This also goes back to how News Corp has changed the Wall Street Journal since it's acquisition. The quality has deteriorated. And it's shows what News Corp real focus is - it's not news, and it's not really conservative or liberal issues either - it's sensationalism, in any form. Because thats what gets peoples attention.
On Succeeding Steve Jobs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The WSJ doesn’t, but they like scoops because scoops draw traffic and thus, ad revenues. And lots of competitors have an interest in manipulating Apple stock, and they also know that a publisher like the WSJ likes scoops.
Interesting that it doesn't get brought up when the manipulating "story" is all pro-AAPL unicorns and panacea.
Actually it does get brought up regularly. A lot of articles were written last year about how Apple itself fed stories to the Wall Street Journal, for example: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro...
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The sooner we ignore minor details like someone's sexuality, the sooner they become irrelevant.
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#24Cook was palatable to both Wall Street and Apple employees while SJ was on medical leave. IMO, he's passed the test already. Everyone was willing to accept him then, back when there was serious doubt about whether Jobs would return after his leave. So there's no reason why they wouldn't be willing to accept him in a genuine succession event.
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#25In Daniel "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons' book Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, the real Steve hires a stand-in so he can finally take some time off. Are we sure this hasn't already happened? :)
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Except that we don't know if Cook is gay.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting that it doesn't get brought up when the manipulating "story" is all pro-AAPL unicorns and panacea.
Actually it does get brought up regularly. A lot of articles were written last year about how Apple itself fed stories to the Wall Street Journal, for example: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro...
What do Controlled Leaks have anything to do with alleged willful downward stock manipulation attempt by WSJ using a story which was later refuted by Jobs?
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#28Aaron Swartz' response[1] is quite interesting.
> If Apple is to continue, it will be with a tastemaker at the top. And there are no serious candidates besides Ive.
(He remarks on Twitter[2] to Gruber, "I think we had this debate briefly over email many years ago, but nice to revive it in long form in public".)
[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howappleworks [2] https://twitter.com/#!/aaronsw/status/94550094199783425
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Historically, there were probably more gays and such in public life than the history books would suggest. One American president (never married) is thought to have possibly been gay. Lots of historical figures who were very successful were minorities of some sort and hid it and tried to blend: Jewish, Hispanic, etc. They altered their names, dyed their hair, learned to dress more "white" and so on. (Rita Hayworth comes to mind -- half Spanish, dyed her hair blonde and made her name more anglo.)
I wear my health issues and alternative medicine approach to them on my sleeve when online but have gone out of my way to downplay it without lying when at work. There is just not enough time in the day to explain my situation to everyone I interact with for five minutes and it is too distracting. It's not important.
Peace.
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This is indeed something memorable, but considering main stream America's view on homosexuals, I don't think this is something that should be mentioned too often.
Au contraire, this is something that should be mentioned as often as possible. It's time that "mainstream" America realizes that gay people are just as valuable members of society as everybody else.