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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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one cent for every lie, and i'd be millionaire by now.. (this had to be said and will be worth the massive downvotes)

Also, on a more serious note: Why isn't there a website for all those massive marketing lies about every company throws at the customers, it's sickening.

Sickening? ITS MARKETING. The promise that something will make your life better is rarely true, but we deceive ourselves into thinking so because it helps fulfill the prophecy being told.

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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My wife: "Will you take the trash out?" Me: "Yeah, for sure. I'll take it out tonight." Tonight rolls by and the next day she tells me "You didn't take out the trash. You lied." Did I lie? Or did I have honest intentions of taking out the trash with circumstances getting in the way? Maybe I just forgot? I don't presume to know Jobs' intentions but without a history of lying during presentations I'm going to assume hi…

I view it more as a broken promise than a lie. I do, however, think that both are, morally speaking, on a similar level. Lying is worse but a broken promise isn’t all that much better.

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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He's not in political office. He's not beholden to your or me. Unfortunately they didn't open it. It would be great if they had. But it's just a dead feature. Steve Jobs actual legally binding responsibility is to the share holders that he will make Apple money. Why not reverse engineer FaceTime and release a OpenSource version?

Anyway,if you REALLY want someone to dilly dally with the term "Open", you should get an Android phone.

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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I'm genuinely curious why it even matters whether it's open or not. I get that he said it would be open and now it's not. But beyond that why does it even matter? I can use Tango, Qik, Skype, etc. I think there's an iOS app out there that does Google Talk video. They are even easier because I don't have to explain to my parents how to connect the phone to wifi.

Maybe with the proliferation of all these other video chat apps opening up Facetime became a lower priority?

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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What are your thoughts on this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime#Standards

It would appear that FaceTime is built on top of open standards, is Steve more explicit than that in the original presentation (for example, does he say that access to Apple's FaceTime servers will be available openly, etc.)?

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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one cent for every lie, and i'd be millionaire by now.. (this had to be said and will be worth the massive downvotes)

Also, on a more serious note: Why isn't there a website for all those massive marketing lies about every company throws at the customers, it's sickening.

Good idea. =)

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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I might care more if I'd ever actually observed someone using FaceTime. I have 3 MacBooks, an iPad, an iPhone 4, my coworkers and girlfriend and friends have FaceTime compatible devices too, but I've never seen anyone use it. Maybe they don't open it because it is a dead product.

Re: Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a weekend project. Add rankings and this site could actually change shit

i am actually just searching for a domain right now

I picked up companylies.org

Fairly simple and straight to the point.

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