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Of Things to Come (5/16/98)
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With all the controversy surrounding the iMac, with all the concerns that it might just be "too different," we at AtAT have been anxiously counting down the ninety days until the system is actually shipping, so we can see if those concerns are valid or not. As it turns out, though, we may not have to wait that long to see if the iMac will be a sales winner. A Mac OS Rumors source claims that, according to a senior Apple engineer, CompUSA already has seventy thousand pre-orders for Apple's upcoming consumer machine.
Seventy thousand. Look at that in numerical notation: 70,000. That's seventy thousand pre-orders for a computer that was unveiled a week and a half ago, which has had zero actual advertising, isn't even in production yet, and won't be available for about three months. Is this possible? We can't vouch for the legitimacy of the claim, but if it's true, the possibilities boggle the mind. Could the world be ready (nay, yearning) for a simple computer? Is the world not as married to Microsoft as we all think? And most importantly of all, can the fact that a computer lights up when you turn it on overcome the fact that it has no floppy drive?
Astounding. If these alleged seventy thousand advance orders are any indication of the explosion that'll happen once the iMac becomes available and Apple (hopefully) advertises the bejeezus out of it, the sky's the limit. Best case scenario: Hellooooo, market share. Here's hoping that Apple can build them fast enough to keep up with people buying them.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/16/98 episode: May 16, 1998: The truce between Microsoft and the U.S. government ends abruptly, as an unmoveable company encounters an impossible demand. Meanwhile, despite all the debate, interest in the iMac is huge, if early rumors about pre-orders can be trusted; and the fabled Columbus/AMP set-top box is officially dead before it got off the ground...
Other scenes from that episode: 709: A Call To Arms (5/16/98) Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially at DEFCON 1. The Department of Justice announced today that peace talks with Microsoft had broken down, and are not expected to resume. Microsoft will be shipping Windows 98 to manufacturers on Monday, as the DoJ scrambles to file an antitrust lawsuit intended to halt it... 711: S.O.S.! AMP RIP? Y-E-S. (5/16/98) Of course, while the iMac prepares to revolutionize the home computer market, what of the Apple Media Player/Columbus? It appears that the set-top box version of this mysterious Apple project is now officially dead, despite Apple Recon's long-fought battle to prevent it from being "Steved."...
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