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An Apple In The Palm (7/1/99)
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Are you itching to get your hands on one of these new-fangled Apple-Palm organizers that keep surfacing in rumors? Recently it's been widely reported that while prototype fruit-flavored units have been spotted around Apple's campus, Apple has had to pull resources off the project in order to get the "P1" consumer portable finished and out the door. Still, it's nice to think that Apple really is working on a successor to the ill-fated Newton, even if it turns out to be nothing more than a standard Palm in a colorful case with an Apple logo-- though, if it were, why would Apple have any resources dedicated to it at all? (We're hoping for so much more than just an Apple logo slapped onto a regular Palm, but we're trying not to get our hopes up too far.)
Now we're wondering just how much involvement Apple really has with the development of these elusive little PDAs. A MacCentral article cites a Reuters report about Palm's new president, Alan Kessler, in which a Palm spokesperson publicly states that the company is about to release "Palm computing devices in different colors, à la the popular iMac from Apple Computer Inc." Just one of those little things that makes you say "huh." So now we're trying to figure out whether this is some reference to the Apple-Palm collaboration, or if it's just Palm jumping on the "Now in Translucent Colors!" bandwagon along with everyone else making consumer electronic devices with plastic cases.
Despite the reports that Apple has had to put the Palm unit on the back burner in order to complete P1 development, we've heard more than a few whispers that we will see a big Apple-Palm announcement at the Expo in three weeks. Hmmm, could this be the "big non-Mac announcement" that is rumored to be moving the keynote address from the Javits Center to 30 Rockefeller Plaza? (Probably not, but it's still fun to wonder...)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/1/99 episode: July 1, 1999: Apple slaps Future Power with a lawsuit over the E-Power's strangely familiar design. Meanwhile, will the Power Mac G4 be pushed all the way back to a May 2000 introduction? And what's this Palm announcement about PDAs in different colors all about?...
Other scenes from that episode: 1636: This Should Be Easy (7/1/99) We're sure you've heard the news by now-- Apple's legal team has found themselves yet another case to keep them busy, only this time they're the ones on the attack. According to a short but sweet press release, Apple doesn't plan to sit back and smile meekly while other companies sully the iMac's good reputation by building cheap imitations... 1637: Well, SOMEBODY'S Late... (7/1/99) Whom to believe? Rumors of a Power Mac G4 delay are surfacing once again; a few weeks ago the whispers focused on how Motorola had allegedly fallen far behind schedule in its development of the actual PowerPC G4 chips that will eventually fuel Apple's next-generation systems, once widely expected sometime this fall...
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