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Other Steve: 9's Just Fine (1/9/03)
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And if one harbinger of doom isn't enough for you today, how about this Macworld headline? "Even Woz Still Uses Mac OS 9." That's right, folks; apparently the Other Steve, a man well-respected-- nay, deified-- for his technological prowess and vision (remember, he's the one who built the actual computers while Jobs built the company), has sided with the anti-Mac OS X crowd and chosen to stick steadfastly with old-school tech. Is he a "Save Fitts's Law" activist? Is he religiously opposed to the overuse of horizontal stripes? We can't say. But if Apple's cofounder is pooh-poohing the company's next-generation operating system, clearly it won't survive the snub.
And you all know what comes next, right? The financial collapse of Apple, Jobs's return to his home planet in shame, Microsoft's further entrenchment in all things tech, Bill Gates's eventual role as Grand High Emperor of Earth, and his sale of half the human race as slave labor and food to the alien beings who have long secretly designed his product's interfaces. Consternation! Uproar! The sky is falling! The End is Nigh! These pretzels are making me thirsty!!
Or not. Okay, okay... we admit it, that headline is a little overly alarmist. If you read the actual article, you'll learn that Woz does use Mac OS X-- but anybody who owns dozens of Macs is bound to own several that run better with older operating systems. (Heck, we've got a Mac Classic here in the AtAT compound running nothing but System 7.0.1 and KeyWack; that doesn't mean we aren't all Jaguariffic on the G4.) Says Woz, "I use [Mac OS X] but I have computers with [Mac OS 9] doing important tasks. Why would I switch when it just works forever?" Fair enough.
And even though he agrees that, for cost and/or compatibility reasons, it's still not the right time for everybody to upgrade to Mac OS X, he does note that "new Macintosh users are best served by choosing Mac OS X for their first machine," pointing out that it'll offer a far better experience" than Mac OS 9. So there you have it: Woz is not a HIG-thumping anti-Aqua "Give me Platinum or give me death" firebrand. And, you know, we're almost a little sad about that; the future of mankind as a slave race to aliens notwithstanding, it would've made for some nice plot twists...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/9/03 episode: January 9, 2003: Safari sets a new first-day download record as the fans go ape. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs has a few words to say on CNBC about the state of the economy, and Steve Wozniak ISN'T USING MAC OS X! Well, at least not exclusively...
Other scenes from that episode: 3896: Gotta Have It Now Now NOW (1/9/03) Sounds like Apple's got a hit on its hands, at least if the ratings are any indication; MacMinute reports that, during a keynote of his own yesterday, Phil "Love Me, Love My Carpet" Schiller revealed that no fewer than 300,000 rabid Mac users descended upon Apple's hapless flock of servers and snapped up the public beta release of Safari, the company's spiffy new web browser, on its first day of release... 3897: Steve: We're All Gonna Freeze (1/9/03) So we stumbled across a notice at MacMinute yesterday informing us that Steve Jobs was slated to make a guest appearance on CNBC's Business Center show last night-- which is just about the only thing that'd ever get us to tune in to CNBC in the first place, because we're actually pretty allergic to that sort of all-financial and/or -news programming...
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