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1998: Apple UMAXintosh? (10/2/97)
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A few days ago, we said that of the Big Three, UMAX may have emerged as the lone survivor of the Clone Wars because they never publicly attacked Apple's policies. (Read: SUCK-UP.) Well, today a MacOS Rumors source provides some very interesting insight that shows there may be much more going on under the table.

According to this fly-on-the-wall, UMAX approached Apple with a plan to cut Apple's R&D expenses by taking on more of Apple's hardware burden. Apple plans to cut costs by reducing its development of hardware, and that's where UMAX comes in. If this source is to be believed, UMAX will work on motherboard designs for future Apple Macintosh computers. (UMAX makes some killer hardware; seen their CacheDoubler technology?) By now you've heard the plan favored by some Apple-watchers that Apple should divest its interest in hardware and become a pure software company; this UMAX partnership represents a similar strategy, without taking away Apple's primary source of income (selling Macs).

In addition to UMAX working on Apple motherboards, Rumors is reporting that Apple is outsourcing development of graphics cards to ATI, and other specialized cards to Radius. Apple is then in a better position to concentrate on software development and systems integration, the areas in which it has always shone. If this all turns out to be true, it sounds like a smart plan and a great step in Apple's return.

 
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October 2, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 44: Keynote Kapers (10/2/97)   Did anyone else have a chance to tune into Steve Jobs' keynote address at Seybold? There are some great articles on it over at Webintosh, News.Com, and MacNN. We caught the last three-quarters of it, and were very impressed...

  • 46: Billy Meets Mozilla (10/2/97)   According to Nando.net, those nutty kids are at it again... Billy Gates' browser bunnies got a little giddy at a company party (suppose any of them have outside lives?) and erected (uhhh... huh huh huh...)...

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