is one of the major features they tout, just saying.

  • wilbur

    Lousy headline. And the “What would Steve have done” angle is lame as well.

    But to be fair, the first version of OS X was the first version of OS X. This is the sixth iteration of iOS, and the Maps app is a regression in function no matter how you look at it. Granted, putting it into play may be the only way to improve the database based on user input, but in the meantime it’s not going to be as good as an experience as the last version of the Maps app was.

  • http://ComicsPundit.com/ Shawn L.

    Additional Dick-Move points for this closing:

    “Full disclosure: Subscribers to The Arora Report are long Apple from $131 and have taken partial profits at $360, $525, $629 and $568.”

    A disclosure should be about any potential conflicts that the author has. Here, he’s bragging that his subscribers are making money. I hope Forbes is charging him for the advertising.

  • http://www.thegraphicmac.com/ JimD

    What most of these “Steve Jobs would XYZ” writers don’t know or understand is that Steve worked on the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 before he passed away. While I’m sure he would have liked Maps to be in better shape today, it’s not like Apple just whipped up this OS update and Map app in the last few months.

    The other part they don’t get is that the only people bitching about it are people who just like to find things to bitch about. Yeah, the Map app isn’t in great shape. But I submit that if you walk around all day with the need for a map app with fly-overs, 3D street views and 100% accurate directions to get you to the train station you go to EVERY DAY to get to work, you have bigger problems than Apple could ever solve.

    • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

      True and they said this was a 5 year project so yeah…he had his hand in it.

    • lucascott

      Not to mention very possibly every product for the next ten years to one degree or another. Tech is not a fast business after all.

      And in the end it is worth remembering that Apple is not Steve Jobs anymore. What he would have done is moot. It’s Tim Cooks Apple now and if you don’t like that then sell your shares and go buy something else for your computer etc

  • http://www.foppishdrunk.com/ Foppish Drunk

    “If I were still in my previous life of consulting with CEOs, and Tim Cook were to hire me”

    That’s a dirty great big “if”, dude… Reporting sloppy as warm pigs**t.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rickyackel Rick Yackel

    The biggest disappointments to me is the fact that Apple didn’t admit to the failure that is Siri. Siri is frustration 60% of the time. They should label Maps as Beta. They give you a big warning when you install though. I looked for a long standing restaurant in Winnipeg and Maps couldn’t find it. Google Maps on my iPad 1 found it quickly. I’ll be verifying my routes with google before I head out on the road.

    • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

      Siri should be better with LTE, if the servers can handle the increased usage.