Apple CEO vows to take \"blogger\" suit to Supreme Court
Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs told a crowd at this week's Wall Street Journal D: All Things Digital Conference that he will take his lawsuits involving several Apple online news sites to the Supreme Court if he has to.
The Apple CEO claimed that "no one has the right to publish confidential information just because they can," according to a post made by Wired magazine co-founder John Battelle on his Searchblog website.
Jobs vowed to take the issue to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
Asked why he pulled all Wiley books from his Apple Stores over an unauthorized biography driven to market by publisher, Jobs said, "I didn't want to do business with them." But then he added, "People can publish whatever they want to publish."
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One has to wonder how successful Steve Jobs would or could be without petulance.
Thanks AppleInsider... What great insight.
Ironic how, exactly? I would feel the exact same way in Jobs' shoes - I would reserve the right to protect my company's trade secrets using any legal method. I would also reserve the right to choose not to be the distributor for a book that was unfavorable about me. Did Jobs try to stop the publication? Nope. He just chose not to help it reach an audience through the Apple store.
I approve of both moves.
I would also reserve the right to choose not to be the distributor for a book that was unfavorable about me. Did Jobs try to stop the publication? Nope. He just chose not to help it reach an audience through the Apple store.
He didn't just restrict the one book, however. He stopped all Wiley books from being sold in Apple stores. That's just childish petulance, and not particularly smart business.
While your point is valid, I disagree. There are plenty of other publishers out there that do educational titles - I don't think it's unwise to choose a different one.
Look at it this way: it may be ego on Steve's part, but is it really fair for this pubisher to put out a negative book on the CEO of one of it's business partners? Should they think that the two things are totally unrelated? I don't. You can't remove personal feelings from business deals, nice as it might be if you could. Although Steve has thought from the hip many times in the past to the detriment of Apple, this is one time where I think he has every right not to want to deal with a company that would put a negative message out there... it's really a conflict of interests and I don't see it impacting Apple negatively at all to pull their books from Apple retail locations.