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Sour Grapes (Er, Apples) (3/19/98)
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Here's a puzzler for you: What do you do if you're the CEO of a financially-troubled multibillion-dollar computer company who hired you to turn them around, but then you get booted out for not turning things around fast enough? Give up? Why, you write a tell-all book, of course. That's right; it seems as though former cast member Gil Amelio is just a tad bitter about getting kicked off the show, and the sordid tales of scandal and intrigue in his upcoming book, On the Firing Line, are his happy little version of payback. USA Today has the details.
Amelio's shocker is due out next month, at which time we at AtAT will be cackling with glee as we devour page after page describing the Machiavellian conspiracy between Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, who willfully sabotaged Amelio's stature with the Apple board of directors, leading to the eventual firing. We find it particularly ironic, since it was a full two months after Amelio's ousting that it finally dawned on him that Jobs may have had something to do with the whole thing-- a fact that everyone else on the planet had already figured out, commented on, and forgotten. (We've pasted a photo of Gil in our dictionary next to the phrase "slow on the uptake.")
We're placing our order now. How could we possibly resist a book which describes the Jobs-Ellison conspiracy duo as weaving "a web of plotting as intricate as the War of the Roses?" Especially when it also predicts Steve's rise to conquer Hollywood by dethroning Eisner from the Disney top spot. (Hmmm... Buyout, anyone?) Incidentally, whether you check out the USA Today article or not, you may be interested in their Quick Poll, which asks, "Who should run Apple?" Last we checked, Steve Jobs was leading Bill Gates 53%-22.8%.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/19/98 episode: March 19, 1998: An ex-cast member with a grudge readies his new tell-all memoir. Meanwhile, Microsoft may be cooking up a Mac-native version of Windows 98, and the truth behind the Columbus project is revealed in the dreams of a psychic viewer...
Other scenes from that episode: 550: Too Goofy To Ignore (3/19/98) Wacky rumor of the day: O'Grady's PowerPage says that a source close to Microsoft claims that soon you'll be able to buy Windows 98 for your G3-based Powermac. Native. Not some emulation package like VirtualPC or SoftWindows, but Windows 98 ported to the Mac hardware platform itself, making what we would assume to be standard Mac Toolbox calls to run the Windows operating system. The mind reels... 551: Stranger Than Fiction (3/19/98) And speaking of confusion, nothing in the Mac world's kicked up more dust than the mysterious Columbus project, which Apple reportedly confirms to be real, though they won't say anything at all about what it actually is. The only info anyone's heard officially from Apple came from Steve Jobs, who claimed that Columbus is "anti-gravity technology." Sure, you scoff now, but you haven't yet heard the story of longtime faithful viewer Michael Williams,...
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