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OPENSTEP
The One
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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: No Apple 30th Anniversary announcement?!?! |
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OK, call me a fanboi, but damnit, I was hoping for *something* on their 30th anniversary. I mean, heck, even a limited edition iPod engraving or something. And here it is, and nothing. First they take away my big endian goodness and now don't announce something cool. 
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LemonAid
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Ed, I feel your pain!   |
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MacRat
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| Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Or a Mac mini Intel Duo for $666 (the price of the Apple I) |
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sardisson
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Personally, I was hoping Steve woke up and decided to send you and Patrick lots of fast new Macs and some of his spare change so that Neo development could go faster 
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pluby
The Architect
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| sardisson wrote: | | Personally, I was hoping Steve woke up and decided to send you and Patrick lots of fast new Macs and some of his spare change so that Neo development could go faster |
Right. What I wonder is when Apple's managers figure out that NeoOffice is taking a large chunk of revenue away from them. Think of it this way: NeoOffice currently has about 150,000 downloads a month (!!!). Let's be conservative and assume that 20% of these people would have bought AppleWorks or iWork if NeoOffice didn't exist. That would be $79 x 30,000 or nearly $2.4 million revenue lost per month that users get to keep. While this is small potatoes for Apple as a whole, this is a significant amount of lost revenue for a single product.
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OPENSTEP
The One
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Not to mention there are places that are using Neo across the organization that would otherwise amoutn to site licensing deals...and that it's used by Sun to get site license deals too...and gets sold on eBay by scammers...
Oh, the humanity!
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jakeOSX
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so it is april 3rd and nothing.
i've decided i don't really care anymore. after the 20th mac and now the 30th apple anniversaries went by quietly, it would seem that apple is not concerned with celebrating themselves.
which i suppose is ok. i've decided i am not concerned with apple announcements anymore.
besides, all of that energy can be better spent on neooffice anticipation =D |
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doctype
Oracle
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Orgleser
sheepfun
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Well, after having read doctypes link, I think I have a last beer for tonight, and probably I drink it on my own health  |
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sardisson
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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As long as no one here does this, we should be OK
Smokey
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JCG
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| I just realized that Apple turning 30 years old makes me feel old. |
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MacRat
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Joined: Mar 02, 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:51 am Post subject: We're OLD!!! |
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You want to feel older?
Keep in mind that Apple is older than Ed!!!!! |
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ovvldc
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Joined: Sep 13, 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: Re: We're OLD!!! |
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| MacRat wrote: | | You want to feel older? |
Sheesh. I'm older than Apple. Only by three months, but still..
-Oz
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MacRat
Sake Horner
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Geez.
You young pups don't know what life was like before computers.
A calculator that was small enough to run off a 9volt battery was the high tech toy. |
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doctype
Oracle
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| Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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| MacRat wrote: | | A calculator that was small enough to run off a 9volt battery was the high tech toy. |
It didn't win anything with the girls, though. |
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