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Well, as much as I hate talking about rumors, fact is, this is a mammoth story, and it needs to be addressed here on Apple Gazette. This is going to recap the saga that is the 4th-Gen iPhone, Engadget, Gizmodo, Apple, and everything in between. But before we can talk about what it is and why it’s so important, let’s first discuss how this all shook out.

On April 17, Engadget reported that they had been sent pics of the prototype iPhone. It had been left at a bar in San Jose, and the pictures were now being mailed to various tech outlets. It wasn’t said specifically, but at the time the owner of said pics may have been shopping for a price on the device, which was alluded to in the post:

There may be a chance to get some more face-time with the handset, but we wanted to get these photos to you guys ASAP. Stay tuned, we’re working on more details as we type — for now, enjoy the gallery below!

Well, Engadget didn’t get the device. But someone else did, and is rumored to have paid $10k for it. Gizmodo.

This topic has been pretty hot on the interwebs. So much so that Ken Sweet wondered about it aloud on Twitter:

This is my kind of news! I just read that primary school pupils in the UK might be learning how to work Twitter and Wikipedia. This is according to UK MSN. The report, published today, says that “former Ofsted chief Sir Jim Rose will present recommendations for revamping the primary curriculum to ministers next month.”

The reason for this? Sir Jim Rose says that children should understand the inner workings of information technology by the time they reach secondary school. Aside from Twitter and Wikipedia, he included blogging and podcasting in his list. More than this, however, he is also proposing that some history need not be required as part of the curriculum. This means that schools may opt not to teach about the Victorian Era or the Second World War, but if they do decide to include these topics, it should be just fine.

My reactions? Of course I am happy that the authorities are seeing the value of information technology.Wouldn’t it be cool to have young kids using Twitter? I am not so sure as to how Twittering would benefit very young kids, however. As for Wikipedia, I can see how this works out easily. I am even pretty sure that it is already being used by a lot of school kids to do research.

I am concerned about overlooking important historical events, however. I don’t believe that these topics should be passed over for information technology. Can’t they be taught at the same time? What do you think?

Of course it’s a bug, but you wouldn’t think a company would take such offence. One rep did, though:

jason!

you’re an idiot and a liar!! fact is!

you’ve opened one session then another and requested a page meant for a different session, you are so stupid you dont even know how you did it! you dont get a free flight, there is no dynamic data to render which is prob why you got 0.00. what self respecting developer uses a crappy CMS such as word press anyway AND puts they’re mobile ph number online, i suppose even a prank call is better than nothing on a lonely sat evening!!

Sheesh! Didn’t even bother with the punctuation, grammar or spell check. What’s amusing and pathetic at the same time is that, while the original post is fairly matter-of-fact (“this is what I did, and this happened”) the response is an attack on both blogger and WordPress.

That wasn’t enough, though. “Customer relations” obviously decided that Jason hadn’t had enough schoolyard reprimanding:

Website is not perfect, Life is not perfect…

If you would work in your pathetic life on a such big project in a such busy environment with so little resources, you would know that the most important is to have usual user behavior scenarios working rather than spending time on improbable and harmless things.

We very well know about these anomalies and unless it is not critical we are not going to sacrifice time to this.

If you would be a serious programmer you would know these things and would not post any of this on the web if you would think it can cause us troubles, but you would report to us directly.

Even you did not discover anything major you are still trying to benefit from this.

If I would be you I would think of consequences this can have.

If you would be a serious developer you would work out your About page as well. Or is this really about you? What is that bunch of links there? I could give my review of those websites and it would not be positive probably, but really I don’t know if you actually worked on them or what exactly you did and how big influence you had to make changes there. So keep working on yourself and don’t post bollocks.

Maybe if Ryanair wants to be a “serious airline” they should work on how their staff respond to online criticism. Of course, it could all be a hoax, or a wind-up, as there’s no way of knowing if all of these comments are from Ryanair staff. Some are. Still funny.

Jason retorts:

Ryanair UK staff – “report to us directly” .. sure, give me your direct phone number and name and ill report issues to you directly. Stop hiding behind your anonymity and office network. Low blows about me personally isn’t going to help your situation.

“If I would be you I would think of consequences this can have.” – That sounds quite threatening a tone to take from an employee on a company network. I have stated factual information, nothing else.

The next retort is pure ironic class:

Many of ordinary computer users/customers did find a way to report to us directly…
I am not entitled to deal with public nor have time…
It’s not about me, it’s about you…

It’s not a threat, its advice for you to present yourself better… but of course you think of threat straightaway, because that fits you better.

Defensive aggression of Ryanair stuff is less than offensive aggression of customers and each stuff member gains this gradually.

Offensive aggression of customers depends on customer’s ignorance, Ryanair restrictions, Ryanair policy, strictness and low prices as lower the prices are more people are traveling with bigger intellectual diversity.

OK, seriously, WTF?

To round it all off, Stephen McNamara from Ryanair has been quoted as saying:

“Ryanair can confirm that a Ryanair staff member did engage in a blog discussion.

“It is Ryanair policy not to waste time and energy corresponding with idiot bloggers and Ryanair can confirm that it won’t be happening again.

“Lunatic bloggers can have the blog sphere all to themselves as our people are far too busy driving down the cost of air travel”.

Honestly, this stuff makes me laugh almost as much as FAILBlog.

It’s not entirely clear whether Ryanair’s stance is that all bloggers are idiots (or, indeed, lunatics), or just some.

So, if you’re a blogger and want to correspond with Ryanair, my advice is not to bother. They don’t want to know. End of.

Right, I’m back off out in to the blog sphere where I’m free from lunatic travel companies.

(Via The Register)