"Hey, It's Steve Jobs on the phone!"

SpanishJoe · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:05 PM

From the Ottawa Citizen, 2004/07/22:

	Quote:
	Out of the blue When Kevin Britten bought a song from Apple Computer Inc.’s iTunes Music Store recently, he got a surprise phone call from none other than Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs. The call came out of the blue early Monday morning about 20 minutes after Britten, a 20-year-old college student in Hays, Kan., logged on to his computer and bought about a dozen songs from iTunes. The call woke up Britten’s father, who then handed the phone to his son at around 12:45 a.m. with the words, “Steve Jobs is on the phone.” The younger Britten says he almost didn’t know what to think. “I thought it was a joke,” he says. It turns out that Britten’s purchase of the song Somersault by Zero Seven was the 100 millionth song download from iTunes. In commemoration, Apple had decided to give away a brand-new Powerbook laptop, a 40-gigabyte iPod digital music player and a gift certificate for an additional 10,000 free songs from iTunes. Jobs also wanted to call the lucky winner. The two chatted for a few minutes about computing and music, says Britten, who is a lifelong user of Apple’s Macintosh computers. At the end of the conversation, Jobs gave Britten his e-mail address and invited him to get in touch. Britten says he was flabbergasted by the call, and immediately rang his friends to tell them about the incident. “I didn’t know if I was more excited that I’d won, or that I’d got a call from Steve Jobs,” he says.

My points for discussion are:

1) If SJ were to call you, what questions would you ask him?

2) Would you have actually believed that it was SJ on the phone?

3) Of an account of 10,000 songs, what album would you download first?

-SJ.

TroutMaskReplica · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:16 PM

i'd ask him if apple was going to get the imac right this time around.

headless and not outrageously priced.

i'd tell him to fire his ad agency (the one they use for the mac line) and tell him to run more tv spots.

if he hasn't hung up on me yet i'd also tell him he's doing a fantastic job at apple. just fix the advertising problem and the imac problem.

Ryan1524 · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:17 PM

i just hope i can still talk and not make an ass of myself while talking to him. [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]

lucky bastard.

RC51Pilot · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:25 PM

For once I think I agree with TMR - but I'd ask him why he's such a knob first.

As for the album, I dunno, I guess I'd just start at the top of the charts and work my way down (Skipping over the like of Britney Spears et al.)

farfisa · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:25 PM

Good point TMR--why would anyone buy anything from Jeff Goldblum?

Ryan1524 · Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:55 PM

yea. a headless iMac would be nice. i've always wodnered. they can make nice videos for the keynotes, why can't they air those. or at least a condensed version of those.

Ingenu · Jul 22nd, 2004, 01:11 PM

I'd ask him how many black turtleneck he has in his wardrobe.

Mantat · Jul 22nd, 2004, 01:58 PM

Eh.. ask him for a tour of the office as a bonus reward!

And ask for a job...

MacDaddy · Jul 22nd, 2004, 02:00 PM

I would ask him when the **** he was going to bring the iTunes music store to Canada, I mean, He said it was going to be over a year ago now!!!!

Kosh · Jul 22nd, 2004, 02:41 PM

Well, after asking him to deliver my G5 that I'm waiting for right away, I'd probably ask for a tour of the campus too.

Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:16 PM	#2
TroutMaskReplica Honourable Citizen Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 3,355	i'd ask him if apple was going to get the imac right this time around. headless and not outrageously priced. i'd tell him to fire his ad agency (the one they use for the mac line) and tell him to run more tv spots. if he hasn't hung up on me yet i'd also tell him he's doing a fantastic job at apple. just fix the advertising problem and the imac problem. __________________ intel iMac 20" dual core 2 ghz, Dual 1.25ghz MDD

Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:17 PM	#3
Ryan1524 Full Citizen Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 244	i just hope i can still talk and not make an ass of myself while talking to him. [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] lucky bastard. __________________ Ryan

Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:25 PM	#4
RC51Pilot Full Citizen Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: -.-- -..- ..- Posts: 575	For once I think I agree with TMR - but I'd ask him why he's such a knob first. As for the album, I dunno, I guess I'd just start at the top of the charts and work my way down (Skipping over the like of Britney Spears et al.) __________________ -= You haven't lived until you have ridden a 90kph hairpin with your knee scraping and nothing but a few millimetres of cowhide between you and the asphalt. =- iPad 32Gb WiFi MacBook 2.0GHz C2D/2Gb/160Gb MacBook Pro 2.2GHz C2D/4Gb/320Gb iMac 20" 2.0Ghz C2D/4Gb/250Gb + 23inch Cinema Display (DVI) 16Gb White iPhone 3G

Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:25 PM	#5
farfisa Full Citizen Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 661	Good point TMR--why would anyone buy anything from Jeff Goldblum? __________________ "I've been known to have a drink to celebrate falling down."--Carolyn Mark

Jul 22nd, 2004, 12:55 PM	#6
Ryan1524 Full Citizen Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Toronto Posts: 244	yea. a headless iMac would be nice. i've always wodnered. they can make nice videos for the keynotes, why can't they air those. or at least a condensed version of those. __________________ Ryan

Jul 22nd, 2004, 01:11 PM	#7
Ingenu Full Citizen Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Montréal Posts: 350	I'd ask him how many black turtleneck he has in his wardrobe. __________________ iBook 900 12.1 (384 MB RAM), Canon i450 printer, Epson Perfection 1660 scanner, Alcatel SpeedTouch 510 modem, OS X 10.3.3, Sony DSC-P52 camera

Jul 22nd, 2004, 01:58 PM	#8
Mantat Full Citizen Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Montreal Posts: 435	Eh.. ask him for a tour of the office as a bonus reward! And ask for a job...

Jul 22nd, 2004, 02:00 PM	#9
MacDaddy Honourable Citizen Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Calgary Posts: 2,939	I would ask him when the **** he was going to bring the iTunes music store to Canada, I mean, He said it was going to be over a year ago now!!!! __________________ Mister Chupa and Friends \| The Love Muffin \| My Flickr iThink, therefore iMac You are coming to a sad realization: Cancel or Allow? Chuck Norris was the one who took a bite out of the Apple Logo.

Jul 22nd, 2004, 02:41 PM	#10
Kosh Honourable Citizen Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ottawa Posts: 4,474	Well, after asking him to deliver my G5 that I'm waiting for right away, I'd probably ask for a tour of the campus too. __________________ -- Mac Pro Dual 3.0 Dual Core, 4GB RAM, 150GB Raptor HD, 500GB HD, Superdrive, Radeon X1900XT, Bluetooth, Airport Exteme, Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers, 30" ACD -- PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5, 2.5GB RAM, 160GB HD, Superdrive, Radeon X800XT, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme -- Macbook Pro 2.53 15", 4GB, 320GB HD, SuperDrive, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme -- iBook G4 1.33 14", 768MB RAM, 60GB HD, Combo Drive, Airport Extreme

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