I also want to use this tactically vs GOOG/AAPL and their device policies.

we see how important it is for people around the world to come together to advance the cause of peace

they are just better at handling this press (and their employees) than we are so won’t be so drawn into an ongoing story

Here’s a closer look at some of the angles from today’s coverage

We do want the app on the store if it will follow our guidelines to offer IAP

I want to make sure Epic is making every effort to optimize and not just counting on exceptions to our policies

Our primary strategy here is to eliminate the use of user-entered passwords.

We might not be perfect but I hope everyone thinks we are really good at this.

LinkedIn has been rejected for using the same language on their subscription call to action button that Apple uses

We have emphasized to Unity & other developers they must update their apps to bring the total memory usage under the limits

Tim’s overall message to Google was “I imagine us as being able to be deep deep partners...”

I take full responsibility.

Unfortunately, IAP being “optional” means that no one will ever use it.

What’s happening and what are we doing about it?

The leaks will continue until there is a substantial financial penalty.

If asked about Bloomberg Businessweek story on Super Micro

I need the two of you to play the role I usually play as I will not have the luxury of a number of cycles

This is a life and death issue for our customers.

Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best way to differentiate our products.

30% fee on any physical good business has massive margin impact and becomes impossible to sustain.

they have a unique arrangement because it was struck before the existing Video Partner Program came into effect

we hear that Tim is meeting with Dara from Uber soon and we expect this topic to come up

Small, independent developers get to use up to 50% of their first year revenue

I wasn’t aware that we were boosting the Files app and would like to know how that happened

F1 sucks as a sport now anyway

I don’t even know where to start.

You have a critical flaw in your app review process that is impacting us and many other apps

This is becoming embarrassing.

iMessage amounts to serious lock-in.

I told him that him and I need to sit down alone next week and agree to the economic terms or we shouldn’t move forward.

FYI - year in review by some Apple bloggers.

When they do get a refund, they are then banned from ever re-purchasing the app. They can never buy it again!

big developed have too many other choices to get around our fees, rules, and review process

Is this the guy that was at one of our rehearsals?

Poorly written note but we do need to do much more to improve discovery.

Developers issuing refunds directly to customers - any idea if this has been a prevalent ask from developers?

They allow fart apps still. We have to review and reject those apps manually.

The problem: this is a science project — we don’t know how to build something practical that won’t be rapidly worked around.

I am concerned the iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove and obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.

We plan to do $4 billion in gift cards this year. If we unleashed ourselves, we would make it $5 billion.

they compared 2013 to 1997 and the need to reboot a beleaguered Apple

To come back and suggest that Apple needs to think dramatically different about how we are running our company is a shocking response.

Android is a massive tracking device

We run the store, we collect the revenue

This is insane!!!!!!!

No promotion... we are not going to promote something that puts it’s goal as replacing our music player

Steve Job’s passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple’s and iPhone’s “superiority”

if we eliminate Fecebooks third proposal it sounds reasonable.

I have one correction to make, the ‘threat level’ is not “medium”, it is “very high.”

Links out of the app to purchase with other mechanisms are no longer necessary or allowed

iBooks is going to be the only bookstore on iOS devices.

It’s time for them to decide to use our payment mechanism or bow out.

Holy War with Google

I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.

What it really comes down to is that we’re usually first at doing it “right”!

In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own

Apathy/antipathy at Apple towards MS

they would be in violation of our developer program terms and we would not be able to distribute those applications

We are definitely making money so we are fine and mark can send you the data.

SJ has agreed to do in-app purchases for Kirkwood.

we could choose to provide an ad API for developers using a Microsoft ad platform back end, and where would Google be then?

MIT, Stanford, etc., will all teach Android instead of iPhone...

I think it would be a really bad idea for something that looks like contacts to have contacts not on that iPhone

That is the one I prefer, and the one I already put in the build hoping you’d pick it

For your eyes only. Thoughts?

Fine, let’s enable Cocoa Touch apps, but let’s do it in an orderly fashion

This is not satisfactory to Apple.

Super nano for $199

Let’s hold firm now and not further reward Steve’s negotiation tactics.

I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this.

I’m not entirely sure if this is good or bad for us. I can argue both views...

I spoke with Paul Jacobs (CEO) and Steve Altman (President) of Qualcom this afternoon.

I do think at some point we will want to enable third parties to write apps for P2.

I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this.

so i got a call from steve jobs today who was very agitated.

This may be our answer - we could put the number pad around our clickwheel.

I have a standing policy with our recruiters that we don’t recruit from Adobe. It seems you have a different policy.

Steve copied our pitch almost word for word.

I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way.

Let’s leverage this position now!!!!

I am REALLY counting on wm9.1 to fix this terrible experience. Apple is just so far ahead.

This whole Apple music experience is one that is interesting to me

we can simply deny any request to put their DRM in our iPod

We were smoked.

However I think we need some plan to prove that even though Jobs has us a bit flat footed again we move quick

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle

I am forcing Apple to do a lot of stuff they’d rather not do (using Office as leverage).

The Microsoft / Apple relationship seems to be progressing well.

Our Board and CFO feel strongly that any visible Microsoft hedging in the short run is unacceptable to Apple.

Apple has taken each of these elements and made them totally beyond unreasonable.