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Call It Ten-Point-Whatever (2/26/02)
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Holy dyslexia, Batman-- confusion about Mac OS X's current version number is running rampant. First, faithful viewer Antoine McNamara nudged us towards a Computer Times review of the new iMac (a pretty glowingly favorable one, by the way) which claims that the system ships preloaded with Mac OS X "10.2.1." Are they reviewing iMacs that have travelled back in time from next November, or was it just a simple typo? If you accept the principle that the simplest explanation is usually correct, then you might be inclined to lean towards the latter-- especially since the article also incorrectly reports that the iMac's native screen resolution is "1024x640," so mistakes aren't exactly scarce around there. Fair enough.
But then how do you also explain the fact that Apple itself seems to be having trouble keeping track of which Mac OS X version is currently out? When faithful viewer addict told us that Apple's latest Mac OS X email update tells users that "Mac OS X 10.3.1" is available, at first we just shrugged it off as yet another typo, and probably a small and easily-missed one at that. But after two dozen more reports of the error streaming in from frustrated fans who got their hopes up too easily, faithful viewer Anthony pointed out a screenshot of the typo-- and considering that it's in a headline and is thus rendered in huge boldface type, it is indeed pretty tough to miss.
So what, exactly, is going on here? Either someone in the Mac OS X development team is packing a time dilation unit with a hair trigger and a broken safety, or something is inducing widespread typographical errors among people attempting to report Apple's operating system version numbers. We're tempted to blame it on some new frequency-jamming signal originating from somewhere in the Redmond vicinity that causes synapse misfires whenever anyone tries to say, write, or type a Mac OS X version number; it's annoying, to be sure, but it's hardly life-threatening. It'll really be time to worry when we walk into the Apple store and see shrink-wrapped boxes touting "Mac OS Y."
Incidentally, the real current version of Mac OS X is, as everyone knows, 10.1.5. You're welcome.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/26/02 episode: February 26, 2002: Apple finally kicks off the second wave of its ongoing retail invasion, with the first new store set to open in North Carolina. Meanwhile, there's an epidemic of erroneous Mac OS X version reports, including one from Apple itself, and Dell looks to "differentiate itself from its competitors" by emphasizing LCD displays...
Other scenes from that episode: 3592: Retail Days Are Back, Baby (2/26/02) It's back! It's back! Just when we thought it was gone for good, Apple has answered our prayers (or, at least, our thrice-daily bordering-on-harassment nagging email requests) and restored the "Coming Soon" section to its retail page!... 3594: Mike Dell Invents The LCD (2/26/02) We know, we know-- it's old hat to mention Mike Dell's Wacko "Hey, Look, I'm Steve Jobs" Copycat Move O' The Day, and given the increasingly obvious depth of the man's psychosis, it's probably also in pretty poor taste...
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