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Mild-Mannered Animator (4/1/98)
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Look, up in the sky-- is it a bird? A plane? Nope, it's Super Steve, the interim Apple CEO who works miracles of media manipulation by focusing his Reality Distortion Field on his unsuspecting foes. However, faithful viewers of AtAT are privy to Super Steve's secret identity. When the super-powered interim CEO isn't battling the forces of evil in Cupertino, he's living incognito in his role as mild-mannered head of Pixar Animation Studios, the folks who brought you "Toy Story." And yesterday was one of those days on which Steve wore his Pixar hat, as he appeared at the Variety/Schroders Big Picture conference, as reported by Wired News.
Granted, CEO of a hugely successful up-and-coming computer animation studio is not the lowest of profiles as far as secret identities goes, but Batman already took "millionaire playboy" and none of the other stock secret identities are all that much fun. ("Mild-mannered reporter?" Puh-lease.) Still, if Steve is really intending to hide his other life from the public eye, you'd think he'd be more careful about letting his superhuman powers show through in public. Yesterday, Steve announced that Pixar would follow up its recent short "Geri's Game" (which, incidentally, won an Oscar last week) with "A Bug's Life" in November, "Toy Story II" in 1999, and an undisclosed secret feature film in 2000. Yes, as part of its five-film deal with Disney, Pixar plans to release a full-length animated feature film each year-- a feat only matched by the almighty and immortal Walt-Man himself.
With a release schedule like that, it's no wonder that Jobs has been hesitant to accept the full-time Apple CEO spot. Even superheroes have their limits, and the strains of juggling his Pixar duties and the drama-soaked zoo known as Apple Computer couldn't possibly leave much time left over for things like family. The real question is, what exactly are Steve's limits?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/1/98 episode: April 1, 1998: Predictably, the airwaves were awash with a bevy of April Fool jokes today, revealing that a sense of humor is alive and well and running throughout the entire Mac community (luckily for us). Meanwhile, consternation and uproar ensue over Quicktime 3.0's licensing fees, and Super Steve spends a public day in his guise as mild-mannered computer animation mogul...
Other scenes from that episode: 587: Poisson D'Avril (4/1/98) Well, as usual, April 1st brought a slew of fake stories and announcements meant to bring a smile to our faces. The first one we noticed was the press release over at MacCentral, which announced Bare Bones Software's first hardware product-- a PCI card "text accelerator."... 588: Ponying Up For Quicktime (4/1/98) Okay, yes, it's true-- Apple's finally started charging certain licensing fees for Quicktime, its cross-platform digital video architecture. This move has proved, shall we say, "unpopular" with folks who are used to getting previous incarnations of Quicktime for free...
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