Corporate slander is virtually impossible to prove in a US court. Also, can anyone imagine the Wall Street Journal headline, "Apple Sues Blind Advocacy Organization Over Poor Review?"
I can already feel Apple PR people choking on their morning coffee as they read this example on this mailing list let alone seeing it in WSJ or New York Times. The editorial bias will be: "Apple Corp (AAPL), the Silicon Valley based multi-billion dollar corporation has set its notoriously ruthless legal team loose on America's largest advocacy group for people with vision impairment. Long time NFB technology leader, Curtis Chong said, "We call them as we see them and unlike some other advocacy organizations whom I won't name here, we don't sugar coat reviews of products we find to be lacking. We do not want our members to accidentally purchase an inferior product because we gave it what appeared to be a positive nod when we didn't believe it to be true." Sandy Beaches, a spokesperson for Apple, said, "I've a Glock 9 mm pointed at my temple and I promise I'll pull the trigger if our legal team doesn't back off the nice people at NFB who have just given us a really terrific award for our efforts on the iPhone. I mean it, I'll blow my head off live on YouTube if our guys don't back off," said the distraught PR professional." On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Frank Ventura wrote: > > Actually, Apple should have sued the NFB for slander and loss of > revenue. Now wouldn't that be poetic justice. > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cameron > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:19 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iPhone honored by NFB > > > Hi. yes, that poorly researched and non objective so called review of > voiceover should have been formally retracted, along with an apology, > but, > that did not, and probably will not, come to pass. > > Unfortunately. > > Cameron. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rich Ring > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:15 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB > > > I believe that what you're seeing here is that they're trying to > make up > for > > the grave error they made with the Mac without in fact quite admitting > they > were wrong. You have to read between the lines a bit, but this is > what > I > firmly believe. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ben mustill-rose" <bmustillr...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 6:34 PM > Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB > > > > I do find it rather funny that they slammed a program that ran on a > device with a full sized qwerty keyboard yet there all over the iphone > with its touch screen. > > O well - step in the right direction anyway. > > On 26/09/2009, Kevin Gibbs <kevj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> You have to ask the sighted friend to turn it on in preferences, I > think. >> K. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe > Rykiel >> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 5:30 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB >> >> >> Dear Chris, >> a friend of mine has one of these. Can you simply tell me how to turn > v o >> on >> and off on his device so I can give it a try. >> Cheers, >> JPR >> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:05 AM >> Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB >> >> It's called voiceover and as something that makes a device accessible > via >> speech and controls, it is voiceover, but with a different voice (not >> Alex) >> and a phone-specific set of gestures instead of keyboard controls. > That >> said, it's included on every iPhone 3GS and the newer iPod Touch. > Previous >> models didn't have the hardware performance to run this so there is >> no >> upgrade to get VO on the older devices. >> >> CB >> >> Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: >> >> Sorry for a very down-to-earth question, but does the IPhone come >> with > V O >> as well? >> JPR >> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:48 PM >> Subject: Re: iPhone honored by NFB >> >> >> Some have difficulty comprehending what is new and, by definition, >> not >> well understood. So they define the new in terms of what's known from >> the past, but when something is a revolution rather than an evolution >> the comparisons fail. Some will lodge those failures as the fault of >> what was being measured and dismiss it as being flawed. Others, more >> rarely, will correctly realize that the measurement framework has > failed >> and reevaluate their worldview. The NFB has been measuring sharks for > a >> long while and Apple brought in an leopard. It will take time for the >> definition of 'good' to be redefined. >> >> CB >> >> william lomas wrote: >>> they can soon praise the iPhone yet slam the mac? >>> hyppocrits >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >> > > > -- > Kind regards, BEN. > > email: bmustillr...@gmail.com > msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com > web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
