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Jobs' Shindig Cut Short? (11/12/97)
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We aren't the only ones who noticed that Apple's two-and-a-half-hour media event wound up being just about an hour long, and wondered if some deal fell through at the last minute. Apple Recon has been murmuring about the possibility, and today, a MacOS Rumors source provides further evidence that all was not right at the Flint Center.
It seems that Apple broke from their traditional method of informing European journalists about Apple news at afternoon press conferences, and instead invited them to watch the event live at 8PM local time, indicating something huge. It's unlikely that the Apple Store and build-to-order systems constitute "huge news" in the "live evening overseas teleconference" sense. Moreover, the president of Apple Europe had been flown to Cupertino to see the event live. And according to Rumors' source, the dinner for the journalists--originally scheduled for 10:30PM--began over an hour earlier, due to the announcement being so short.
If there was supposed to be really big news, but it wasn't quite ready for announcing by showtime on Monday, does that mean we can expect a bombshell from Apple sometime in the near future? Perhaps the Apple/Oracle partnership is still to come. In the meantime, we'll bask in the continued success of the Apple Store; Webintosh is reporting that the direct sales department at Apple has logged $1.4 million in sales in the two days it's been open. Not bad...
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Other scenes from that episode: 172: COS Imminent (Uh-huh) (11/12/97) Welp, tomorrow's the big day for Omega, the German developers who claim that sometime in the next 24 hours they will ship COS-- their Mac OS 8-compatible, high-security, low-RAM-footprint, low-disk-space, high-performance "alternative OS" for Macs and Mac compatibles... 174: The First Hit's Free... (11/12/97) Just a quickie, here... Macintouch included a link to an interesting Microsoft sales pitch the other day. This page is a targeted hard-sell of Windows NT servers to K-12 schools who are running Macintosh clients, whether in a mixed-platform environment, or in a Mac-exclusive setting. The ad copy really makes a strong case for buying an NT server for your school network, even though it contains some half-truths and even some outright lies (they're still claiming that NT is certified for C-2 security?)...
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