I see you driving ’round town with an app that measures cellular radiation, and I’m like, “no interest”.
Apple head honcho Steve Jobs has made it abundantly clear that Tawkon‘s phone radiation measurement application is not welcome on its official App Store, pushing the startup to make it available for free (for jailbroken iPhones) through Cydia instead.
Tawkon sent a courteous email to Jobs in the hopes of gaining approval for distribution of the application through Apple’s App Store, only to receive a characteristically curt response back:
No interest.
Sent from my iPhone
The full email thread is below, followed immediately by Cee-Lo Green’s ‘Fuck You’ music video.
tawkon is a free app that alerts you when your phone radiation level spikes, and offers tips to help you lower it. tawkon empowers you to live a healthier lifestyle… Your Phone. Your Health. Your Call. -> CREATE HEALTHY HABITS: Just like you avoid pollution in the air, preservatives in food and other environmental risks, make sure your phone isn’t the source of ongoing radiation exposure. -> BE AWARE: tawkon subtly alerts you when exposure to radiation rises during a call, with simple...
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and formerly Pixar. Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later, he had dropped out, later taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures. Steve Jobs had a deep-seated interest in...
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