Hell froze over
by Volker Weber
Steve Jobs using a Dell machine to demonstrate iTunes for Windows.
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I am scared ...
"hell froze over" sums it up nicely
steve on a dell, itunes on windows, partnership with AOL; could that day have been any weirder? ;)
Why's partnership with AOL weird?
Exhibit One: AOL, in its early days, was very close to Apple
Exhibit Two: iChat uses AOL IDs
Love the photo though: Jobs on a Dell. Heh!
And what about the deal with PepsiCo. Jobs hires Sculley from PepsiCo. Sculley fires Jobs. Sculley leaves Apple. Jobs comes back. Jobs makes deal with PepsiCo :)
Jobs used to have a PC in the last days of NeXT running NeXTStep. He probably had a PC at Pixar too.
I think it's time for Apple to "push" the fact that OS X is really 'Unix' then it can get the Unix/Linux wonks to come over and build applications. The number of Mac apps is still exceedingly small. I miss the Mac - I last developed on in it back in '90 using MPW & MacApp - anyone remember those?...
For sure SBC, do you remember the leisure soft like Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle ... geez that was great and hot stuff ... all in b&w :-))
Don't forget Lemmings and Spacestation Pheta ;-)
http://www.tandtsoftware.com/home/Pheta/Pheta.asp?Platform=Macintosh
Humm but these are color ... remember load runner and gato the sub simulator :-))
True: everything was black and white on my old Mac Classic though ;-)
Ah yes, a 9" screen... and one of the most useful machines I've ever had!
well.. the announcement that itunes was going to windows came a very long time ago.. and its naive to think that because steve used a dell means that apple might be conforming in any aspect.. i think of it this way.. apple is slowly seeping into the competition's market and showing them how real programs work =)
ipod on pc.. needed itunes. musicmatch jukebox was the biggest pos when i helped my buddy set up his ipod for a pc.
Matt, you may want to read here:
- Goodbye MusicMatch
- Pot, kettle, black?
- Stop calling for law enforcement - start selling
Don't forget, Micheal Dell is introducing his own music site store in the future. He could use this caption: 'Dell's music store is so good that the CEO of Apple Computer Steve Jobs uses it!' Hey, That'll gain some hits.
Player 16 - [edited by vowe]. Jobs wasn't using any service of Dell's just using a PC to show the rest of the world what they have been missing and invite them over.
As i said 'Micheal Dell is introducing' not 'Micheal Dell has introduced'!
