[OT] Apple at it again

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Thu Jun 9 13:11:54 EDT 2011


Wow, you had an easy boss!  Mine would have told me to ask for 90% of the
world back and settle for 80%.
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Mark Talluto wrote:
>
> > Apple is pioneering the mobile app market and is pushing hard
> > initially for as much control as they think possible.  Thanks
> > to competition and market pressure, they are forced to come
> > back in line with what is reasonable.
>
> Reminds me of my last job I had before I started Fourth World, where one of
> my tasks was doing contract review with our prime contractors, which often
> meant long conversations with senior counsel at Bechtel, Parsons, and
> similarly large firms.
>
> My boss explained my job like this:
>
> "They're job is to ask for the world.  Your job is to ask for half of it
> back."
>
> :)
>
>
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