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Keep on Rocking (10/1/98)
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Following yesterday's brouhaha over the uncertain future of Motorola's PowerPC-making SPS division, it's only natural to expect some reassurance from the company's spin doctors. Thankfully, that's just what we got: a MacCentral article claims that, according to Motorola officials, the PowerPC is "alive and kicking butt."
In the words of Ken Phillips, Motorola's SPS director of communications, and Garth Nash, Motorola's networking and computing systems group's communications director, all PowerPC-unit spinoff rumors are "ludicrous" and contain "no truth at all." While it's true that Motorola is considering new "business models" for one or more of its systems groups, the PowerPC section is apparently not among them. It's the semiconductor components group that's under scrutiny right now, and the PowerPC apparently has "nothing to do with" that section.
Of course, if Motorola were entertaining thoughts of selling or spinning off SPS' PowerPC sector, do you suppose they'd actually tell us? Admitting to a bunch of Mac fans that you're considering killing the processor that powers their favorite computer is tantamount to stapling raw meat to your forehead and leaping naked into a pit of attack dogs. Still, no need to be overly paranoid about this stuff. After all, as faithful viewer Brad Farnsworth points out, there's always IBM. Sure, they don't have Altivec, but at least they have copper technology. And even if they don't care about Apple, they use the PowerPC chip in their own high-end servers, so there's little reason to suspect that they'd leave the market as well. Single source, shmingle source.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/1/98 episode: October 1, 1998: The iMac is the uncontested computer beauty of this year's small screen-- was there ever any doubt? Meanwhile, Apple U.K. throws everyone a curve by pulling out of the upcoming London Apple Expo, and Motorola claims that the PowerPC is in no danger whatsoever...
Other scenes from that episode: 1049: Ready For Its Close-Up (10/1/98) There was never even any question that Apple's new iMac has "star quality." Those colors, those curves, that come-hither look-- Hollywood was destined to hear the call. And so it came to pass that an iMac, scarcely two weeks after its runway debut, landed a brief cameo appearance in a commercial for "Spin City."... 1050: Early Withdrawal (10/1/98) So you thought all the good Apple dirt comes out of Cupertino? Not so, my friends. Just witness the fireworks over in Merry Olde England, as Apple U.K. announced that it's pulling out of this year's Apple Expo '98...
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