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By Any Means Necessary (10/2/01)
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Those of you out there who haven't yet made the jump to Mac OS X were likely not affected by the epidemic of 10.1 fever over the weekend; indeed, you're probably wondering what all the fuss was about. And we're not talking about 10.1 itself, which really is something of a marvel. No, we're talking about the mayhem that ensued when thousands of Mac OS X enthusiasts scrambled to get their hands on a limited number of free upgrade kits that would transform the sludgy quirks of 10.0.4 into the speed and polish of the Puma release. Lots of people came away empty-handed-- and even the ones that didn't may have lost a limb or two in the fracas.
No, there were no reports of police in riot gear firing tear gas canisters into the crowds, but unless you actually ventured forth in an attempt to grab one of these upgrade kits, you may not comprehend the level of craziness that burbled forth from a simple operating system point release. Luckily, you needn't rely on our tales of long lines and near-violence as frenzied customers scrambled for software; faithful viewer Jim Gaynor points out some video footage that was shot by one Jeff Davis on Saturday at The Computer Store, an authorized Apple reseller in Seattle. Check it out-- if you think your stomach can handle the sight of two hundred foaming-at-the-mouth Mac fans sinking to their lowest levels in the interest of software greed.
Hmmm... Well, actually, we've just taken a look at Jeff's movie, and it's definitely the G-rated Disney version, despite being titled "Almost A Riot." He appears to have edited out any scenes of primal violence, teeth rending flesh from bone, etc. What's left actually portrays Mac users as a civilized pack of smiling, social beings who just happen to be harmlessly loony enough to line up for an operating system update on a Saturday morning. (Okay, so maybe that's a reasonably accurate portrayal-- but we swear, in our line, one guy lost an arm.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/2/01 episode: October 2, 2001: Looks like there are going to be two retail grand openings this weekend-- or are there? Meanwhile, Mike Dell jumps ship for Sony (at least if Sony's latest laptop is any indication), and an alert eyewitness captures video footage of rampant carnage as a 10.1-crazed mob gets ugly...
Other scenes from that episode: 3335: Sssh-- Don't Tell Anyone (10/2/01) Saddle up, Mac fans, for it's once more into the retail breach! As we all know, the Germantown Apple store's grand opening is still on indefinite hold while Apple lovingly crafts a new sign to that community's exacting standards; the last we heard is that Apple's fourteenth effort was rejected for three reasons... 3336: We've All Seen This Before (10/2/01) Funny, we haven't seen anything in the trades about a major management shakeup in the Wintel industry, and yet we could swear that something absolutely huge happened a little while back. Perhaps the industry just doesn't consider it interesting, but personally, we'd have thought that Michael Dell leaving the company he founded to run the design department over in Sony's VAIO division constitutes some serious tech news...
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