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"It's Not You, It's Me" (10/8/97)
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The honeymoon's over: Macintouch has lots of tidbits on the aftermath of the end of licensing as we knew it. After having told Apple to "hit the road," Motorola is dumping all of their Mac OS machines in an attempt to leave the ugly past behind. Apparently they are soliciting bids from distributors to buy their entire remaining inventory in a single lot, nonreturnable. How's that for a clean break? After the rocky relationship with the Mac, Motorola's sworn off new relationships for a while.

Meanwhile, not so for spurned lover Power Computing; after being dumped by Apple for wooing the wrong customers, Power has now reportedly sold out of many models, including all PowerBases, all PowerCenter Pro 210's, and all low-profile models. Power had priced their remaining Mac OS boxes at fire-sale level just to get rid of them, forget the past, and move on. They've got a new love now in the guise of Microsoft (for whom they had eyes all along, some say), with whom they hope for a nice, stable (albeit bland) relationship; but we bet that every time they close their eyes, they see the Mac's alluring smile...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/8/97 episode:

October 8, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 64: Tangled Web A-Weavin' (10/8/97)   A faithful viewer gave us an unconfirmed rumor of a disturbing nature. Most of you have probably visited Apple's web site at one time or another. What you may not have known (but probably could have guessed) is that it's run almost entirely by a slew of PowerMacs-- Apple Workgroup Servers, to be exact...

  • 65: Sincerest Flattery (10/8/97)   Well, we at AtAT now know that we have officially "arrived." Check out the London Independent article "`Way Cool' Episodes Enliven the Apple Soap Opera" and tell us that we aren't a trend-setter. ;-) It actually is a pretty good article to get a quick overview of the whole Apple situation, but we're not sure it's what we'd call "balanced reporting." We'll let this infraction slide, but if we see a new Apple-based soap opera appear on NBC next week, someone's gonna get sued...

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