{"id":1043,"date":"2010-07-18T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T09:37:27","slug":"steve-jobs-you-get-a-timeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs: You get a timeout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The scene at the Jobs house this week:<\/p>\n

Steve (played by a 6 year old boy): <\/strong>Hmm..\u00a0 the reception on my iPhone 4 sucks.\u00a0 So let’s just cover it up with a software update.<\/p>\n

Consumers Report (played by Mommy):<\/strong> Steve, your iPhone 4 isn’t receiving properly.\u00a0 And I caught you trying to cover it up.\u00a0 That will be a time out.<\/p>\n

S:<\/strong> But MOM! RIM isn’t receiving well, and Motorolla isn’t receiving well.<\/p>\n

C: <\/strong>That may be so, Steve, but we are talking about you and not your friends.<\/p>\n

S:<\/strong> But Mom!<\/p>\n

C: <\/strong>Don’t but<\/strong> mom<\/strong> me. First you caused a problem for a vast number of consumers, and then you tried to cover it up.\u00a0 The least you can do is apologize, and try to make up for it.<\/p>\n

S:<\/strong> Ok, here’s this phone condom.\u00a0 That will certainly make up for the waste of hundreds of dollars per consumer.<\/p>\n

C:<\/strong> Steve!\u00a0 Go sit in the naughty chair.\u00a0 You may stand up and go play with the other children when you apologize and really mean it.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, when polled<\/a> unscientifically by the Wall St. Journal<\/a>, parents in Steve’s community are equally divided over whether he behaved well.\u00a0 What kind of parents are those who accept such behavior?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The scene at the Jobs house this week: Steve (played by a 6 year old boy): Hmm..\u00a0 the reception on my iPhone 4 sucks.\u00a0 So let’s just cover it up with a software update. Consumers Report (played by Mommy): Steve, your iPhone 4 isn’t receiving properly.\u00a0 And I caught you trying to cover it up.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Steve Jobs: You get a timeout”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,320,87],"tags":[76,358],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-humor","category-internet","tag-iphone","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}