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Countdown To Color (2/3/00)
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The clock is ticking... Go2Mac reports that the official, Palm-branded Palm IIIc is now entered in the Best Buy computer system. It sports 8 MB of RAM, the long-awaited color screen, and a $450 price tag. Oh, and an availability date of February 20th.
Now, we're certainly not ones to put a whole lot of stock into product ship dates entered into the systems of stores like Best Buy or CompUSA-- or even the Apple Store, for that matter, whose ship dates always seem way off to us. Still, if we're to take that February 20th ship date as gospel, then Apple's got a mere two weeks or so in which to release the first color Palm device, as rumored. Is this shaking our resolve that the Apple-branded Palm is real? Nope, not a bit. But we're a bit skeptical that it'll surface within the next fortnight, maybe just because we've been waiting for so long already.
Then again, think about what big event falls squarely within that time frame. Yup, Macworld Expo Tokyo kicks off on February 16th. We know, we know, Apple's never unveiled a major product at an overseas Expo in the past-- but an Apple-branded Palm wouldn't fit into the "magic square" of product lines, and the Japanese market would be especially interested in an Apple-branded handheld computing device. Who knows? The more optimistic among you may want to start praying for an Apple-Palm introduction in the Land of the Rising Sun. Hey, anything's possible. But don't ask us for odds.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/3/00 episode: February 3, 2000: iToolsgate is quelled in mere days, following quick action on the part of Apple's lawyers; welcome to the era of the kinder, gentler iTools Member Agreement. Meanwhile, FreeMac.com calls it quits due to Apple's resistance, and Palm readies its first color device for a February 20th debut-- where's Apple's?...
Other scenes from that episode: 2074: Buh-Bye, iToolsgate (2/3/00) Well, there's the end of that little fracas... No sooner does the Mac community work itself into a seething, frothing, foaming-at-the-mouth state of righteous indignation at Apple's misdeeds when suddenly Apple has to go and spoil everything by doing the right thing... 2075: And So Long, FreeMac (2/3/00) So let's say you're a formerly-beleaguered computer company trying to increase your installed base and market share past a critical mass in order to attract more developers to your platform. Now let's say that a third-party venture wants to purchase a million of your computers and give them away to rabid consumers looking for a free ride-- a figure which represents perhaps half of the total sales numbers for that particular wildly-successful model...
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