The Dishmaster
August 27, 2011
General
Tags: Apple, Quote of the Day, steve jobs
In the Summer of 2008, Apple launched MobileMe on its third generation iPhone, which was meant to compete with Blackberry’s coveted email system. Despite the iPhone’s positive reviews, MobileMe was a failure with critics. So Steve Jobs, never one to take failure lying down, gathered his
MobileMe team for an emergency town hall meeting. Then he asked, “can someone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” After getting an answer, he replied, “then why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”
In the Summer of 2008, Apple launched MobileMe on its third generation iPhone, which was meant to compete with Blackberry’s coveted email system. Despite the iPhone’s positive reviews, MobileMe was a failure with critics. So Steve Jobs, never one to take failure lying down, gathered his MobileMe team for an emergency town hall meeting. Then he asked, “can someone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” After getting an answer, he replied, “then why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”
