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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs continued

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has been hysterically funny since its recent return from death/move to a new address. There have been four posts today about Apple's use of chld labour in iPod manufacturing.Yesterday we had lawyer-proof razor wire going up around the Apple campus, and the promise that armed guards would shoot journalists on sight. There's also been a lot of riffing on the stock options situation that has led Apple to delay its next Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

All this is arguably an extension of Jobs's standard Reality Distortion Field, but over-exaggerated to the point where the "new" version should probably have been renamed The Peyote Diaries. Well, apart from the bit about shooting journalists....

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