The honeymoon's over: Macintouch has lots of tidbits on the aftermath of the end of licensing as we knew it. After having told Apple to "hit the road," Motorola is dumping all of their Mac OS machines in an attempt to leave the ugly past behind. Apparently they are soliciting bids from distributors to buy their entire remaining inventory in a single lot, nonreturnable. How's that for a clean break? After the rocky relationship with the Mac, Motorola's sworn off new relationships for a while.

Meanwhile, not so for spurned lover Power Computing; after being dumped by Apple for wooing the wrong customers, Power has now reportedly sold out of many models, including all PowerBases, all PowerCenter Pro 210's, and all low-profile models. Power had priced their remaining Mac OS boxes at fire-sale level just to get rid of them, forget the past, and move on. They've got a new love now in the guise of Microsoft (for whom they had eyes all along, some say), with whom they hope for a nice, stable (albeit bland) relationship; but we bet that every time they close their eyes, they see the Mac's alluring smile...

A faithful viewer gave us an unconfirmed rumor of a disturbing nature. Most of you have probably visited Apple's web site at one time or another. What you may not have known (but probably could have guessed) is that it's run almost entirely by a slew of PowerMacs-- Apple Workgroup Servers, to be exact. This award-winning site is a perfect rebuttal to the old saw that "Macs make lousy web servers." So why, pray tell, is Steve Jobs planning on replacing those Macs with expensive new Sun workstations?

As our cloak-and-dagger source points out, the Macs are handling the site's traffic just fine. Plus, they are easy to administer and incredibly secure. And it's not like the Suns will run Rhapsody or anything. So why?

AtAT's recent server problems notwithstanding, the Mac is an excellent web server platform and we're a little taken aback that Uncle Steve would eliminate one of its best showcases. If anyone in the know can confirm or deny these rumors, you know where to reach us. (We've since seen that Macintouch has posted this rumor, too.)

Well, we at AtAT now know that we have officially "arrived." Check out the London Independent article "`Way Cool' Episodes Enliven the Apple Soap Opera" and tell us that we aren't a trend-setter. ;-) It actually is a pretty good article to get a quick overview of the whole Apple situation, but we're not sure it's what we'd call "balanced reporting."

We'll let this infraction slide, but if we see a new Apple-based soap opera appear on NBC next week, someone's gonna get sued.