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Early Year-End Bonus (11/18/98)
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Have you ever wished that the company you work for was a little... well, cooler? We're guessing that the employees at Kaidan don't. If you happen to have done any work with QuickTime VR, you have probably heard of Kaidan-- they make object rigs and tripod turntables for the acquisition of pictures to be stitched into QTVR panoramas and object movies. It's pretty neat stuff. But Kaidan's development of "Immersive Imaging Technology" isn't why they're heading up AtAT's "Cool Company" list right now-- rather, it's because of the early Christmas presents they've just given all of their employees. Hint: Think Bondi.
That's right; according to a press release, Kaidan is actually buying an iMac for every single employee. And we don't mean iMacs on their desks at work (as if that wouldn't be cool enough)-- we're talking about free iMacs given to every Kaidan employee to take home for personal use. Kaidan's president, James Anders, says that his company will be making the $29.99 monthly payments per iMac as recently made possible by Apple's Consumer Loan Program. It's not a gift, he says, as much as it is an investment: he wants everyone at his company to have "unlimited access to the tools they need for their personal and professional growth."
We have no idea how many employees Kaidan has; probably not all that many, given the niche market for their products. But regardless, buying personal iMacs for all of its workers is a nice gesture, "investment" though it may be. It just goes to show you, not all jobs are created equal... Plenty of AtAT viewers tune in from jobs where they're forced to use Windows, which is a far cry from being given a free iMac. Oh, well... here's hoping everyone makes the best of what they've got.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/18/98 episode: November 18, 1998: Not too many companies would give free personal iMacs to all their employees, but we can think of at least one. Meanwhile, if you want an iMac and need a Zip drive, you now have several options, and Larry Ellison hits upon the solution to ending the Microsoft antitrust problem once and for all...
Other scenes from that episode: 1157: Zippity Doo Da (11/18/98) It's taken a while to kick into gear, to be sure, but the flow of peripherals for the iMac really seems to be picking up speed. The iMac, as we're sure you're all aware, has only a single peripheral interface: USB... 1158: An Immodest Proposal (11/18/98) "Redmond Justice" lurches along in its fifth week, as IBM executive John Soyring testifies that Microsoft's "contract restrictions on software developers" pretty much killed OS/2, IBM's PC operating system that tried to compete with Windows and wound up winning only a tiny chunk of the market...
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