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Picking Up And Moving (6/29/99)
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Speaking of unsubstantiated rumors, our buddy John Farr over at AppleLinks forwarded us a doozy: apparently our plans to camp out for good keynote seats at the Javits Center may have to be adjusted slightly. If AppleLinks' "source close to Apple" is correct, come July 21st, Jobs and his entourage won't be staging the keynote address at the Javits Center after all-- instead, the whole dog and pony show will be relocated to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, presumably in hopes of turning the event into even more of a media circus than it already was going to be. Hey, no problem; we don't mind camping out at 30 Rock instead, and we'll probably just hoof it back to the Javits Center afterwards instead of contending with the inevitable bloody fights for cabs. (We're getting a little rusty with the flick knife in our old age.)
The big question, though, is why does Steve want to deliver his address from a more media-accessible stage? Sure, the more free advertising the better, and the P1 will soak up any media attention that gets thrown its way, and if that's all there was to the rumor, then we'd be satisfied. But what's sticking in our collective AtAT craw is AppleLinks' contention that the relocation is due to a "major non-Mac move by Apple." A non-Mac move? Is it just us, or does that sound at least vaguely ominous, if not downright scary? Here we thought the big news at the Expo would be the unveiling of the P1, but the P1 is most definitely a Mac through and through, and now we're wondering what this bigger news could be. Likely there's no cause for actual alarm, but we've just been hearing those "Apple-branded Wintel boxes" rumors for too many years, so we're a bit spooked nonetheless.
Anyway, at this point, the entire keynote relocation thing appears to be a single-source rumor, so don't start setting up your tent in Rockefeller Plaza just yet. (Then again, that's just what we'd want to tell you if we wanted the best spot for ourselves, so do what you will.) We're going to wait until the Expo folks officially post a change of venue before we start freaking out over what this enormous "non-Mac" announcement could be, but the first two words that pop into our heads are "Oracle" and "Palm..."
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/29/99 episode: June 29, 1999: P1 rumors play the yo-yo game with Apple's stock price. Meanwhile, what's the big "non-Mac" news that may prompt Steve Jobs to move his keynote address to 30 Rockefeller Plaza? It's probably not a Palm announcement, since the Apple-branded handheld has been put on the back burner until the P1 gets done...
Other scenes from that episode: 1633: Back On Track, Maybe (6/29/99) Ah, Wall Street-- the place where fortunes are determined as were victories in naval battles of old: they're won and lost due to tricks of the wind. The wind on Wall Street, though, is the hot air whispering through the rumor mill, and if you want a textbook illustration of just how strongly unsubstantiated rumors can affect a stock's performance, look no further than AAPL... 1635: A P1 In The Palm (6/29/99) Those of us who were hoping against hope for a big surprise Palm announcement at the upcoming Expo are probably going to be sorely disappointed. Ever since the Newton got the axe a while back, some of us have been waiting impatiently for the "Mac OS-based handheld" that was promised as a replacement...
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