Steve Jobs Basically Calls Mark Fiore A Fame-Seeking Liar; Claims, Timeline, Point Fairly Baffle

Michael Cavna has the back and forth of a new exchange via media between Apple's Steve Jobs and cartoonist Mark Fiore. Although it's clear that Jobs basically characterized Fiore as a fame-seeking prevaricator, it's unclear what Jobs thinks Fiore was lying about and exactly how Fiore was apparently seeking fame.

Now, as I understand the story, Fiore was rejected, it was noted in a few places, he won the Pulitzer, the rejection was noted in a lot of places for the irony driven by Fiore's new status, Apple caved in this specific case despite what seems like a troubling and more general trend by Apple towards controlling a certain kind of speech through the power of denying access to its marketplace. Fiore wasn't only not fameseeking by pressing his point after his Pulitzer win, he was moving the opposite direction, using his brief moment of fame to gently push for reconsideration of something he considered a wrong. Although to be honest, I'm not sure how much Fiore was doing the pushing there. Mostly, places like this site made this point on his behalf because we thought it was a funny outcome given Apple's initial unjust, idiotic act. And I still don't have any idea what Fiore was supposed to have lied about -- his initial bid was rejected just as he said. I find the whole thing baffling and sad.
 
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