As the Apple Turns: Scene 1520: Asleep At The Wheel (5/10/99)

Asleep At The Wheel (5/10/99)

So we decided to spend the whole day offline to deal with personal issues and get caught up with a dear old friend, because we just assumed not much would be going on-- did we miss anything?

That is, other than the introduction of the new lighter, faster PowerBooks; the official release of Mac OS 8.6; the surprise announcement that Dragon Systems plans to release a Mac version of their continuous speech dictation software by the end of the year; the introduction of the 1.0 release of Apple's OpenGL implementation; official confirmation that Sears will start selling iMacs by the end of the month; and the distribution of the Developer Preview 1.0 release of Mac OS X. Because other than that, it was a pretty slow news day, wasn't it?

Okay, we admit it-- for a WWDC keynote address, while there weren't any big surprises beyond the Dragon announcement, Steve and Avie managed to whip up a pretty satisfying little presentation, there. Playing to their audience, they finally released a lot of software: OpenGL, Mac OS 8.6, the finalized Carbon APIs, a new Mac OS Runtime for Java, and the first glimpse of Mac OS X (including the new PDF-based imaging engine). There was news that iMacs are still selling well, with one out of every three going to a first-time computer buyer, and sales should increase once the irresistible fruit-flavored lumps start getting hawked in some 800 Sears stores at the end of the month. All told, it was good news and well-received; here's hoping the good stuff continues. By the way, thanks a ton to the "Programmer Goddess" among AtAT's faithful viewers, who fed us updates while we were out slacking off.

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The above scene was taken from the 5/10/99 episode:

May 10, 1999: Another WWDC keynote has come and gone, leaving a trail of newly-released software in its wake. Meanwhile, Apple plays the name game once again in an attempt to keep us all interested, and a local ice cream proprietor catches iMac fever...

Other scenes from that episode:

1521: An API By Any Other Name (5/10/99) One of the things we always look forward to at WWDC is an influx of new names. For instance, until WWDC last year, the Mac world was still anxiously awaiting Rhapsody Premiere and Rhapsody Unified; after the keynote, suddenly it was Mac OS X we all wanted and craved...
1522: Good Taste, & Good Taste (5/10/99) Wouldn't you know it? We spend another day touring the city of Boston and its surrounding environs, and the iMac sightings just increase. This time, we saw them in a very cool place-- literally. It is perhaps not universally well-known that some of the very best ice cream in the world comes from Toscanini's on Main Street in Cambridge, just about in Central Square...

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