Word: macworld
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...even chairman of the board. But until there's a new boss, Jobs is firmly at Apple's helm, and take it from us, the beleaguered company will never be the same. Take it too from the 1,600 Macintosh believers who gave him a standing ovation at the Macworld Expo in Boston last week, then booed, hissed and finally sat in shocked silence as Jobs announced that Apple's salvation would be a strategic alliance with none other than... Bill Gates of Microsoft...
...Macintosh faithful: cuddle up with your PowerBook and see the story that inspired the ad: 1984. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton and a ravishing (and oft-ravished) Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, it's surely what was on Bill Gates' mind when he pulled that Wizard of OS routine at MacWorld, looming disembodied over the crowd while Steve Jobs said the words: Microsoft is our ally. Microsoft has always been our ally. Apple is at war with Netscape. Apple has always been at war with Netscape. The utterance may have drawn a few boos from the crowd...
...BOSTON: MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill...
BOSTON, Mass. : MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his opening address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill have deeper designs...
That remains to be seen. One good sign is that despite his windy speech at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco--which featured four movie stars, three CEOs, rock singer Peter Gabriel and former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali--most software developers came away optimistic. The big question now is whether Apple's hitherto loyal consumers will keep the faith...