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CAUSE and Effect (12/9/98)
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In other keynote news, Jobs took his favorite position under the spotlight today as he addressed the crowd at CAUSE98, a conference dedicated to the use of information technology in higher education. And while it certainly wasn't an explicitly Mac-themed show, there was still quite a bit of juicy information to be extracted from Steve's little talk. Read more about it in MacWEEK.
Probably most importantly, Steve confirmed that QuickTime 4.0 will indeed be introduced next month at Macworld Expo, complete with its streaming media capabilities. That's the good news. Unfortunately, as we have long suspected, the fabled consumer portable system (code-named "P1") will not debut during the show, although it will ship sometime in the first half of 1999. Considering the near-100% likelihood that Apple will unveil its new Yosemite line of professional desktop systems, it's not surprising that the P1 will be downplayed. And you can draw your own wireless-net conclusions from Steve's discussion about how portables need to be connected all the time. As for the rumors that Hypercard has been axed, Jobs referred to the notion as the excrement of a male bovine mammal, or something to that effect.
So there was no earth-shattering news, but what concrete info that did come "straight from the horse's mouth" was quite positive-- and it was certainly more that we were expecting from an education keynote. Beyond that, we always like to hear Steve talk about education, since it's obviously a subject near and dear to his heart. Apple is still widely perceived as the educational computer company, and with Jobs at the helm, perhaps they can soon make up whatever ground they've lost in the last few years.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/9/98 episode: December 9, 1998: Sounds like Stevie's not playing nice with little Johnny Warnock in the Seybold Sandbox. Meanwhile, Jobs spills a few choice beans about QuickTime 4.0 and the P1 consumer portable at the CAUSE98 conference, and Microsoft finds itself embarrassed by definitions in its own computer dictionary...
Other scenes from that episode: 1203: Knifed Backs & Dirty Pool (12/9/98) We apologize; it's been a while since we've had any really sleazy soap-operatic stuff show up on AtAT. To be honest, Apple just hasn't really been playing very dirty lately-- they seem to be doing just fine by building compelling products and keeping them on the shelves the best they can... 1205: Uh, We Said WHAT? (12/9/98) Words, words, words-- it's hard to believe that the outcome of a trial as entertaining as "Redmond Justice" could depend so heavily on semantic debates. One of the central arguments in the case is, of course, whether Internet Explorer is a web browser application, or actually just an additional function in the Windows operating system...
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