As the Apple Turns: Scene 72: Anuff Already (10/10/97)

Anuff Already (10/10/97)

And this week's "Bitter Little Troll" award goes to Wired Magazine's Joey Anuff. Joey wrote a story on Apple's "Think Different" campaign that incidentally claimed that any Powermac on a T1 line would "get its clock cleaned by a 486 with a 28.8 modem." A post to Guy Kawasaki's EvangeList brought this to the attention of several thousand people who recognize this as a glaring factual error. When those several thousand people demanded that Wired print a retraction, Anuff's reponse was this:

"Feel free to keep spamming me and my editors, but you won't get a retraction. My casual (albeit obviously exaggerated) denigration of the Mac's internet performance is entirely justifed [sic] and totally deserved."

His full response (complete with the EvangeList administrator's comments) is available here. As far as we're concerned, opinion is one thing... but to print that a Powermac is slower than a 486 is cut and dried misrepresentation, despite Anuff's contention that he was using "obvious exaggeration." (Is it obvious to someone who's never used a Mac?) We simply think that a retraction is a reasonable request, and Anuff's gruff refusal reveals something icky about his personality. He also misspelled "Gandhi," and that irks us. ;-)

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

October 10, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

70: Rhapsody in View (10/10/97) Better late than never. (Late? Who's Late?) MacWEEK reports that Apple will take the wraps off the first developer release of Rhapsody for PowerPC next Tuesday. The Intel version should ship by Halloween...
71: QD3D Gunned Down (10/10/97) Mac the Knife dishes the dirt that QuickDraw 3D may be following in the footsteps of OpenDoc and other cool Apple technologies that didn't quite make it. Apparently QD3D is being segmented, with selected chunks getting mixed in to the Quicktime stew, and the rest stuffed down the virtual garbage disposal. AtAT pauses to reflect on the folly of trying to foist an alternate standard onto a skeptical developer public when an accepted standard already exists...

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