So, this past Tuesday, at a Q&A in Cupertino between Apple and assorted reporters, a guy named Bob Keefe got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask Steve Jobs a question.
PAUSE.
Just think for a second if you had a chance to stand up in front of Steve Jobs and ask him any question about Apple, Macs, anything, what would you say?
Now, does the word “stickers” come in to play at all? Yeah, it didn’t for me either.
Apparently it did for Mr. Keefe. He stood up and asked why doesn’t Apple put those [horrible] Intel Inside stickers on their Macs.
I’m sure as the crowd went into a roar of laughter, Mr. Keefe realized he may have made a slight boo boo. But I bet he didn’t realize the response he would get from the blogosphere.
Josh Gruber (of Daring Fireball) jumped on him first. MacUser threw in a few punches. And then MacWorld finished him off.
And the worst part, as is the case with anyone who does something stupid and then gets mad that people talk about him behind his back, is he whines about the “Cult of Mac” and writes with no regard that it might have been a stupid question.
I couldn’t care less. I didn’t read about this on Josh’s site and get pissed. It was for me what it was for most others, a good laugh.