{"id":729,"date":"2006-04-19T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:30:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:30:36","slug":"apple-makes-little-girl-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/04\/19\/apple-makes-little-girl-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Makes Little Girl Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Overlawyered.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In California, nine-year old Shea O’Gorman wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggesting changes that she thought might improve the iPod. The letter she got back from an Apple senior counsel, advising her of the company’s policy against considering unsolicited ideas, was brusque enough to reduce her to tears. Following bad publicity, Apple apologized to Miss O’Gorman and says it is revising its policies on communicating with children. The policy against considering unsolicited ideas, of course, “is designed to protect Apple from future patent lawsuits should submitted ideas ever be used.” (“Apple legal makes little girl sob”, MacWorld UK, Apr. 17<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Way to go, Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In California, nine-year old Shea O’Gorman wrote a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs suggesting changes that she thought might improve the iPod. The letter she got back from an Apple senior counsel, advising her of the company’s policy against considering unsolicited ideas, was brusque enough to reduce her to tears. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fun-stuff","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":868,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/01\/microsoft-comments-on-the-iphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":729,"position":0},"title":"Microsoft comments on the iPhone","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A satirical translation of a comment on Microsoft's response to the iPhone.","rel":"","context":"In "tech"","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4088,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2012\/09\/25\/why-i-love-my-apple-tv\/","url_meta":{"origin":729,"position":1},"title":"The Quest for the Perfect Media Player – or, Why I Love my Apple TV","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve long struggled to find the perfect media device for my home \u2013 something that can bring together the vast collection of digital media that I have saved mainly on my desktop computer. 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