Gawker writer Ryan Tate has managed the impossible – an interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs – but the iPad critic got more than he bargained for though after lambasting the CEO via email after a few too many on Friday night.
Tate sent the email to Jobs after he saw a new ad for Apple’s iPad which claimed the device was a “revolution”.
Slightly offended, Tate asked Jobs what Bob Dylan would think of such wanton use of the “R” word.
“If Dylan was 20 today, how would he feel about your company?” Tate wrote.
“Would he think the iPad had the faintest thing to do with ‘revolution’?
“Revolutions are about freedom.”
Three hours later – at 2am – Jobs replied with his thoughts on what freedom meant, along with a sting in the tail for Tate.
“Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data,” Jobs wrote in an exchange published online by Gawker.
“Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn.”
Jobs added, “By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
Let that be a lesson to Flash perhaps…