Apple Store has cancelled you
Subject of the email I got 30 minutes ago says it all, and I guess it's not that surprising in the grand scheme of things. So, if you were making plans, you should probably put them on hold. I don't feel like I have the real deal yet on what went down, but know some of you were buying plane and train tickets and such and wanted to let you know first thing. I've had some alternate venues suggested, so who knows.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 26, 2005, at 01:05 PM
Comments (16)
Posted by: brian at August 26, 2005 01:12 PM
That's incredibly sad. You'd think Apple would be a company that learned the value of keeping, not breaking, commitments and relationships with customers and first adopters who spread the word.
Posted by: Jason Terhorst at August 26, 2005 01:17 PM
Maybe a VideoPodcast would work? That would be pretty cool. DrunkenOne, you may not think so, but people would really be interested in hearing/seeing you speak, and in-person would be a bonus. Don't discount the possibility.
Posted by: HeelToe at August 26, 2005 01:18 PM
I suppose you shouldn't have posted about their big webkit issue. :/
How eft!
Posted by: erik at August 26, 2005 01:42 PM
You should do it anyway in front of their building so they can watch how many people you would have attracted to their store for them.
Posted by: Ed Gordon at August 26, 2005 01:58 PM
You are lucky. Normally when I have something cancelled from the apple store it gets put on backorder for a few months first.
Posted by: at August 26, 2005 02:15 PM
After your last post, are you really surprised? The community may appreciate what you do, but Apple is not the community and that last post "Safari Image of Doom" would spook a suit.
Posted by: Roland Dobbins at August 26, 2005 02:24 PM
Did they say why? PR-monkeys getting the wind up?
Posted by: revDave at August 26, 2005 02:54 PM
gasp. I'm going down there today anyway, so I'll inquire.
Posted by: Diggory Laycock at August 26, 2005 02:54 PM
Webkit's opensource now - I'm not sure they care as much about bugs in it being disclosed as bugs in other projects -- but you never know...
Posted by: Mike Zornek at August 26, 2005 02:55 PM
I'm really interested in the "why" myself.
Posted by: Dustin Sacks at August 26, 2005 03:15 PM
'Think different', my ass!
Posted by: Martey at August 26, 2005 04:18 PM
I think it's far more likely that the posts about changing the desktop on Apple Store machines freaked them out more than the WebKit thing. Of course, Occam's Razor suggests that there is an even more innocuous explanation.
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 26, 2005 04:32 PM
I'm not really worried about it, as stuff happens -- I'm more just glad I was able to get in touch with the people who told me they were going to be flying in before their tickets were final.
I heard from a guy about an alternate venue that may be a little overkill, but I'll dig into it and see what happens.
Posted by: Retard at August 28, 2005 02:55 PM
bit of a bummer I must agree. plus for some reason your site went down for a bit earlier on. shame I would have loved to see the fallout of your talk. bit far to come from england really.
Posted by: Rajiv Manglani at August 30, 2005 08:24 PM
maybe they do not want you to upstage whatever it is they are introducing on sept 7?
That's pretty harsh. I was considering making the trek from Kansas City, too. Ah well. I suppose it's faster for me to log on to drunkenblog.com anyways. :)