Stardate 20010716.1212 (On Screen): Jack's in New York, waiting feverishly for Wednesday's presentation by
The Steve at MacWorld New York. I've been enjoying immensely the speculation aired on
As the Apple Turns for a long time now (recommended even for non-Mac users), and I thought I'd turn to bridge station number three, and power up the sub-space crystal ball. So, into the breach, my friends:
- Apple will report only a slight profit, or perhaps a loss
- Gross sales will be down year-over-year
- There will be no 1 GHz Mac available soon. It's possible that one will be announced for long term delivery but it won't become generally available before October (because Motorola won't be able to deliver in quantity).
- There will be no LCD iMac. There will be a new iMac, which will have a larger CRT and a faster G3.
- Every "SteveNote" has to have at least one semblance of a knock 'em dead announcement, and this time it will be about stores, not about products.
- OSX is not yet ready for primetime and units will continue to ship with both OSX and OS9 on them.
- Sensors indicate a 50% chance of another rigged demo to reassure the faithful that they have the fastest retail desktop computer, even though they don't.
And in a couple of days we'll see how well Federation sensor technology can penetrate a Reality Distortion Field™. (Let's hope the Cardassians don't get hold of it.) (discuss)
Update 20010718: Looks like subspace technology works pretty well after all.
