Steve Jobs Answers Email Via iPad

By Nicole Martinelli (9:55 am, Mar 23 2010)

It’s not easy being Steve Jobs: one minute, you’re the guy behind the world’s most admired company, the next you’re about to become a pin cushion turning a profit for a journalist as a sitcom.

Still, no matter what you think of Jobs, it’s cool that every now and then he takes a few seconds to answer email from everyday users.

He seems to have been busy with a lot of his famous, less-than-a sentence replies lately, but his answer to an Italian blogger at The Apple Lounge may be the first one he’s sent using an iPad. (Up until March 20, he was still using 3.1.2 iPhone OS.)

Nepori fired off an email to (sorry, you need Javascript to see this e-mail address)to know whether he would be able to access the free electronic books already amassed on his library on the iPad.

The one-word answer from Jobs a day later: “Yep.”

So it doesn’t quite count for an elaborate or especially informative answer, but as Nepori told Cult of Mac:

“I have some sad news (especially for my Steve-caressed ego): he didn’t reveal anything special. The iBooks page on Apple.com already says that you’ll be able to sync free eBooks. I was so excited about his answer that I didn’t notice it. My only excuse is that Italy doesn’t have an iBooks page, since iBooks won’t be available for us non-U.S. customers, but I wanted to ask anyway.”

So, even if it wasn’t the heart-to-heart an Apple aficionado might hope for, as Nepori puts it: at least it’s proof he likes the iPad enough to swap his iPhone for it.

Full email header below.

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Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco native who has lived in Milan and Florence, Italy. She's written for Wired.com, The New York Times and Newsweek. You can find her on Twitter , Facebook and Google+.

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Derek
Universal inbox would be great, but what is really needed is ability to move emails offline from one folder to another. My old windows CE would do this, may mac Mail will do this.
Great for airplane trips, etc. having time to clean up and organize folders but not ability to be connected.
Thoughts?
Bob
Jobs responded to an email from his iPad two weeks ago.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/07/according-to-jobs-no-iphone-to-ipad-tethering-10-hour-battery-life-reaffirmed/

http://www.zoomata.com Nicole Martinelli
I did see that — but only the journalist said it, there’s no email header…

Tom smith
I just got my Ipad thanks to the info published in the review, however I was looking for internet service to connect on the road to and I wanted to go with Verizon sorry AT&T but Verizon has coverage everywhere, I found a great deal for Verizon and its even called Verizon49, I got my data card and service from http://3gstore.com/lease Here is the kicker 3gstore.com offered me the data service with no contract no credit checks, and on the Verizon Wireless Network for $49.99 that is lower than buying from Verizon itself, It’s one of the lowest price out in the market and now I am able to connect, Oh yeah….
http://www.atc-distribution.com iphone_addict
Congrats to Steve Job. Now Apple is worth more than Microsoft.
http://www.dayven.com gadgets
I got my iPad, and it’s cool. I use it as my ebook and it’s very convenient. I have also put on cool gadgets for it :) Nice to have one.