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Sign of the Times (1/10/99)
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Here's a quickie that makes us smile: how many of you know who Hiawatha Bray is? (Some of you are groaning right now, we can hear it. But bear with us.) He's a tech journalist for the Boston Globe who frequently exposes his anti-Apple prejudices in his columns. You know the type-- still referring to Apple as "beleaguered" even after five profitable quarters, that sort of thing. Bray, however, often does have valid criticisms of Apple and the Macintosh, but we often get the feeling that he digs up those criticisms not for their own sake, but because he has his own personal axe to grind. That's just a matter of opinion, of course.
What is not a matter of opinion is the fact that Bray has a long history of Apple-bashing, and we're sure that if someone out there is keeping a list of the most flagrant anti-Apple journalists, he's on there somewhere. But he may have just slipped down a few notches, now that he's publicly recanted his earlier prediction that the iMac would be a dismal flop. (After 800,000 units sold in the first four and a half months and the iMac topping the list of best-selling computers at retail, we suppose he had little choice, but he could have simply tried to ignore that he ever made such a prediction.) So says he, "I've already owned up to my most idiotic prediction of the year, the inevitable failure of the Apple iMac. Some failure; I'm using one of them right now." So not only are they doing well, there's a reason they're doing well-- they work as advertised, which is well enough to persuade Bray himself to use one.
Many of you aren't going to think this is big news, but for those of us in Boston who know Bray's anti-Apple rhetoric from way back, it's very interesting indeed. Granted, it's not like he can ignore the figures and claim that the iMac is really a failure after all, but the fact that he actually wrote his column on one is very telling. Is this Bray's first step on the road to becoming an Apple advocate? That depends-- on Apple, mostly.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/10/99 episode: January 10, 1999: Using a modem on a Yosemite isn't that tough after all-- but it'll run you a few extra bucks. Meanwhile, Connectix's latest killer app is straining at the leash, but the company is keeping it muzzled in case Sony steps in with a lawsuit, and a longtime Apple basher starts to see the light...
Other scenes from that episode: 1256: Yosemite Modem Redux (1/10/99) Okay, we admit it: we were truly amazed by the Mac community's response to the Yosemite modem situation. To recap, according to Apple's price list, none of the retail Yosemite configurations include the internal modem option, and Apple isn't selling the internal modems separately-- and since there are no USB modems out on the market which yet include Mac drivers, that means that customers who need to use a Yosemite with a dial-up Internet account don't have too many choices... 1257: Money in Hand (1/10/99) Okay, in case you haven't noticed by now, we're self-confessed worrywarts. We worry about all kinds of stuff, especially stuff we can't change. We know it's not healthy, we know that it'll eventually bring on all sorts of fun problems like bleeding ulcers and high blood pressure, but hey, it's just who we are...
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