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Think Larceny (6/20/98)
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Hands up-- your Mac or your life! A MacCentral report confirms a long-held axiom in the computer world-- thieves prefer Macs. In a frightening turn of events, several armed burglars threatened an Apple Canada security guard at gunpoint and robbed the building of about $100,000 worth of Mac equipment. Thankfully, the security guard suffered only minor injuries.
Interestingly, the robbery happened in a well-known high-tech area north of Toronto, where other big tech companies also have offices. The robbers could have plundered IBM, Compaq, Dell,or a number of other companies, but instead decided to make off with $100 grand of PowerBook G3's. (Proof positive that the new PowerBooks are irresistible, no?) This isn't a new phenomenon; over the years, we've heard lots of stories in which thieves bypassed Wintel equipment in order to steal Apple gear. Digging through past postings at the EvangeList web site reveals some other stories in which the Mac holds the dubious honor of being the choice of discriminating thieves everywhere.
In fact, your friendly AtAT staff have personally experienced this phenomenon in the past. Two years ago, some miscreant stole our beloved PowerBook Duo 230 from a hospital physics lab. In doing so, he or she completely ignored the Wintel laptop which was sitting right next to the Duo. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but it certainly was an eye-opener. And we will never forget when a certain highly-placed Apple executive (who shall remain anonymous) heard about the theft, claimed that similar occurrences had happened in the past, and offered to let us use his employee discount to buy a replacement system off the record. Now that's customer service. ;-) (We didn't take him up on the offer, by the way-- we'd already found a good price on another Duo.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/20/98 episode: June 20, 1998: Apple arrives late to the party, but makes good on its promise to revamp the QuickTime distribution license. Meanwhile, UserLand starts charging-- a lot-- for its Frontier scripting environment, and if you thought PowerBook G3's are hard to find, a group of armed burglars in Canada found a way to get their hands on some (though we can't approve of their methods)...
Other scenes from that episode: 791: Better Late Than Never (6/20/98) For those of you remember the hullabaloo surrounding Apple's new distribution license when QuickTime 3 came out a few months ago, you should be pleased to note that Apple's finally posted a revised license, as promised, incorporating changes demanded by the developer community... 792: $: The New Frontier (6/20/98) In other price hike news, UserLand's Frontier is joining the world of commercial software. Frontier is a popular and powerful scripting environment that, until now, has been free of charge. Unfortunately for its users, MacInTouch points out that its new pricing structure means that Frontierheads are going to have to pony up at least $300 a year to use the new 5.1 version...
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