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UK: Good News, For Once (8/13/01)
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Attention, UK Mac users: Apple apologizes for the way it's kicked you folks around for the past several years. That's right; Apple is sorry for all the cancelled Expo appearances, the elimination of the British-localised English Mac OS, last year's widespread layoffs, etc. and has decided to make reparations. At least, that's the way we've chosen to interpret the new software bundle that Apple has seen fit to include with new iMacs-- but only iMacs sold in the U.K. (Sorry, Tennessee!)
Check it out, friends: in addition to the usual software that Apple crams onto the hard disks of every iMac (e.g. AppleWorks, iTunes, iMovie, Bugdom, etc.), UK customers get a slew of additional titles-- and this is no sack full of aging shovelware. Some of this is A-list material; for instance, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation is included, and that's a relatively recent helping of Croftian entertainment. You also get Escape From Monkey Island, which we think just came out last month. UK iMac buyers get this stuff for free. It's almost enough to make us Yanks regret having started all that trouble back in the mid-late 1700s. Sure, we have liberty and representation in the government that taxes us, but they get free games!
As for whether this special software bundle constitutes just the first step in a newfound policy of Anglophilia at Apple, well, that remains to be seen. Personally, we wouldn't count on it-- there's a reason they refer to Steve as "mercurial." Our advice? Take advantage of the free games offer while you can, before Apple reverts to type and starts spraying UK-bound hardware with anthrax and Agent Orange or something.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/13/01 episode: August 13, 2001: The AtAT staff couldn't be present at last Saturday's Apple store opening-- but we'll be at the next on in the Chicago area. Meanwhile, more rumors surface about Apple's alleged new server hardware, but don't expect it anytime in this lifetime, and UK iMac customers get extra free software; is this a fresh new page in the sordid history of Anglo-Apple relations?...
Other scenes from that episode: 3236: Four Down And 21 To Go (8/13/01) They're spreading like pod people, only this time we're rooting for the pods. (Okay, we admit it-- we always root for the pods. Go, pods!) On Saturday Apple opened its fourth retail store, this time at Minnesota's scarily huge Mall of America-- and by all accounts, the grand opening was a smashing success... 3237: Mac Server: Any Eon Now (8/13/01) Hands up, who wants a Mac server? We mean, a real Mac server? There's been literally zero public acknowledgment by Apple that the company is hard at work on crafting a Mac that even a corporate IT dweeb could love, but we've been hearing whispers about honest-to-goodness rack-mountable, fault-tolerant, hot-swappable-component server Macs for a few months, now...
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