Jobs: “We’re Doing The Best We Can” on iPad International Launch. Don’t Think So? You’re Nuts!

John Brownlee (4:09 am PDT, Apr 16 2010)

Jobs: “We’re Doing The Best We Can” on iPad International Launch. Don’t Think So? You’re Nuts!

We like our Steve Jobs slightly grumpy, so after his humorous prosaic experiment with Californian surfer lingo yesterday, it’s nice to see him get back to keeping it real: namely, by calling a potential customers nuts.

Posted over at MacStories, Swiss Apple enthusiast Paul Shadwell sent this email to Jobs, unwisely hinting at an international iPad conspiracy:

Dear Mr Jobs

On behalf of the international community of Apple consumers I would like to protest at the way Apple is apparently leaving us out in the cold with the Apple iPad product.

We have been fed either misinformation or no information at all and it is starting to cast doubt over Apple’s intents, at least it is to me.

I live in Switzerland and as yet we have no idea what the Apple iPad will cost here, if it is anything like the international pricing we have been used to to date on other Apple products, then it will certainly not be an “unbelievable price” as stated in your marketing.

If the delays and lack of pricing information is due to Apple doing it’s level best, to make sure that we are not being ripped off, then I applaud that work. However, as previously mentioned, I am doubting this.

Twice to my knowledge you have falsely stated international availability of the iPad and while I do not believe this is any fault of your own, I can imagine that you are not happy being shown as deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes.

This is what you said at the iPhone OS4.0 announcement.

Jobs’ angry but common sense reply:

“deliberately pulling the wool over the rest of the worlds eyes”

Are you nuts? We are doing the best we can. We need enough units to have a responsible and great launch.

Then he ripped out Shadwell’s spine and flossed with it, Mortal Kombat style.

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12 comments »

  • Thom

    Serve you right.

  • http://Haztea.com Tyson

    I want a father figure like Steve.

  • Steven (UK)

    lol. Great. Ever heard of the grey market? Got mine, thanks ;o)

  • Joseph

    Why the hell would Apple want to mislead buyers in other countries about the launch date? It’s amazing Jobs responded to that nonsense.

  • Frederic

    That’s my Steve !!
    Yaattaaaaa !

  • http://www.myspace.com/adityamendiratta Aditya

    hahaha… Job is just amazingly amazing… I never thought of ever having a mobile phone where i could watch movies all day or while travelling to work.

    Its amazing how he manages and innovates.

  • Chuck E. Cheeze

    Steve looks like he should be shooting Force Lightning from his fingertips. That would be cool.

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Benjamin

    longest eevr reply from steve to a customer!

  • charli

    love how Paul tries to speak for everyone. don’t. speak for yourself, thank you.

    Also, clearly Paul doesn’t get that it’s not as easy as Apple just tossing darts at a map or pulling prices out of the air. Every country has its own import rules, taxes etc. Apple has to settle all of that, plus all the FCC type stuff before they can ship units much less sell them. Israel being an example.

    Good thing most folks overseas that deal with US companies and their products do understand all this

  • ig

    oh Mortal Kombat style? no way..

    CMON come to Oz iPads..

    or .. FATALITY ;P

  • mark

    While I wait here in the UK is there any chance of a hi-res version of that picture for my desk top.

  • Rubber Johnny

    Typical Brownlee hit whore tactics. Turn around the sequence and distort what was actually said.
    As Steve would say

    Bozo

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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