If you're a media heavy, and steve jobs didn't personally send you an iphone, you aint shit

-By YOSH Media big shots love to hate iGod and Apple CEO Steve Jobs because well, they hate that he controls how and where some of their digital content is delivered and at what price. Michael Wolff's article in the new issue of Vanity Fair talks about this but also touches on how Steve Jobs may be slowly losing that grip to consumers who are gaining more control over what they watch, where and how they watch it,and Google's top secret gPhone. Should Steve Jobs really be worried, or will he always be able to hold his spot in "Gadgetism" and distribution. They say super powers come and go, I mean look at this country of ours. Men with big jobs in big corporations have a word for this anywhere-anytime (let-us-help-you-steal-it) breakdown in distribution norms: anarchy. They’ve, in fact, had laws passed to inhibit it. But more and more, as gadgetism explodes, as it undermines every fixed notion of who delivers what to whom, as the big men with big jobs try to develop their gadget strategies, it’s comedy too. Everybody in charge of distribution channels is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. People at music companies, television networks, movie studios, cable providers, phone companies, and satellite systems are all trying, vainly so far, to figure out their place in a gadget-driven world, and are, mostly, looking like fools. NBC, in a huff, recently pulled its stuff from Apple’s iTunes downloading service because it believes its shows are worth more than $1.99 apiece. Then, in an about-face, the network announced it will give away its shows for free—figuring that somehow they’ll rig it up, those technological geniuses, so that after you download a show to your gadget and you see it once or twice, the show will dissolve or explode, or some such. Generals, Gadgets, and Guerrillas [Vanity Fair]

THE CUNTISMS OF MICHAEL EISNER: CALLS HOLLYWOOD WRITER'S STRIKE STUPID, SAYS STEVE JOBS IS THE REAL CULPRIT

-BY SDH Years after being booted from atop Disney, Michael Eisner still has a hard-on for Apple CEO Steve Jobs, saying that the current writer's strike should be directed towards Jobs and Apple because they are the ones making all the money from digital distribution. never mind that his former company is in bed with Steve Jobs and Jobs is huge Disney board member, Mike Eisner makes no fucking sense. He goes on to suggest that, the movie studios should have kept it quiet on what they are making from digital distribution and the writers wouldn't have went on strike claiming a piece of the pie. Is this dude for real?? What about the real sticking point--the issue of digital revenues? "There's nothing to give," Eisner says, "It's just too early." Eisner blames the studios--for boasting about how big their digital business is, so the writers want a piece of the action. Eisner says the writers should really be striking Apple in Cupertino, since Steve Jobs, not the studios, is the one making money on digital distribution. Yeah but its the studios who hopped in bed with Jobs, and they are getting their cut as well. Jobs is just the delivery man, delivering what the greedy studios ordered. Michael Eisner: Hollywood Writers Should Strike Apple [MediaMoney]

Disney's fake Inquiry on Pixar Grants finds that Steve Jobs did no wrong

Disney called off the prop dogs after their face saving investigation cleared Apple boss Steve Jobs of any misconduct in issuing backdated stock options at Pixar. Its a good thing too because had they found that Mr. Jobs was riding dirty, it would be a huge black eye for the entertainment giant and its biggest shareholder. A brief statement by John E. Pepper Jr., Disney’s chairman, did not mention Mr. Jobs by name. But the statement said that “while options were backdated at Pixar prior to the acquisition, no one currently associated” with Disney was involved in “any intentional or deliberate acts of misconduct.” Mr. Jobs, the former chairman and chief executive of Pixar, is now a Disney director and the media company’s largest shareholder, after Disney paid more than $8 billion last year for Pixar. Disney Inquiry on Pixar Grants Finds No Misconduct by Jobs [NYT] Photo: originally uploaded by LiuLiChang via Flickr