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The Tears of a Clone (2/3/98)
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Cloning's not dead in the Mac world, right? Sure, the two biggest players are gone-- Power Computing sold its Mac OS license back to Apple and fell apart after trying to launch a foray into the Wintel market, while Motorola basically said "the hell with this" and quit in a tizzy. But UMAX remains, as do its sublicensees like PowerTools and MacTell, who have carved out a decent niche selling very low-cost Mac clones or high-end ultra-expandable boxes. It's not the open-systems gala that we all expected CHRP to bring about, but it's still something, right?
Right. At least, for a few more months. Word from the multiple sources over at O'Grady's PowerPage is that Apple plans not to renew UMAX's license agreement when it's due to expire this July. That deep-sixes UMAX's Mac business, as well as all of its little Mac-cloning family; no more six-slot G3-upgraded Supermacs for video editing, and no more sub-$1000 MacTell complete systems.
UMAX is apparently allowed to sell clones through the end of the year if its license lapses in July, though the fate of its sublicensees is unclear. On the bright side, Mac shoppers no longer have to strain their choice muscles when they go to buy a new system. And the Clone Wars will finally gain a sense of closure.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/3/98 episode: February 3, 1998: Rumors of big announcements that never come to pass continue to prove that you can have smoke where there's no fire. Meanwhile, Apple contemplates cutting the lifeline of the last of the cloners, and Microsoft catches a break in the latest episode of "Redmond Justice..."
Other scenes from that episode: 417: Rumors Who Cried Wolf (2/3/98) As expected, all of Apple met this morning to hear Steve Jobs talk about the State of the Apple. The Mac-using world held its breath and teetered on the edge of its seat, ready for anything: speculation ran wild in some circles about whether Steve would take the CEO post himself, or introduce another to step into his shoes; other factions expected to hear that the newly-rechristened Filemaker, Inc... 419: Microsoft Gets a Break (2/3/98) In today's episode of "Redmond Justice," the tide starts to turn as a federal appeals court rules that Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig must cease and desist his investigations as a "special master" in the Microsoft-Department of Justice conflict...
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