Steve Jobs Tells iPodRip to Change the Name — Not a Big Deal
Steve Jobs sent a curt reply to The Little App Factory, telling them it was not a big deal for them to change their Apple trademark-infringing, iPodRip product name.
Rewind: iPodRip was software designed to pull media off an iPod (no, not for piracy, but to recover files in the event you lost them on the host machine). Apple’s lawyers complained. The Little App Factory’s John Devor wrote a plea for help. Jobs responded in typical fashion.
Long story shorter: iPodRip has been renamed iRip.
Bigger picture: Yes. Steve’s back, baby! The curt reply has returned!
Our only question now: Who’s next?!
[Full text of both emails is up at CrunchGear. Via Gizmodo]
November 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
LOL!!! And he even has a typo! (should be app’s). But I guess we can let that slide since it was sent from his iPhone.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Now let’s see if he can send a “curt reply” to whoever is mismanaging the iPhone app-rejection process.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Do you really believe that Steve Jobs would respond to someone. LOL
November 20th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I know this has nothing to do with the topic, but has Steve Jobs ever been onto this site? I mean did he ever make a comment or something. I’m sure he’s busy and all, but ehhh.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:12 am
@leanna lofte
ouch!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:37 am
I find it funny that he has the faggetty default signature “Sent from my iPhone”. This is probably why the iPhone doesn’t allow different signatures for different email accounts; because Steve Almighty doesn’t use it.
Sorry if I don’t want to respond to customers with “Sent from my iPhone”
November 20th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Well the obvious question is how long till Rene gets the Dread “Change your blog name. Not that big of a deal” email.
And how many jokesters are pecking thi into their phones right now?
November 20th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
And trust Joe McG to introduce an offensive note into the discussion with his use of the term “faggetty”. Misspelled, of course.
Unfortunately, as the saying goes, “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument”.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Lol. Smh.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
If I couldn’t trust people not to post my emails all over the internet, I’d keep them brief too.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
iPhone gave me cancer. =8^(
November 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
@Icebike, I’m waiting for that day too.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Of course it is no big deal. Just like this mail, sent every year for 19 years:
Steve –
Change your company’s name. Not that big of a deal.
John, Paul, George, Ringo
November 20th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Not sure John actually ever wrote an email…
November 20th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I was trying to think of all the cases I knew of where this has happened (which are many, and the dev should suck it up IMO), and I was reminded of one somehow involved with this site, but couldn’t quite remember. Did PhoneDifferent used to be called iPhone Different?
And that led me to wonder, how DO you guys get away with a name like The iPhone Blog?
November 20th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
@KP:
Maybe that’s why Rene feels compelled to play the fawning fanboy…
–me, running and ducking….
November 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
He just had to send it from his iPhone didn’t he.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
That is cool. Atleast he was courteous.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Everyone can complain all they want but, for now, the rules are the rules. Why would Jobs make an exception for one developer? He wouldn’t. Change the name. iRip sounds a million times better anyway. What other kind of response did the developer expect?
BTW – I quite enjoy the iPhone sig. It sounds a lot nicer than “Sent from my Verizon Wireless Blackberry”. Now that’s ***.
November 21st, 2009 at 11:27 am
@obligatoryjoke: That was funny!
I hope the return of Real Steve bodes well for an outstanding iPhone upgrade next summer (don’t shoot your wad on the tablet-thingy that is, or isn’t coming out).
November 21st, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Steve’s reply is entirely consistent with the Apple way: Concise and to the point.
November 21st, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I would have thought Jobs would change the signature. Maybe…
“sent from the iPhone”
November 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pm
We’re just unlucky it didn’t truthfully report:
“Sent from my aluminum unibody iPhone 4G”
If anyone has one…