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Digging Ever Deeper (11/13/97)
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Michael Dell doesn't seem to get it. Several weeks ago he makes a catty comment about Apple needing to be shut down, and now he seems taken aback that Steve Jobs responded in kind last Monday. A PC Week Online article reports that Mike thinks Steve's response was "silly."

Okay, to his credit, he says that his own comment was "silly," too. But if he really wishes the whole issue would go away, calling Steve "silly" doesn't seem to be the way to go. Mike could take lessons in diplomacy from Nikita Khrushchev and it'd be an improvement. (By the way, we happen to think Steve is silly, much to his credit, while Mike appears to be merely clueless, which is just dull.)

For an example that we feel reveals his lack of vision, Dell added that the market has already voted for Wintels over Macs. Gee, and the American population voted Clinton into office, so I guess we shouldn't discuss alternatives, hmm? Goodness gracious.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/13/97 episode:

November 13, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

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  • 177: Lovin' the Blues (11/13/97)   When the initial developer release of Rhapsody shipped a month ago, people were a little bummed out that the Blue Box wasn't included. The Blue Box, as you probably know, is the Mac OS compatibility module of Rhapsody that will allow us to run today's standard Mac applications...

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