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As the Boardroom Turns (2/19/98)
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Okay, if Apple Recon is to be believed, things in Cupertino are getting too scary even for us (and that's saying something). They've posted a letter that seems to confirm yesterday's rumored shouting match between Steve Jobs, the rest of the Apple board, and CEO candidate Jim Cannavino. Recon's source claims that Jim's heading back to IBM to spread the word that "Apple is Jonestown after all," (ouch) "Heaven's Gate has been rebuilt" (owowow) and "Jobs is insane." (We'd classify that last one as an anticlimax.)
Will the rest of the Apple board accept Jobs' chasing away yet another CEO candidate? Things are probably reaching a fever pitch on that issue, so it's not inconceivable that the board will have to choose between Steve and Jim (or another CEO candidate) very soon. The Recon letter spirals off into an extended rant that covers Jobs' total incompetence, the mismanagement of Rhapsody, the destruction of Newton, the licensing renegotiations for QuickTime, and the potential buyout of Apple by Disney-- enough bile there to last anyone a couple of lifetimes. Wait a half-hour after eating before reading it.
Of course, the Recon letter was just that-- a letter. From one person. As such, it may not necessarily reflect what's really going on in the Apple board room, and Recon seems to love to post info that's, shall we say, "emotionally charged." Recall, for instance, their panic-stricken reaction to Steve Jobs' walkout during a CNBC interview, which actually had very little effect on anything afterwards. Still, that's an awful lot of smoke in that letter for there to be no fire at all. Steve! Jim! Simmer down or we'll turn this soap opera around and take you both home right now!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/19/98 episode: February 19, 1998: Boardroom shenanigans at Apple are at an all-time high. Meanwhile, Reports of fried hard disks continue to trickle in-- is the InfiniteOS the cause? And software whiz Avie Tevanian himself confirms that there's a Mac OS eMate in your future...
Other scenes from that episode: 466: More Danger Signs (2/19/98) After yesterday's third-hand report of an experienced Mac developer who claims to have had his hard disk corrupted by trying to run the InfiniteOS, that developer (an AtAT viewer!) wrote in to clarify... 467: Lite, Thin, and Svelte (2/19/98) And for the sake of balance, we'd like to point you towards some news over at Mac OS Rumors that's both positive and relatively innocuous. It sounds like we've received the first public confirmation of "Allegro Lite," the version of the Mac OS for so-called "thin" clients like the eMate...
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