A follow up to Steve’s epic counter against Google’s launch of Chrome OS:
I looked at her and I was like, Who are you and what have you done with Katie Cotton? Honestly, Katie, did you have a stroke or something? Because this is like PR 101, okay? If anyone calls, you just say we don’t comment on speculation. Or we don’t talk about rumors. Or we say we don’t discuss personnel issues, because it’s a privacy issue, and we think the hacks are being total scumbags for not respecting Eric’s privacy. If they still persist in asking, we make up some statement that doesn’t mean anything, like, “Eric is a talented executive and an important contributor,” and we tell Dowling to just keep repeating it, over and over again, until they give up.
Katie says, But Steve, wouldn’t that be kind of like lying? I just looked at her.
Then she goes, Ha! Got you! And we both burst out laughing.
I’m so glad Real Steve got that liver from David Pogue; otherwise, we’d be missing the writing of hilarious yet meaningful of Fake Steve. Oh how we (at least I) missed him.