Apple PR: Some Steve Jobs e-mail conversations are fake

You may have picked up from the Apple webosphere that Steve Jobs had yet another e-mail conversation with an un-happy customer named Tom. During the conversation, Steve Jobs was portrayed to have told the customer that he was “… getting all worked up over a few days of rumors. Calm down,” and “You are most likely in an area with very low signal strength.” Tom defends himself by comparing signal results to his previous iPhone 3GS.

According to Fortune however, a top Apple spokesman has denied that Steve Jobs sent those e-mails, when he was asked on record. There’s a possibility that Steve Jobs did still send them and that their spokesman is simply covering for him, but I doubt that. There’s a more likely solution, which has a story from AppleInsider to back it up.

We know that Steve Jobs has, on occasion, replied to e-mails asking questions about Apple’s products and services. There’s some amount of caution surrounding them, but for the majority, we can feel pretty confident that he has indeed replied to some. We also know, thanks to Gizmodo, that technology weblogs are sometimes willing to pay for scoops and the inside story, whether or not they always should. So there’s a great possibility that some clever people have thought to create fake conversation threads with “Steve Jobs” in an attempt to sell them to the highest bidder. AppleInsider was offered the purchase of a similar e-mail thread from a man in Virginia, although the price that was asked for was unspecified.

It’s not rocket science, really. It’s easy enough to see the train of thought for people thinking there’s a possibility in selling fake e-mail threads—we all love a little Apple CEO interaction, don’t we?

Via [Fortune] and [AppleInsider]