Word: macintoshes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the spring, I wrote about the travails of installing the free operating system Linux. Since then, I've got e-mail daily from folks who want to know how it's going; in their way, Linux's adherents are as evangelical as any member of the orthodox Macintosh religion. Others--who, I guess, didn't read between my lines--wanted to know if they should use Linux instead of Windows or the Mac's operating system. That second question is far easier to answer than the first: for most of the laypeople who read this column...
...year. In a little-noted but surely deliberate statement of purpose, Jobs devoted the bulk of last week's keynote to two Web initiatives: QuickTime TV, an ambitious soup-to-nuts solution for Web video, and Sherlock 2, the upgrade to Apple's zippy search engine. Even at 12%, Macintosh remains a minority, and therefore vulnerable, platform, but that computer for Everyman that Jobs has been reaching for seems closer to his grasp than it has been for a very long time...
...happened anyway. Davis awoke on the morning of May 29 to find four special agents and five local cops crowded into his apartment. They cuffed him, carted off his Power Macintosh plus (inexplicably) 300 music CDs and slapped a $165 fine on him for possession of a can of beer they found in his refrigerator. Still, Davis got off lightly. Global Hell's other founder, a Houston-based computer whiz named MostHated, had to answer to his parents, whom he still lives with, and who weren't too pleased when the FBI took away the family PC that held...
...most entertaining thing about Pirates is the fact that--pro forma statements about inaccuracies from both camps aside--the corporate soap-opera events it recounts went down largely as Burke presents them: Jobs really did launch Apple in his parents' garage; his team really did steal the Macintosh's revolutionary visual-desktop design from under Xerox's nose; Gates really did talk IBM into licensing an operating system that he didn't yet own to run the first PC; and Jobs really did trust Microsoft with the Mac prototype, never believing Gates would, at least in Jobs' view...
...Games Station exacerbates piracy problems in the video-game-console market. CVGS contains technology that is designed to discriminate between legitimate PlayStation CDs and illegal copies. Your article also overlooked the compelling legitimate consumer benefit of our product: CVGS enables you to play many popular PlayStation games on a Macintosh computer. Now PlayStation owners have new choices of where they can play their games, and Macintosh owners have more games to choose from. This increased consumer choice is a far more important social effect than the negative aspects you emphasized in your article. ROY MCDONALD, PRESIDENT Connectix Corp. San Mateo...