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After All, It's Only Money (8/31/01)
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You say it's your lifelong dream to meet Steve Jobs face to face, and maybe have him drop by for dinner one night? Well, giddyup on the Fantasy Horse, pardner, because we know exactly how you can make your dream come true. All you need to do is learn how to cook for a vegan, have lots of bottled water on hand, and buy 23,000 iBooks. Really, now, what could be simpler?
In fact, you don't even have to buy 23,000 iBooks-- leasing them will apparently work just fine, too. At least, that's the only conclusion we can draw from The Stevester's personal appearance at the Henrico County school year convocation today. Yes, according to the Times-Dispatch, Steve himself took time out of his busy schedule to visit the school district in person in order to "underscore the local school system's decision to embrace the wireless iBooks." You remember this deal, right? Back in May when the new iBooks were first unveiled, Apple announced that Henrico County had leased twenty-three grand of the little white doohickeys, constituting "the largest portable computer sale to education ever." (Insert "nyaah nyaah" addressed to Mike Dell here.) This is therefore an important enough event, politically speaking, to warrant some face time by Steve himself.
So if you're really serious about getting to meet Steve, head on over to the Apple Store and place an order for 23,000 iBooks-- or maybe 25,000, just to be on the safe side. You'll probably have to donate them all to your local school system before Steve will really feel compelled to drop by and thank you in person, but maybe you could keep one or two for yourself, if you're subtle about it. And we don't want to hear any whining about the balance you're going to have to carry on your credit cards after pulling this little stunt. After all, what's $32 million when we're talking about the fulfillment of a lifelong dream?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 8/31/01 episode: August 31, 2001: Tomorrow marks another Apple retail store grand opening-- and AtAT will be there making history. Meanwhile, word has it that Germantown, Tennessee has denied Apple's request for a variance allowing the company to mark its store with its own corporate logo, and Henrico County, Virginia learns what it takes to get Steve Jobs to drop by for a visit...
Other scenes from that episode: 3278: The AtAT Retail Tour 2001 (8/31/01) Another weekend, another shiny new Apple retail store... but, of course, this latest one's special to us, because it's going to be the AtAT staff's "local" location for a few months at least... 3279: Some Crazy Food Phobia? (8/31/01) Speaking of Apple's retail stores, having only been to one so far, we can't say for certain-- but we strongly suspect that if you've seen one, in some sense you've seen them all. Sure, there are going to be variations in square footage and the size of the window displays, but based on the photos we've seen, Apple is trying hard to keep the Apple retail experience as consistent as possible...
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