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Recon Guesses Nice Q1 (12/28/97)
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Now, don't go jumping up and down just yet, but Apple Recon is speculating that Apple may do better than expected this quarter-- and they may even post a profit. Yes, we know that flies in the face of just about everything we've all been hearing, but Recon has a pretty decent track record when it comes to predicting stuff like this. Information from Apple sources (who risked "job, limb, and life" to report in) about "awesome" G3 sales and Apple Store success indicates that Apple may have already beat its predicted sales performance mark and may be poised to surprise Wall Street when the final numbers become public. Recon even interprets the recent cancellation of Apple's post-MacWorld Expo sales meeting as a possible reason to celebrate (strange, but true).

Recon, as usual, posts heavy caveats around their prediction, stating that other sources are contradictorily reporting that Apple's sales are "terrible." But it's nice to dream... Can you all imagine a profitable quarter? We can hardly remember what they're like. (We don't count the Amelio profit, since it seemed so obviously a result of number-juggling in order to qualify for a bonus.)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 12/28/97 episode:

December 28, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 307: In Good Hands (12/28/97)   The San Jose Mercury News has a nice human-interest article about Apple's recent donation of twenty years' worth of Apple memoribilia to Stanford's "History of Silicon Valler" library. As previously noted, Apple finally decided it couldn't afford to open a museum celebrating its own past, and gave 2000 boxes of AppleStuff™ to the Stanford collection...

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