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Apple Club Clubbed (1/2/98)
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In what could only be described as a long-overdue mercy killing, Macintouch reports that the Apple Club has finally been shut down, just less than a year after its problematic introduction. We were unable to connect to the Apple Club site to confirm this, but that fact in itself should tell you something...
...or, at least, it would, if not for the fact that people have always had trouble connecting to that site. Including its subscribers, who paid money for "easy access" to Apple software downloads on special "high-speed servers." Unfortunately, the Apple Club reality didn't share much with the marketing glitz. The troubles started right off the bat, with many people reporting that they were unable to sign up with a credit card via the web site-- until they suddenly found their credit card charged six or eight times for the subscription. And even after people were subscribed, performance from those supposed high-speed servers was benchmarking slower than downloading the software from Apple's standard ftp site, and downloads were often corrupted anyway. Macintouch has a long, long list of painful Apple Club experiences if you want to read about one of the worst Apple ventures in the company's history.
Frankly, we're kinda surprised Apple Club wasn't put out of its misery as soon as Apple increased the bandwidth and number of consecutive logins on its standard ftp servers. That alone basically made the Apple Club superfluous. Still, better late than never, hmmm?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/2/98 episode: January 2, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 321: Here Comes the Climb (1/2/98) Jump back-- AAPL's on the rise. Apple stock gained 3 and an eighth today, to close at 16 and a quarter. That's a one-day rise of about 24%. Not bad. Why the spike? Newsbytes thinks it's due to two factors... 323: Approaching Reality (1/2/98) Connectix's VirtualPC is already a miracle, as we've previously noted-- It lets a Powermac G3 266 run Windows NT at speeds about equivalent of a Pentium 133-166. That's plenty fast for most occasional use (though games-playing is another matter)...
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