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The Mouse Always Satisfies (3/2/01)
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It's the week after a Macworld Expo keynote address, and you know what that means-- it's lull time! Last week we nearly drowned in raw drama from which to spin our daily episodes, what with the rabid, frothing controversy surrounding the new iMac patterns, Steve in a suit, etc. Now, though, things have wound down, the excitement is over, and we can look forward to a couple of weeks of relative boredom (at least until Mac OS X ships). But while the calmness is relaxing, it also makes our lives a little bit tougher; after all, we still have to crank out a soap opera every day.
Longtime viewers know that at times like this, there's always one surefire source of cheap filler material: classic Apple rumors, which refuse to die and are always good for a quick scene or two when things are slow. Let's see, here, which shall it be this time? Mac OS X on Intel hardware? The 17-inch iMac? The Apple handheld? Actually, damn the torpedoes-- we're going for the granddaddy of them all: the Disney-Apple buyout rumor! What's more entertaining than the age-old whispers that The Mouse will swallow Apple whole, stick big round ears on the Apple logo, and crown Steve Jobs the ruler of the Magic Kingdom?
Don't change channels yet-- this time we've got proof! Faithful viewer Allen Huffman was sharp enough to catch a very interesting (not to mention revealing) piece over at DisneyFans.com. It seems that Disney's new California Adventure theme park contains extensive overt references to Apple in the Whoopi Goldberg-narrated film, "Golden Dreams"; in it, the Two Steves are shown introducing the first personal computer to an assemblage of '70s geeks, and at the end, the ghostly form of a modern-day Steve Jobs appears briefly on an iMac screen. Touching moments, to be sure, but don't take our word for it-- the article includes pictures, a complete transcript, and even QuickTime footage of the relevant bits.
Now, we ask you, would Apple be featured so prominently in a Disney production if a buyout weren't about to happen any day now? Yessiree, we're counting the seconds. (Uh, it's how many weeks until Mac OS X ships?)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/2/01 episode: March 2, 2001: Still more evidence surfaces that Mac OS X might not turn out to be all it's cracked up to be. Meanwhile, Motorola frantically cuts costs by-- get this-- sending half of its semiconductor employees on vacation, and if you continue to doubt the Disney-Apple buyout rumors, just check out the latest footage smuggled out of Disney's newest theme park for proof...
Other scenes from that episode: 2898: Cheetah's Fast, Puma Works (3/2/01) Still reeling in psychic pain from the anticipation of the soul-crushing inconvenience you'll suffer by not being able to play DVD movies after upgrading to Mac OS X 1.0 in a few weeks? Well, buckle in, Sparky, because your imminent inability to watch Scooby Doo on Zombie Island on your PowerBook may just turn out to be the icing on the Cake of Doom-- at least, that's the decidedly pessimistic view put forth by CNET... 2899: Take A Break Or Take A Walk (3/2/01) Ouch, the Motorola woes continue to mount like cars in a highway pile-up. In January the company announced that its cell phone business wasn't doing so well, thus necessitating the trimming of 2500 jobs and the closing of a plant...
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