Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers

Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Jobs' fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."

Er, many elevators have issues. This is news?

[Speare]

What kind of news is this? It's an elevator. The only thing "innovative" is the use of transparent materials for the fashion components. The rest of it is plain old off-the-shelf engineering in a plain old retail store. If a two-story CompUSA outlet has elevator trouble in its first month, it's not a major Slashdot story, it's not even a Joe "Windows 4ever" Sixpack blog story.

What are "Group Customers"?

[mapmaker]

A blogger uses broken english in his headline, a slashdotter copies this terrible grammer verbatim for a story submission, and Slashdot's editors (ahem) post it unedited.

Our esteemed president addressed the poor language skills of the nation's youth, asking wisely, "Is our children learning?" [amazon.com]

Re:Er, many elevators have issues. This is news?

[crerwin]

Aw, come on. You know that if Microsoft had built an obnoxious-looking store in the middle of New York and the elevator broke, we would be neck-deep in "must have been running Windows XP Elevator Edition" jokes. You must see at least a little humor in this story.

Ahh... taste the plagiarism!

[ostermei]

From the submission: Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Not eight days after Apple's new New York flagship store was unveiled, Stevie Job's fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained. Close-up picture included to the source story as well."

From the Engadget article linked in the submission: Well, that was fast. Not eight days after Apple's new flagship store was unveiled, Stevie J.'s fantastical glass elevator began acting a bit wonky, first opening and shutting its doors, then finally sealing in its passengers on the upper level. Apple store employees worked their hardest to release the bunch, but eventually the NYPD had to be called; the elevator's hydraulic system had to be drained, and the confined group was let out in the store's bowels (i.e. lower level).

They even ripped off the nonsensical title of the article itself!
Slashdot title: Apple: Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers
Engadget title: Jobs' glass elevator locks in group customers.
Shouldn't there be an 'of' in there? Maybe an 'a'? I'm thinking "Jobs' glass elevator locks in a group of customers." But the submitter couldn't even be bothered to add three little letters to make it a read more smoothly.

Slashdot submitter: Juha-Matti Laurio.
Engadget blogger: Ryan Block.

Removing a couple phrases and tacking one sentence of your own onto the end of the submission does NOT make it your own original work. If you're going to rip off your source word-for-word, at least have the courtesy to cite them instead of representing their work as your own.

Re:Well, you see. It's like this.

[nsayer]

If an elevator stops at only two floors, why does it need more than one button?

The elevator got jammed up on the irony

[dj_segfault]

... of those Apple ads on TV with the PC computer locking up two or three times, while the Mac keeps running.

Re:Damage Control

[Anonymous Coward]

Sigh - yet another battle between the computer-engineers-who-couldn't-get-laid and the computer-engineers-who-couldn't-seem-to-do-anythin g-successfully-but-get-laid.

I've often rephrased Jobs, "Microsoft does not have to fail for Apple to succeed" (announcing their working together some years ago). After years on the fence, even while working at an Apple software developer, I realized the truth is, "Just because Microsoft deserves to fail for its business practices does not mean that Apple deserved to succeed." Yes, Apple does a lot of things passionately better, but it also fails the sniff test in a lot of areas.

Re:Er, many elevators have issues. This is news?

[That's Unpossible!]

The knife cuts both ways. If you want to make a glass elevator to get press, you can expect press when that same elevator fails spectacularly.

Re:I think you mean Jobs's

[Sagrilarus]

Jobs' is correct. But this is only Sagrilarus' opinion.

Sag.

Re:mix-up in the mail

[Anonymous Coward]

You seem to have missed the last 50 years of glass technology. Have you never seen a car?