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Five Days To Bliss-- Really! (3/19/01)
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So we spent the last week skulking around in a bitter funk, because reports continued to roll in from people who had pre-ordered Mac OS X and had watched Apple upgrade their FedEx shipping to Saturday delivery at no extra charge. Yes, Christmas came early for those impatient whelps who had decided to spare no expense for the fastest delivery possible; since Mac OS X is officially being released this Saturday, most had assumed that overnight delivery really meant an arrival the following Tuesday-- Monday at the very earliest. Instead, Santa Steve will be dispatching clipboard-bearing elves to the homes of those impatient boys and girls to ensure that they get their Aqua fix on the very same day the product hits store shelves.
And why were we upset at Steve's thoughtful little delivery upgrade? We'll tell you why; because after our decidedly Kafkaesque experience with FedEx delivery for the Mac OS X public beta (which wound up not getting us our goods any faster than UPS Ground probably would have anyway), when we pre-ordered the full version of Mac OS X, we opted for standard ground shipping. So while all those people who paid extra for FedEx this time around will actually be licking their screens come Saturday, the AtAT staff will be forced to wait another "3-7 business days" before joining in the revolution. Or so we thought.
That's when faithful viewer David Rogers turned our frowns upside-down, by telling us that his Mac OS X pre-order had been upgraded to Saturday delivery... but from UPS Ground, not from FedEx Overnight! Many's the time we had checked on our order status this past week, hoping against hope that our standard shipping had been replaced with the magical Saturday deal, to no avail. But after David's email rekindled a spark of faith, we checked once more-- and praise the Dock Genie and all the Aqua gods and goddesses, there it was, plain as day: Requested Carrier: FED EX SATURDAY DELIVERY. Thanks, Steve!
While a pre-order from Apple still isn't the absolute fastest way to get a copy of Mac OS X-- visit a reseller holding a "midnight madness" celebration or fly to Australia to get it sooner-- it suddenly just got a whole lot better. We suppose we'd better clear our jam-packed social schedules for this Saturday, because suddenly we're going to have an awful lot to do. Gee, guess that means we'll be missing the XFL. What a shame...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/19/01 episode: March 19, 2001: Did you pre-order Mac OS X? Then make sure you're home on Saturday to answer the door for the FedEx guy. Meanwhile, Apple is laying people off, but few enough that the reduction in headcount can be blamed on "attrition," and Germany bans the use of all Microsoft software when sensitive data is involved, citing a Microsoft-NSA Marvel Team-Up...
Other scenes from that episode: 2932: Yeah, We Spoke Too Soon (3/19/01) Wouldn't you know it? Mere hours after we stated that "at least we haven't heard of any Cupertino pink slips" last week, someone had to go and prove us wrong. C'mon, folks, we appreciate the effort, but we don't need anyone's help to make us look bad; we can manage that just fine all by ourselves... 2933: Perhaps It'll Start A Trend (3/19/01) We've always found it a tad inconsistent that the U.S. government is locked in a tooth-and-nail antitrust cage match with Microsoft and yet still standardizes on Microsoft software across the organization...
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