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Think Lite, Think Soon (4/15/98)
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Wow, we wish Mac the Knife had been incarcerated earlier! It seems that since he got thrown in the slammer, the juicy tidbits just keep on coming. Today he reports that Apple's Newton OS replacement may not be as far off as we've all been thinking. In fact, his sources report that the so-called "Allegro Lite" thin-client version of the Mac OS may actually surface at the Worldwide Developer Conference next month.
While at first that seemed really unlikely to us, the more we thought about it, the more it made sense. Apple's publicly stated that the WWDC is where they will finally reveal the murky details of their operating system strategy. Since Apple has also publicly stated that the death of the Newton does not signal a retreat from the handheld space, it only stands to reason that they'd want to use WWDC to bring developers on to the Newton OS' replacement-- namely, the handheld version of the Mac OS. It's not out of the question.
The incurably optimistic among you will even believe the Knife when he says that Apple will also trot out a lineup of Allegro Lite licensees, including such heavy-hitters as Casio, Sharp, and Panasonic, all bent on using Apple's answer to the terminally-clunky Windows CE. And if you've achieved the sort of optimism only attainable via the use of dangerous narcotics, you may even believe the rumor that Apple will show both the Allegro Lite-powered "eMac" (now claimed to be due in September) and the mysterious Apple Media Player, recently outed by those guys over at Apple Recon. Who knows? Ah, the colors, the colors...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/15/98 episode: April 15, 1998: You can't keep a good computer company down... Apple posts its second straight profit, and in its most difficult quarter, to boot. Meanwhile, rumors of a surprise Allegro Lite introduction at WWDC pique our interest, and Larry Ellison's lips are moving, but nothing consequential comes out...
Other scenes from that episode: 629: Still In The Black (4/15/98) Not that it came as any surprise to those of us who watch Apple like a rabid pack of obsessive groupies (or even to those of us who watch Apple in much the same way that we can't help staring at a car wreck), but Apple posted another profit today... 631: Much Ado About Nothing (4/15/98) We wanted to spend a little airtime telling you about the neato interview with Gil Amelio over at Mac Home Journal (and now I guess we have-- neat how that works out, hmmmm?), but then we saw that Larry "Blabbermouth" Ellison's been talking to reporters again, and that will always take precedence on our show, no matter how mundane his comments...
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