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From the consumerist:

Yep, it’s another one of those “email Steve Jobs” posts.

Reader Stephen wrote us a nice lengthy complaint email and cc’d Steve Jobs:

Hi Consumerist!

I purchased a MacBook Pro in November of 2006. Prior to the expiration of my one year warranty, I’ve had several component failures. Since being without the laptop affects my work productivity, I put the repairs off and figured I’d just bring it in with a laundry list of items just before the warranty expired.

On October 15th, I asked my wife to drop the laptop off at the Apple Store in Raleigh, NC for a display-related buzzing sound, a top case replacement (the coating was peeling off) and a SuperDrive replacement (an Apple firmware upgrade killed it). The Genius at the store said the buzzing noise was a…

Read the whole letter and post.

It has a happy ending! Yay.

From the motley fool:

I’m going to talk about long-term technology trends, which kind of sucks for me, as it will show just how old I am. Anyway, I’ll be referring to products and services that don’t exist any more. So bear with me youngsters. It’s All True.

In 1986, I told my dad he should buy some Microsoft stock. “Hey Dad,” I said. “You should buy some Microsoft.” He didn’t buy any, probably because I was more or less clueless about why he should buy Microsoft. “Because they make the software that runs computers.” I was kinda like that guy in The Graduate who told Dustin Hoffman, “Plastics.” That was me, the one word guy. And I was right! That’s the crazy thing.

Flash forward nine years. It’s 1995, I’m in law school, working on my personal computer. No, ha ha, just kidding. I was still using a typewriter in 1995. I know, I know.

Anyway, 1995, I had no computer. And I was watching the playoffs on TV and this little promo appears about how I could get more information on the world wide web. The information superhighway.

I had no idea what they were talking about. And I had this intuition that I was missing out on something. Plus, it was getting harder and harder to buy ink cartridges for my typewriter. So anyway, kicking and screaming and without any Microsoft stock to my daddy’s name, I was dragged into the internet age. Or information age, whatever.

So I had a decision to make. PC, or Apple? This actually was a very easy decision to make. Why it was an easy decision, I’ll need to disrupt the space-time continuum again and rewind to 1982. Or maybe it was 1983, it’s kinda foggy. Anyway…

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From Gizmodo:

Here’s a funny Steve Jobs Bobblehead app by Spiffy Tech’s Sean Haber. Every couple of moments, Jobs spits out a “Boom!” giving fanboys the comforting feeling of new Apple producs dropping at keynotes. Use jailbreakme.com to get this on your iPhone, but note some caveats…[Here]

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Yay. I love Fake Steve Jobs and I like Guy Kawasaki (most of the time) – anyway, make sure to catch the interview on ustream at 6pm, pacific standard time!

Go here for the interview!

From Wired:

After Apple fanatic Nick Haley posted his homemade iPod Touch commercial to YouTube last month, a few ad execs at the Cupertino based company saw it. But rather than send him a cease-and-desist letter, they bought his ad, flew him out to Los Angeles to reshoot it in high def, and will be broadcasting it during the World Series this weekend. THAT’S how you love your customers, people!

Check it out here.