|
Like a Country Song (3/3/98)
|
 
|
| | |
Brace yourself, 'cause everyone's favorite ultra-depressing doom-and-gloomer is back in action. After a week and a half of no posted updates (during which time they continued to show the now-infamous "Apple is Jonestown after all" letter), Apple Recon has finally completed their problematic move to bigger digs. And what's the first thing they post? A note from a source who claims that the whole city of Hollywood has "turned against Jobs" because of the recent Newton developments. "We all think he must be terminated," says the source.
Once you get past that little love note, you can go on to read about how Apple may be planning to "axe" several catalog resellers, similarly to how they just pulled out of all national retail stores except for CompUSA. Speculation abounds as to which companies may be cut. (MacConnection and MacWarehouse will most likely survive.) And just to make things even more fun, that's followed by talk about a group of investors planning a media-grabbing uprising at the upcoming shareholders meeting, with the primary purpose of ousting Steve Jobs; and the media attention this particular group would attract, we are assured, would be "seriously bad" for Apple.
Personally, we at AtAT don't recommend that you read Apple Recon if you're "sensitive" about hearing that Apple is headed straight towards dire, catastrophic debacle. But for those of you who can stomach the steady torrent of bad news, it can be kind of fun in a sick, twisted way if you take it with a big block of salt. We'd draw comparisons to country music, but that would just get tiresome. ;-)
| |
| |
 |
SceneLink (501)
|  |
 |
|
And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors |
| | | |
|
| |
|
 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/3/98 episode: March 3, 1998: After a brief hiatus, Apple Recon is back and spreading their own inimitable brand of fear and loathing. Meanwhile, more details of Apple's upcoming sub-$1K machine become available, and Microsoft inspires 27 states to support the DoJ's lawsuit...
Other scenes from that episode: 502: Pinch Us, We're Dreaming (3/3/98) But for positive rumors about Apple's prospects, look no further than the ever-awesome Mac OS Rumors. One of their sources at Apple reports that he's actually seen the upcoming Artemis all-in-one Mac, unfortunately dubbed the "Power Macintosh G3 Home," and its features are nothing to sneeze at... 503: Majority Rule (3/3/98) Now that we've roller-coastered through today's dizzying highs and terrifying lows of Apple Computer, let's take a quicky peek at a completely different plot thread-- namely, Microsoft's ongoing anti-trust shenanigans...
Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast... | |  |
|
|
