Jim Andeway
John GruberHappy to welcome and unofficially verify Phil Schiller on Mastodon: @pschiller
Theyβll let anyone in here. Literally!
Applewise@gruber @pschiller Now I can say I was one of Philβs first 250 followers π
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Eshu Marneedi@gruber @pschiller Wait, is this _the_ Phil Schiller, or a parody?
Some link verification would be nice.
@EshuMarneedi Heβs not going to verify on apple.com, get real. Trust me, itβs Schiller.
Paul McGrane@gruber @EshuMarneedi I wouldn't put it past him!
@gruber Well yeah, not apple.com, but like a personal website.
Kevin Marks@gruber @EshuMarneedi Well, if they hadn't killed all those web hosting projects at Apple over the years, he could have verified with Homepage.mac.com
Josh Hrach@gruber @EshuMarneedi I wonder if they could put something on the leadership pages (without exposing a visible link to Mastodon) that would allow verification.
Eugen Rochko@JoshHrach @gruber @EshuMarneedi It doesn't have to be a visible link, <link /> tag in header works too.
@Gargron @JoshHrach @gruber What would be cool (I donβt know if this is possible or not) is if we could verify the ownership of a specific domain, not the website it points to. That way, it could redirect to any website. For example, if Phil owned pschiller dot com, he could set up a custom TXT record or something and then set up a redirect which would go to the Apple leadership page.
Migrated to @[email protected] π³οΈβπππ§π·Luanaπ§π·ππ³οΈβπJan 29, 2023@JoshHrach @gruber @EshuMarneedi I mean, itβd be pretty nice to add the social media in there for those that have an account
Stand up for π³οΈββ§οΈ&π³οΈβπ rights@gruber @EshuMarneedi I was not sure earlier but if you say so Iβm gonna follow him because I trust you since 2003
@gruber @EshuMarneedi OMG, just realized that I known you for 20 years and now I feel sooo old.
Migrated to @[email protected] π³οΈβπππ§π·Luanaπ§π·ππ³οΈβπJan 29, 2023@pschiller @gruber @EshuMarneedi Pretty it is _the_ Phil Schiller, someone emailed him and he confirmed!
Proxima Centauri@gruber I don't know if you are joking or not.
His followers are about to rise because neither do others who read your toot.
@proximacentauri I wouldnβt joke about something like this. Thatβs Schiller.
@gruber well f* this mstdn.social server is so sketchy, I would imagine he'd choose something else.
I guess it doesn't matter because he can transfer himself in the future.
albertdrake@proximacentauri @gruber I tried joining the mastodon.social just because it looked more reputable (and some social proof), but couldnβt find how. I joined mastodon.cloud in the end, but really out of confusion. Hard to understand the implications of the server failing, despite Mastodon being under the umbrella of web3/distributed.
LearningXP 
@gruber I'm rather skeptical, given the polarizing nature of that account's first post. Would he post something so polarizing on a public forum? Would Apple let him?
https://mstdn.social/@pschiller/109745122147804668
https://mstdn.social/@pschiller/109745122147804668
Philip Schiller (@[email protected])
#HalfMoonBay thoughts and prayers for our town, gun control for our country
@learningxp If gun control is polarizing you've come to the wrong social network.
@proximacentauri I agree with the message, but I'm not a representative of a billion dollar company. Even if he's not employed by Apple, Schiller's a part of it one way or another. Any company of that size wouldn't risk any statement that would rock the boat.
@learningxp @proximacentauri I am sorry but gun control is something that is very much in line with the ethos of what Apple believe in. Also people too often forget the part that inconvenience them the most about the second amendment which is: a **well-regulated militia. **Right now there is nothing that is conforming to this in the various gun laws accros the US.** **
Jeremy Burge@gruber @pschiller welcome to the club, Phil
@jeremyburge @gruber @pschiller The tricky part is, as Phil knows, iTools has always used Sun/Oracle software to run @mac/me/icloud.com email. Can they or anyone spin up a mastodon instance for 500 million subscribers? I think maybe? Let's try!!!!!
Walden Wilde 
@gruber @pschiller Itβd be kinda hilarious to see him verify apple-dot-com in his profile metadata fields π€£
Conor@gruber @pschiller a warm welcome π€ we can now verify Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter!
rstevens π³π¨β
@gruber @pschiller THE BOSS!!
Nikesh@gruber @pschiller welcome to Mastodon, Phil! ππΌπ
SΓΆren@gruber @pschiller @Migueldeicaza missed opportunity to repeat
Ladies and gentlemen
I shit you not
Phil Schiller
Matt Fern@chucker @gruber @pschiller @Migueldeicaza Indeed it was. https://vimeo.com/130510366#t=12m3s
(edit: switched to official video at Vimeo)
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2015
Artyom Sarkisian@gruber @pschiller Canβt believe Iβm one of Phil Schillerβs OGs. :D
Welcome, Phil!!
Chris Adamson@gruber Was hoping for the βI shit you notβ intro from The Talk Show at WWDC.
John Siracusa@gruber @pschiller Phil verifying apple.com in his Mastodon profile would have been the power move.
John Jordan
George Hammerton 
Jim ParsonsThis reminds me of that time I worked in Cupertino (post Aldus PageMaker) and entire ο£Ώ exec team had no idea 35%-ish of global internet was powered by Mac's running Apache
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Anil Dash@siracusa @gruber @pschiller Phil if you need a little blog or something lemme know and I can show you how to whip one up
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David Nelson
Torstein@dmnelson oh yeah, that used to be a thing. whatever happened to iweb?
Mark Goedicke@siracusa @gruber @pschiller you say jokingly β but I imagine weβre not far off from companies setting up their own Fediverse servers to guarantee uptime and verification of their PR/marketing/public facing employees
@mgoedicke ouff that would be sweet!
Henrik Nyh@mgoedicke @siracusa @gruber Companies are one thing I kind of miss on Mastodon - it is/was nice about Twitter that you could contact a lot of companies through there.
Considering helping set up a hosted instance for my employer to #BeTheChange. Suspect getting buy-in from non-techies will be challenging at this stage.
@mgoedicke @siracusa @gruber There is perhaps a business opportunity for someone to try to be The Instance for companies/brands.
Craig Heywood
Gavan Shanley@siracusa @gruber @pschiller I just want to know what Phillip is driving these days, I know heβs likes his cars π
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Mark Vos
Michael Fey 
Scott Case@gruber @pschiller Whether a public lurker or active participant, glad youβre here, Phil.
Houman Katoozi@gruber @pschiller hi Phil ππ½
Beto@gruber @pschiller welcome!!
David Bisset@gruber I think @pschiller could the "Norm" of this place!
John Moltz@gruber @pschiller What, did he pay you $8?