Apple Friday “emphatically denied” an emailed statement attributed to CEO Steve Jobs and quickly spread by bloggers. In an exchange over frustration with iPhone 4 reception, the head of Apple supposedly replied: “It is just a phone. Not worth it.”
The exchange, originally published by the well-known Boy Genius Report blog, then spread by dozens of other sites, supposedly included this conversation between Jobs and a blogger identified as “Tom”:
Although that last line about the Apple handset being “just a phone” was soon corrected by BGR to reflect the reply came from “Tom,” the AppleInsider blog reported the person had previously attempted to sell the email exchange.
The incident reflects a growing trend by some sites to build news stories based on reputed e-mail comments by Jobs. In the past, Jobs supposedly has sent people email comments on a number of issues, including the expected death of Blu-Ray at the hands of iTunes, product reviews and more. Jobs’ apparent penchant for emails even prodded one fan to create “SentBySteve.com,” a site listing all of the CEO’s email exchanges with Apple customers.
[via AppleInsider, Fortune, and BGR]
