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The REAL End Of The Drought (4/4/02)
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"In stock at last, in stock at last, thank Steve Almighty, they're in stock at last!" Okay, fine, so the prospect of finally being able to find scads of G4 iMacs in non-Apple-retail outlets may pale in comparison to the vision of an end to racial injustice and the advent of true freedom for all people regardless of race, color, or creed-- but hey, it's still pretty darn cool. Faithful viewer Bob Gulien tipped us off to a Macworld UK article which reports that ComputerWare, a string of Bay Area Mac stores, just got hit by a "deluge" of "hundreds of all three new iMac G4 models," and that its waiting list is now "history." iMacs for everybody! (Well, everybody with the cash, that is.)
Once we heard that, we did a little poking around, and right off the bat we noticed that both MacConnection and MacMall have at least some configurations in stock and ready to ship. Heck, MacMall actually claims to be sitting on over 1800 of the SuperDrive models, which, frankly, borders on sheer decadent excess-- especially considering that just a couple of weeks ago, plenty of resellers were reporting that they'd received maybe fifty new iMacs total since the January unveiling. And now some resellers are positively swimming in them-- and with any luck, soon the rest of the stores will be, too. Pretty soon G4 iMacs will be spilling out into the streets. It's like some sort of beautiful dream.
What this means, of course, is that as long as the iMac demand hasn't dropped off too much since last January, Apple is kicking this quarter off with a bang. Hey, maybe Steve can pull some strings and get the iMac back on the cover of Time-- you know, now that people can actually buy the things. (iMacs, that is, not Time covers.) At the very least, we wouldn't be at all surprised to see the "Window" commercial suddenly return to heavy rotation. Of course, if we were in charge, we'd probably force all Apple employees worldwide to wear iMac hats on their heads 24-7 to advertise the product. But then, we've been told we're abusive with power. Now KNEEL! Hahahahahaaaa!!!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/4/02 episode: April 4, 2002: Apple snaps up yet another company; this time it's a FireWire firm called Zayante. Meanwhile, Apple trims a few jobs, which is sure to prompt at least a couple of "Apple is going out of business" wonks to come crawling out of the woodwork, but at least the company finally manages to get a ton of new iMacs into resellers' hands...
Other scenes from that episode: 3668: Sounds Like A Luxury Sedan (4/4/02) Wow, is it just us, or does it seem like Apple has been on a real spending spree lately? Not even two full months ago, word got out that Apple had written a check for Nothing Real, the makers of the high-end compositing software "Shake" that has all of Hollywood a-quiverin'... 3669: Job Cuts Are Just "Job Nicks" (4/4/02) Judging by the number of viewers now wearing hardhats and hurriedly shoveling emergency supplies into basement bomb shelters (yes, we can see you-- hi!), apparently many of you have already heard the news: CNET reports that today Apple "cut a small number of jobs as part of an ongoing restructuring effort."...
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