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Just Keep The Speech Short (1/31/02)
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C'mon, how many entities actually manage to score major entertainment industry awards in the fields of both broadcast television and recorded music? Not many, we'll wager, so it's definitely noteworthy that, on top of winning one Emmy for its "Think different" commercial and another for inventing FireWire, now our own beloved Apple has to clear a space on its trophy shelf for a Grammy, as well. And no, it's not for Phil Schiller's soulful rendition of "Let's Get It On," popular as that was in Europe; faithful viewer Bill Rutledge informs us that it's a technical Grammy for the company's "inventiveness and versatility" which has made Apple "the leading architect in bringing computer technology into the studio and revolutionizing the way music is written, produced, mixed, recorded, and creatively imagined."
Check it out, all the details are in an official Grammy press release; come February 26th (the day before the big Grammy shindig), Apple will receive its award alongside its co-honoree Robert Moog, otherwise known as Mr. Synthesizer. In suitably gushing fashion (this is about an award, after all), the press piece goes on about "the Mac's user-friendly interface," the way it's "linking technology to the creative process," and how it "became the touchstone of a new model for producing recorded music" by "literally changing the face of the recording studio." (If you think the acceptance speeches are long-winded, you've clearly never read the press releases before.)
Congrats to Apple, then, for securing its place on the recording industry's Wall of Honor. Now all Apple needs to do is score a Tony award for Steve Jobs's one-man Broadway show "I'll Park Wherever I Damn Well Please," and the company will have an entertainment award hat trick going on. Meanwhile, we imagine that Mike Dell is off buying himself a couple of Golden Globes even as we speak...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/31/02 episode: January 31, 2002: The new GHz Power Macs aren't quite up to everyone's demanding standards-- so what's next? Meanwhile, Henrico County begins the laborious process of "de-funning" 11,000 student iBooks, and Apple wins a Grammy for just generally being a kick-ass computer in the recording studio...
Other scenes from that episode: 3539: The NEW New Power Macs (1/31/02) Grouse, grouse, grouse; man, Apple clearly had the right idea in mind when it decided on a low-key intro for the new Power Macs if all this complaining is any indication. Given how long it took to get here, you'd think that the G4 finally reaching 1 GHz would be cause for celebration-- and the fact that Apple's giving us two of them would be cause for thundering applause, merrymaking in the streets, and a bunch of arrests for public drunkenness... 3540: De-Funning 11,000 iBooks (1/31/02) In light of the current brouhaha in Maine over Governor King's plan to chuck $25 million at Apple in exchange for a couple of dozen dozen dozen dozen iBooks for that state's junior high school students, it's probably worth checking back in with good ol' Henrico County in Virginia, who attempted a similar educational initiative in its own high schools starting last year...
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