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Will Be Seen In Its Entirety (2/13/01)
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Do you ever tune in for a beloved TV show at its regularly-scheduled time and find yourself staring at the last two minutes of a football game, instead? We do. And foolishly, we stay tuned, hoping against hope that when the game is over and the program finally comes on, the network will start the show from the beginning and just push the whole night's schedule forward to accommodate the game having run long. Instead, of course, we generally find that when the last two minutes of the game finally expire some twenty minutes later, we're faced with that dreaded phrase, "we now join our regularly-scheduled program, already in progress." If we had only known that sooner, we could have just cut our losses and spent half an hour playing Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab instead.
Our point is, the last thing we want to do is give any of you people false hope, so we figure we'd better clarify our previous statement that build-to-order PowerBook G4 systems from the Apple Store wouldn't ship until February 24th. The fact of the matter is, several BTO PowerBook customers did receive email from Apple stating that their orders would ship "by February 24th"-- but several others did not. And among those people who didn't get the February 24th apology, there are some (such as faithful viewers Mike McHargue and Sunflower) who just received similar letters from Apple-- only their scheduled ship date is March 3rd.
Now, you can't necessarily read anything into this, but personally, if we had ordered a BTO PowerBook from the Apple Store and we hadn't received either the February 24th or the March 3rd email messages, we'd be waiting for notification of, say, a March 10th or 17th ship date any day now. You may choose to be more optimistic, of course. All we're saying is, if Apple didn't email you with a specific delivery date, don't assume you've been lumped in with others who did get email. Life's too short for false assumptions. And on the plus side, no matter how late your PowerBook turns out to be, at least you know it won't be completely pre-empted by a sporting event.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/13/01 episode: February 13, 2001: Apple's quarterly 10-Q filing contains the usual list of bogeymen and things that go bump in the night. Meanwhile, some twisted freak appropriates Anna Kournikova's good name for evil purposes, though Mac users are unaffected, and Apple is now telling some BTO PowerBook G4 customers that their orders won't ship until March 3rd...
Other scenes from that episode: 2859: Bugaboos And Scary Stuff (2/13/01) It's that time again-- time for Apple's quarterly 10-Q filing with the SEC, and thanks to the magic of the Internet (long may its light illuminate our path to new and creative forms of work avoidance!), you lucky fans get to read the whole thing online if you're so inclined... 2860: Oh, Anna, How Could You? (2/13/01) Another day, another several hundred email messages to sift through. As usual, the obvious spam goes right in the trash-- we don't need a low-cost merchant account, we don't want a million email addresses so we can send spam ourselves, and we've got some real college degrees that obviate the need for any cheap fakes (as tempting as a couple of PhDs from "Harvarf University" may be)...
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