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The Bleeding Continues (10/15/97)
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Ouch! Apple posted its fourth-quarter financial results today, and the news is worse than even the "industry analysts" had predicted (and you know how cranky those guys can get). Apple lost a whopping $161 million this quarter, compared to the expected $18 million or so.
We're obviously not happy with the results, but at least one person has reason to smile: The winner of our first "Beat the Analysts" contest is Fred Pilon! He predicted an Apple loss of $137 million, which, as it turns out, was the closest guess. It also happened to be the most pessimistic guess, by a long shot. He sums up his reasoning with the comment, "lack of product hurts hardware sales despite great sales on OS8." Fred wins the respect of AtAT by displaying that world-weary pessimism of which we're all so fond! Way to go, Fred!
Fred wins a shrinkwrapped copy of LucasArts' smash megahit from years past, "Rebel Assault II." And, for entering the super-secret magic EvangeList password of "Spartacus" (you DO subscribe to the EvangeList, don't you??), he wins the bonus EvangeList prize of a shrinkwrapped copy of "The Mask: The Origin," by Cyber Comics, based on the cool Dark Horse comic that got turned into a Jim Carrey vehicle.
For more interesting tidbits about the contest (like average guess, most off-the-mark guess, etc.), go check the results. While you're there you can send us suggestions for our next survey.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/15/97 episode: October 15, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 87: Graft and Scandal! (10/15/97) There's dirty work afoot... The Mac Home Journal claims that Yale's recent push to migrate its students from Mac to Wintel machines may have been an attempt to win a $3 million "migration grant" that Yale received from Intel, applied for by the same Daniel Updegrove (ITS Director) that sent that infamous letter to Yale's incoming freshmen this past June... 88: Power Outage (10/15/97) The end is nigh for the first casualty of the Great Clone Wars of 1997... MaCNN reports that Power Computing, formerly the first and most successful Mac cloner, is giving up the ghost. Once Apple bought back its Mac OS license, Power planned to sell off all remaining Mac OS machines and compete in the Wintel world, starting with their new PowerTrip notebook...
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