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Vote Steve in 2000! (11/15/99)
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You can bet that Steve Jobs is doing a little Superior Dance right now. Sure, he may never have won Time's "Man of the Year" award, but at least now he can rightfully claim the honor of having beaten Bill Gates in someone's yearly list of movers and shakers. Faithful viewer Scott Nichols noted that Steve is Numero Uno in Upside Magazine's list of "Elite 100." They haven't posted the full list on their web site yet-- numbers 1 through 20 will be posted on Friday-- but if you have the dead tree edition of the December issue, you can read about Steve's coup right now.
As a MacCentral article notes, Steve's first-place finish is particularly cool because Gates finished second. Ooooh, that's gotta hurt. Poor Bill. Poor, poor Bill. Hey, Billy, are you gonna cry? Is widdle Billy-baby gonna start blubbering 'cause Big Bad Stevie stole the top spot? Awww, poor baby-- and all he's got to console himself is more money than most countries have and monopoly power over the biggest growth industry on earth... er, never mind. If Bill's at all upset over his second-place finish, he'll be right as rain after skeet-shooting a few Rembrandts and paying random people on the street twenty million dollars apiece to set their own pants on fire. (When you're that rich, it's easy to make your own entertainment.)
As for Steve, well, his stock's at an all-time high. We figure now's the time for him to throw his hat in the ring and jump right into the 2000 Presidential race. C'mon, he's got all the right qualities to win: he's a rich, white male; he's shown that he can take a once-solid but mismanaged company and make it insanely great again; his sins of the past are already common knowledge, thanks to TNT; and his Reality Distortion Field could secure him a victory by the widest margin in election history. Perhaps we should just start a write-in campaign, no?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/15/99 episode: November 15, 1999: Mac OS 9 is on store shelves-- why isn't it on new Mac hard drives? Meanwhile, Steve Jobs beats out Bill Gates for the top spot in Upside Magazine's "Elite 100" awards, prompting a grass-roots Presidential campaign, and Bill's Comdex keynote reveals that Microsoft is all about "choice"...
Other scenes from that episode: 1912: Petty Extortion (11/15/99) Hey! Where's our frickin' Mac OS 9? Apple assured us all that any new computers shipping after October 23rd would include the sparkly new operating system pre-installed on the hard drive, but what do we see when we start up our brand new iBook?... 1914: "We Shall Prevail!" (11/15/99) Sorry, drama fans-- Bill Gates' latest keynote address at Comdex wasn't nearly as much fun as the one in April of last year when Windows 98 crashed hard during a demo of its "improved ease of use." (For those of you who'd like to take a side-trip down memory lane and relive that fine moment, the InfoWorld Electric article describing the event is still available.)...
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