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Same Old Song and Dance (6/10/98)
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We hate to say it, but we're experiencing a serious frisson of déjà vu as we hear about Apple's continuing availability problems with the PowerBook G3 Series. While the 233 and 250 MHz models have been trickling into the channel here and there, it's the "config 6" models (292 MHz processor and 14.1" screen) that are still nothing but vapor. As always, O'Grady's PowerPage is on top of the situation-- with an understandable (but uncharacteristic) degree of frustration and ire.
It would appear that recent reports of high-end PowerBook sightings were all false, and if anyone heard from the Apple Store that their "config 6" orders would be shipped this Friday, they heard wrong. In fact, Apple is now sending letters to customers awaiting their systems that the orders aren't expected to ship for the next three weeks. The problem appears to be with the 14.1" screens, as MacNN reports that Apple is considering shipping a 292 MHz model with a 13.3" screen to help fill the gap.
Is anyone else flashing back to the Apple of yesteryear, who frequently announced products months before they could actually ship them? Whatever happened to that new strategy of announcing products when they were already available, as was done with the initial Power Macintosh G3 unveiling last November? When the Apple Studio Display was unveiled a month before it was ready, we got a little nervous. And the 90-day lead time on the iMac announcement, while a good marketing ploy, still made us cringe a little. But it's this "whole ugly mess" with the PowerBooks that really makes us sweat. Hopefully this is not a return to an old and icky trend of an Apple that can't even keep its loyal supporters happy... We've had enough of the whole "return to the painful past" thing with the recent disco resurgence. Eewwww.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/10/98 episode: June 10, 1998: Uh oh, the same old Availability Problem rears its ugly head, this time affecting the PowerBook G3 Series. Meanwhile, Judge Jackson sets limits and deadlines in the ongoing "Redmond Justice" affair, and Apple decides to retire the venerable PICT format from its "native image format" post as of Mac OS X...
Other scenes from that episode: 763: The Swift Hand of Justice (6/10/98) So much for our plans to extend our "Redmond Justice" courtroom drama indefinitely into the future... It sounds like Judge Jackson wants to cancel the show after only a few more months. Yesterday he made it clear to both the Justice Department and Microsoft that he will not tolerate this landmark antitrust case stretching out for a decade, as the earlier IBM antitrust case did... 764: So Long to PICT (6/10/98) Just a quickie here, as we wave goodbye to the venerable PICT image format, which is being supplanted as the native Mac OS image file format in Mac OS X. Instead, the native format will be Adobe's PDF, or Portable Document Format...
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