As the Apple Turns: Scene 374: Grosse Verkäufe! (1/19/98)

Grosse Verkäufe! (1/19/98)

While Apple's first quarter profit of $47 million is an encouraging sign, other indications of a healthier Apple keep creeping up on us. The latest news is that Apple Germany reports that European sales jumped a whopping 47% last quarter, due primarily to sales of the zippy new G3 Powermacs. (Of course, we at AtAT aren't aware of how previous sales in Europe were, but we're hoping that 47% increase is significant, and doesn't represent, say, 147 Macs sold, up from a hundred.)

Unfortunately, while Apple's been playing the heartfelt strains of "Don't Count on the Second Quarter" after its miraculous profit, Apple Germany's manager Peter Dewald is singing the same tune. ("Bauen Sie nicht auf das zweite Viertel?") It's a shame that the profit comes just before Apple's weakest quarter of the year. Will Wall Street and the press overreact if a small loss is posted? Or is Apple just driving our hopes down in preparation for a dramatic Q2 profit?

By the way, occasionally accurate (and usually highly entertaining) German translations are available from the experimental Alta Vista "Babel fish" translation site. (For the less geeky crowd out there, the site is named after the Babel fish, a universal translator from the the fictional works of Apple Master Douglas Adams.) For potentially less entertaining (but much more accurate and thorough) translation services, may we humbly suggest our sponsor, N.O.W. Translations? ;-)

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The above scene was taken from the 1/19/98 episode:

January 19, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

372: Big Update, Little Pipe (1/19/98) It's here-- the "Bride of Buster" has been carried over the threshold. Mac OS 8.1 is now available for download from several sites, including Apple's own FTP servers and Download.com. The 16 MB update includes the latest Java virtual machine (MasOS Runtime for Java 2.0), support for DVD drives, a slew of bug fixes, and a new file system, HFS+, that actually doesn't require 33 KB of a 2 GB disk to store a file consisting of nothing but the words "minimum block size travesty."...
373: More Appeal Than Sense (1/19/98) Today, on "Redmond Justice:" Software giants Microsoft aren't accepting Judge Jackson's refusal to remove special master Lawrence Lessig from the case. Jackson blasted the company's request, calling their accusations that he is biased against Microsoft both "trivial" and "defamatory."...

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