As the Apple Turns: Scene 781: Made With Macintosh (6/16/98)

Made With Macintosh (6/16/98)

Many of you probably saw the widespread reports that Intel's main web page included an image showing what were unmistakably Mac windows. If you haven't seen it by now, you're out of luck, as Intel quickly replaced the graphic with one showing Win32 windows instead. Luckily, about a gazillion people grabbed screenshots of the spectacle before Intel was able to change things around. MacNN is hosting one such image.

This incident is just the latest in an ongoing string of "made by Mac" sightings in the PC world, but it resonates strongly because the graphic was used to tout the use of the Pentium II in the creation of multimedia web sites. Ironic much? It justs goes to show you, Intel didn't get to where they are today by using the wrong tool for the job.

This latest sighting takes the place of our last favorite anomaly, which was when viewers discovered that the vast majority of the animated GIFs on Microsoft's site were tagged as having been created with GifBuilder-- a Mac-only GIF animation program. (Unsurprisingly, those were all pulled shortly after the word got out, too.) So now we know that both giants of the Wintel hegemony use Macs to build their web sites, ans-- perhaps more importantly-- they don't want people to know. Very interesting.

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The above scene was taken from the 6/16/98 episode:

June 16, 1998: Apple's looking to hire 400 pairs of hands to help build a massive stockpile of iMacs, in preparation for what they hope will be a mad buying frenzy this August. Meanwhile, the Cupertino computer maker climbs three notches in TBR's rankings, and Intel gets caught with its Mac showing...

Other scenes from that episode:

779: iMacs For Everyone (6/16/98) We had once heard that Apple plans to have 400,000 iMacs ready to ship when the hip consumer product first hits store shelves this August. Apparently they're taking that strategy seriously, because their Laguna West facility (which currently builds Power Mac G3's) is looking to hire 400 engineers and assembly line workers...
780: Computer Bovine Quarterly (6/16/98) Keep bringing on the stats... Just after Ziff-Davis reported that Apple fell from first place to third in customer repurchase loyalty last year, Technology Business Research, Inc. reports that Apple climbed from #15 to #12 in its quarterly Computer Business Quarterly Benchmark Report...

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