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What's Another Week Or So? (3/5/01)
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What's a Monday without a little extra unfounded angst? Far be it from us to start any nasty rumors-- spreading them, on the other hand is pretty much our whole raison d'être. So, in the spirit of Monday and the post-Expo news lull, we'd like to add to your existing load of Mac OS X anxiety by passing along a vaguely worrisome tale which, if you use your imagination, may just hint at a possible delay in the release of Apple's next-generation operating system.
It used to be that word of yet another Mac OS X delay wasn't even news-- it was just par for the course. After all, we've been waiting for a modern Mac operating system for a decade or so; even if you only start the clock when Apple bought NeXT, we're still talking about more than four years. Things have changed, though; ever since Uncle Steve committed to a firm March 24th, 2001 ship date, we've just generally assumed that Apple really would ship the first copies on that date and no later. Surely the threat of Steve's wrath would give new meaning to the word "deadline." But what's this? Faithful viewer Scott Learmonth wrote in to tell us that he just got email from the Apple Store informing him that Mac OS X is "backordered" and may not ship when anticipated.
Was it just an Apple Store bug? Yeah, probably, since we completely fail to understand how a product that isn't shipping yet can be "backordered." There's also the fact that we preordered Mac OS X, and we didn't receive any such word of a backorder. In fact, while automated email messages announcing demand-incurred delays of PowerBooks, Power Macs, iMacs, and Cubes have become commonplace, Scott is the only one who reported getting the dreaded Apple Store backorder email referring to a Mac OS X order. That's not to say that he's lying (perish forbid!), but hopefully his Mac OS X backorder notice was just yet another Apple Store hiccup. But if it wasn't, well, heads are going to roll in Cupertino...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/5/01 episode: March 5, 2001: Oh, yeah-- remember those Apple retail stores that are supposed to open next month? Because we had pretty much completely forgotten. Meanwhile, MacWEEK finally calls it quits and is assimilated into MacCentral, and one Mac OS X customer receives Apple Store email saying that his order may not ship when anticipated...
Other scenes from that episode: 2901: REAL Shopping? How Quaint (3/5/01) You know, there was a long-standing "rumor" that we had originally pegged as a shoe-in for the January Stevenote, but it never showed... and the "wow factor" of the other announcements (that 733 MHz G4, the Superdrive, the titanium PowerBook, etc.) was so high we didn't even notice... 2902: The Lights Are Finally Out (3/5/01) Here's a brain-teaser for you: what would happen, rhetorically speaking, if a widely-read weekly Mac-centric print magazine decided to move to an entirely online presence as its print incarnation first went cross-platform and then died amid a million yawns?...
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