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Last of the Big Cloners (9/30/97)
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The South China Morning Post ran a story that assures us that UMAX will continue its role as "Last of the Big Cloners" on AtAT for at least a little while longer. The article states that Apple has agreed to license Mac OS 8 to UMAX until at least the middle of 1998.

Interestingly, when asked why they are the last major cloner still working with Apple, Alpha Tsai (UMAX's Associate VP for Sales and Marketing) attributes their staying power to their ability to maintain a "friendly relationship" with Apple. As anyone remotely in touch with any marketing department knows, that's marketingspeak for "lap dog." Every noticed how UMAX is the only cloner that never seems to have publicly tackled Apple on renaming Tempo "Mac OS 8?" Or for refusing to certify CHRP or 750-based systems? Is this superhuman restraint and good business sense, or just plain spinelessness?

Regardless, given their seemingly endless capacity for bearing the repeated injuries inflicted by their "partner" (and keeping a smile), it looks like UMAX might be the Apple-approved token cloner for some time. (We hear they build great systems, too.)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/30/97 episode:

September 30, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 38: Intriguing Developments (9/30/97)   Big changes in Apple's attitude towards developers! Check out their press release, in which they reveal that they'll be shipping many of their developer tools to members of their Developer Programs in November-- for free...

  • 40: Life's a Picnic (9/30/97)   Scripting.com had an interesting note about an Apple company picnic thrown by Steve Jobs himself, in celebration of the kickoff of the "Think Different" campaign. At the gathering, Steve mentioned that the response to the new ad was 75% favorable (which is very similar to the 76.8% we've seen so far in our survey)...

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