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Ready for Prime Time (3/10/98)
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Sorry as we are to have to miss next week's Seybold conference, our spirits are lifted slightly by the announcement that Steve Jobs' keynote will be broadcast via satellite downlink, both to your very own dish and to the Apple Offices in eight cities. Satellite info and registration for viewing at your local Apple office is available on an Apple Seminars page. If you have a satellite dish, or you can escape work to watch from Apple's offices, you're luckier than we are.
All hope is not lost for us, though, as we're hearing that the speech will also be we webcast by various organizations, including Apple. Unfortunately, as we've seen time and time again, webcasting is still in its dark ages, and we're expecting ridiculously overloaded servers and bandwidth clog to render the keynote unavailable. If we happen to get lucky, we'll probably post a midday extra summarizing what we hear and how we react. Jobs is expected to announce several new Apple products, such as the hypercool 15" LCD monitor, a new 300 MHz Powermac G3, possibly the Wall Street and Main Street Powerbooks, and maybe even the Mac NC and Columbus.
Incidentally, Jobs isn't the only keynote speaker we're sorry we're missing; Nicholas Negroponte is also delivering an address. You may know Negroponte as the guy who writes the last-page article for Wired magazine. He also happens to be the director of the MIT Media Lab, where we once frittered away many a youthful night making holograms in the basement. Negroponte's an interesting guy who works in a really interesting place, and we're sure he'll bring some great thoughts to share.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/10/98 episode: March 10, 1998: Someone squealed, and now everyone's talking about Apple's new information appliance. Meanwhile, Steve Jobs is ready for his close-up via satellite downlink and webcasts next week, and Microsoft continues to (yawn) argue that the DoJ is speaking nonsense...
Other scenes from that episode: 522: Cat Out of the Bag (3/10/98) Believe it or not, AtAT actually does have a few well-placed "sources" who occasionally choose to submit material for the show's scripts, purely on a freelance basis. Most of the time, we choose to defer talking about some of the dirt that gets dished because we consider the possibility of Apple losing a competitive edge if products are publicly discussed before Apple's ready... 524: Time for a Plot Twist (3/10/98) And the "Redmond Justice" wheel grinds on... Yesterday, Microsoft filed their final written arguments in their appeal to overturn Judge Jackson's preliminary injunction-- which prevents them from requiring that Wintel manufacturers ship Internet Explorer loaded on each and every Windows 95 system...
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