T-Minus 89 & Counting... (9/23/97)
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Faithful viewer Brian Freeman made an interesting suggestion via our Feedback page: "Scully canned Jobs and took us on down the road. We didn't like it much. Let's give Steve his 90 days. Then if it isn't right, we'll break out the Macintosh IIVX's and blow a hole in him! Okay?"
While AtAT can't condone violence to any living creatures (office Marathon Infinity netgames are a different story), we like the idea of a 90-day progress deadline; he raises Apple's ratings in three months, or he's written off the show (shot by a long-lost twin with a heroin addiction, perhaps?). 90 days from today is December 22nd, which, coincidentally, happens to be my father's birthday. Seeing as dear ol' Dad's a Mac user himself, I think a vastly Jobs-improved Apple state of affairs would be a nice present.
So starting today, there will be a Jobs Countdown Clock at the bottom of the screen, with the AtAT Nielsen Ratings. For those viewers thinking about running screaming from the Mac platform and never looking back, consider this course of action instead: Stick with your Mac for now, keep an eye on the Jobs Clock, and if things are no better when it reaches zero, buy yourself a Wintel machine for Christmas. And send us your Mac. :) (For the record, AtAT thinks Steve can pull this off. He's got real camera presence.)
By the way, did the IIvx's include some kind of bazooka-like projectile peripheral of which we were not aware? If so, anyone want to sell us one?
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| | The above scene was taken from the 9/23/97 episode: September 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
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