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Much Ado About Nothing (4/15/98)
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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. This time the subject is once again whether best buddy Steve Jobs will bite the bullet and stay on at Apple permanently. A Reuters story immortalizes his comments.
Unfortunately, those comments don't reveal much that we hadn't already seen. Of course Steve's "torn" about taking the job. It's a little stronger to say that he "doesn't really want to stay," but of course wishy-washiness pretty much invalidates that point when Larry adds, "on the other hand, he loves Apple." Great. Thanks for the clarification. At least we get a little bit of the why behind Steve's reluctance to sign on full-time: "He's torn between his love for Pixar and he has a young family." That's clear, and those are both very valid reasons-- of course, we all knew this already.
So basically, what have we learned from these pearls of wisdom? Mostly that Larry can talk up a storm, even when there's not much to say. Still, you just never know when he's suddenly going to start talking about top secret projects like the Mac NC or the AMP, so he's worth keeping an eye on. They can't all be gems, though.
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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... 630: Think Lite, Think Soon (4/15/98) 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...
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