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It looks like Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be on a mission to piss off everyone in the world.

At an education conference on Friday, Steve Jobs blamed teachers’ unions for America’s educational problems.

“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized,” Jobs said. “This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy.”

“Apple just lost some business in this state, I’m sure,” Jobs said.

Jobs is no stranger to controversy:

• Earlier in the year, Steve Jobs blew off Mac fans at Macworld, the largest convention of Mac users in the world, by not making any Mac introductions. There were no announcements of new Macintosh computers. There were no updates of Mac OS X. No mention of iLife updates. Apple didn’t even announce any cool new applications for Macs. Instead, Jobs introduced the Apple phone and some cross-platform products.
• Jobs angered Windows users when Apple blamed virus-infected iPods on Windows. “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses.”
• Jobs angered Apple investors by profiting at their expense when Apple used stock purchase backdating to give him sweet deals on stock and then reportedly falsified documents to cover it up.
• Jobs pissed off people who just spent hundreds of dollars on a new iPod when he said “if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.”
• Jobs made an enemy of the major music labels when he challenged them to release their music without copy-protection.
• Jobs pissed off Zune buyers when he said that iPods beat Zunes for connecting with chicks. “I’ve seen the demonstrations on the Internet about how you can find another person using a Zune and give them a song they can play three times,” said Jobs. “By the time you’ve gone through all that, the girl’s got up and left! You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear.” Ewwww!

Fortunately for Jobs, Zune buyers haven’t turned out to be a large demographic. Nevertheless, Jobs appears to be well on his way to pissing off everybody.