[MyAppleMenu] Oct 6, 2000

Fri Oct 6 21:05:06 EDT 2000

MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ==============

Inside Jobs: Intrigue Laced With Frustration (USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/moneybooks/m0008.htm>
As deep as it delves into the gestalt of Jobs — an adopted, post-flower child who spent the early part of his adult life trying to find his biological parents while ignoring his first child — Deutschman doesn't crack the inner circle of All Things Steve.

Time To Defend Apple (PC Magazine)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2637586,00.html>
I'm more convinced than ever that we'll never see jazzy-looking PCs, because the kind of engineering and MBA talent that runs the computer manufacturing companies doesn't get that stylish.

The Next Generation Of The Mac: X (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19257-2000Oct5.html?applesurf>
Apple says that the X in Mac OS X, its upcoming replacement for the Mac operating system, should be pronounced "10." But the common mispronunciation of "ex" gets closer to the truth--that letter might as well stand for "experimental."

The Verdict: Did Apple And Priceline Ruin Last Week? (Upside)
<http://www.upside.com/On_Trial/39dd00a90.html?applesurf>
Apple didn't deserve to be taken down so low. And since the company is just getting moving with its new product line, including the much ballyhooed OS X, we won't have conclusive information on short-term success or failure for at least another couple of quarters.

Apple Gets A Bruising (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/macatya/TWB20001005S0005>
The bottom line is, things aren't as rotten as people are making them out to be. Apple is still a moneymaker.

Don't Worry, Be Happy!: Why Apple's Darkest Moment Isn't So Dark At All (PBS)
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20001005.html>
The PC market is big enough and diverse enough for a boutique computer company to not only survive but to do well, which is exactly what Apple has been and is still doing. It is time to think different.

The Insanity Of Wall Street (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/10/01/1005everywallst.html>
Most events and trends of late seem to be in Apple's favor, not against. Once again, I'm left to question what the selloff of Apple's stock was about? Was it sanity, and people coming to their senses, or was it stupidity and people overreacting to hype? If it was the latter, and I think it was, then I see Apple as a big investment opportunity.

== AppleSurf (News) ==============

Inside Jobs: Intrigue Laced With Frustration (USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/moneybooks/m0008.htm>
As deep as it delves into the gestalt of Jobs — an adopted, post-flower child who spent the early part of his adult life trying to find his biological parents while ignoring his first child — Deutschman doesn't crack the inner circle of All Things Steve.

We Saw Apple's Troubles All Along - Market Researcher (The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/13807.html>
OneChannel's numbers just seem to show is that Apple's sales metrics aren't quite the same as the rest of the PC business, which shouldn't surprise anyone.

For Record Labels Big And Small: QuickTime Leaps Ahead On The Web (Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2000/10/jivetoad/>
Record companies big and small have discovered the Internet and are racing to beat out the competition. Seeking to maximize sales some labels are creating QuickTime-based media to promote their music.

Apple's E-commerce Tool, 1-Click, Threatened (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/06.oneclick.shtml>
"OpenTV's U.S. patent filing predates, by more than three years, the 1-Click patent Amazon.com is asserting against Barnes and Noble.com."

The Next Generation Of The Mac: X (Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19257-2000Oct5.html?applesurf>
Apple says that the X in Mac OS X, its upcoming replacement for the Mac operating system, should be pronounced "10." But the common mispronunciation of "ex" gets closer to the truth--that letter might as well stand for "experimental."

The Verdict: Did Apple And Priceline Ruin Last Week? (Upside)
<http://www.upside.com/On_Trial/39dd00a90.html?applesurf>
Apple didn't deserve to be taken down so low. And since the company is just getting moving with its new product line, including the much ballyhooed OS X, we won't have conclusive information on short-term success or failure for at least another couple of quarters.

One Judge's Opinion: Delete Should Mean Delete (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/technology/06CYBERLAW.html>
The geniuses who designed the modern world's computers probably thought they were doing mankind a favor when they decided that nothing, in fact, would ever be deleted when a computer user presses the Delete button. At least one prominent jurist, however, thinks Delete should mean just that.

Grim Tales From Apple's Core (Financial Times)
<http://markets.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?GXHC_gx_session_id_FutureTenseContentServer=c3bfce7f370cf9ee&applesurf&pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT38HWKYVDC&live=true&tagid=YYY9BSINKTM&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C&applesurf>
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs by Alan Deutschman was written when Mr Jobs was being extolled for returning Apple to profitable growth. Today, such praise is rapidly diminishing as doubts set in about his ability to pull Apple out of another tailspin.

Is Cube All It's Cracked Up To Be? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2637366,00.html>
To try to get to the bottom of the issue, ZDNet this week examined -- and photographed -- an assortment of freshly uncrated Cubes and found consistent anomalies in their plastics, some of them deeper than Apple has acknowledged.

Analysts: Tech Slump And Apple Slump Not The Same (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/05.stock.shtml>
Stock analysts are telling MacCentral there is a big difference and while computer sales in general are down for all makers throughout the world, Apple is mostly a single product company and as a result can be hit even harder when there is an overall PC sales slowdown.

Mac Web Servers: Under The Hood Of Mac OS X (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0010/05.hart.shtml>

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ==============

Time To Defend Apple (PC Magazine)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2637586,00.html>
I'm more convinced than ever that we'll never see jazzy-looking PCs, because the kind of engineering and MBA talent that runs the computer manufacturing companies doesn't get that stylish.

Clues From The Beta: Why OS X Won't Be Ported To Intel (Right On Mac!)
<http://rightonmac.com/articles/00/10/06-aboutthismac.html>
Check out the new OS X "About This Mac" box.

Apple's Spark (osOpinion)
<http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JackShedd/JackShedd14.html>
The Cube is Apple's waterloo, and soon, OS X will only add to that.

Apple Gets A Bruising (TechWeb)
<http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/macatya/TWB20001005S0005>
The bottom line is, things aren't as rotten as people are making them out to be. Apple is still a moneymaker.

Cool Elegance Of Apple's Cube May Leave You Cold (Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20001005/t000094570.html>
So why is it not a best seller? Playing Monday-morning quarterback, I'd have to say it's a question of value.

Don't Worry, Be Happy!: Why Apple's Darkest Moment Isn't So Dark At All (PBS)
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20001005.html>
The PC market is big enough and diverse enough for a boutique computer company to not only survive but to do well, which is exactly what Apple has been and is still doing. It is time to think different.

The Insanity Of Wall Street (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/10/01/1005everywallst.html>
Most events and trends of late seem to be in Apple's favor, not against. Once again, I'm left to question what the selloff of Apple's stock was about? Was it sanity, and people coming to their senses, or was it stupidity and people overreacting to hype? If it was the latter, and I think it was, then I see Apple as a big investment opportunity.

== AppleSurf (Reviews) ==============

Epsons Stylus Photo 875DCS (MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/news/productwatch/epson875.shtml>
Just when we thought that inkjet printers couldn't get any more interesting (and that has kept us up late at night), Epson comes through with a surprise — a photo-quality inkjet printer that doubles as a Sony Memory Stick reader.

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ==============

Microsoft Accueses Government Of Trying To Short-Circuit Its Appeal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2939302.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
"Were it not for the three-month delay engendered by appellees' strenuous effort to avoid this Court's review, briefing would have been completed in November of this year under Microsoft's proposed schedule," Microsoft's brief states.

== The Wintel Empire (News) ==============

Dell Stock Dips On Profit Warning, Analyst Downgrades (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2936178.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Dell Computer shares sank today to their lowest price in two years, in response to its revenue growth warning and subsequent analyst downgrades.

Dell Vows No More Surprises For Wall Street (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2940250.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
A day after announcing that sales will grow at a slower pace than expected this quarter, Dell Computer executives said they have learned the market's most merciless lesson: make your numbers.

Microsoft Accueses Government Of Trying To Short-Circuit Its Appeal (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2939302.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
"Were it not for the three-month delay engendered by appellees' strenuous effort to avoid this Court's review, briefing would have been completed in November of this year under Microsoft's proposed schedule," Microsoft's brief states.

Ex-Employee Accusses Microsoft Of racial, Gender Bias (Bloomberg News)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2939735.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Microsoft "permits managers, who are predominantly white males, to rate employees based upon their own biases rather than based upon merit," Monique Donaldson, a former program manager at Microsoft, states in the suit.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ==============

Patent Battle Takes TV Turn (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,39306,00.html>
An interactive TV company wants to broaden a patent to include one-click electronic purchases. The move brings a wrinkle to the saga of a controversial Amazon.com patent that does the same thing.

Court Skepitcal Of Amazon's Claim (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/amaz035.shtml>
Amazon.com's fight to bar rival Barnes & Noble.com Inc. from using a patented single-click online purchasing method drew a skeptical response yesterday from a federal appeals court, which questioned whether the invention is worth protecting.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ==============

Did MSN Redirect Ads To Music Sites? (ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2637390,00.html>
State Farm and Allstate insurance companies spent $2.9 million to advertise on streaming media and download sites in a marketing campaign they never knew about.

Patent Battle Takes TV Turn (Wired News)
<http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,39306,00.html>
An interactive TV company wants to broaden a patent to include one-click electronic purchases. The move brings a wrinkle to the saga of a controversial Amazon.com patent that does the same thing.

One Judge's Opinion: Delete Should Mean Delete (New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/05/technology/06CYBERLAW.html>
The geniuses who designed the modern world's computers probably thought they were doing mankind a favor when they decided that nothing, in fact, would ever be deleted when a computer user presses the Delete button. At least one prominent jurist, however, thinks Delete should mean just that.

Court Skepitcal Of Amazon's Claim (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
<http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/amaz035.shtml>
Amazon.com's fight to bar rival Barnes & Noble.com Inc. from using a patented single-click online purchasing method drew a skeptical response yesterday from a federal appeals court, which questioned whether the invention is worth protecting.

EMI Pullout May Win AOL-Time Warner Merger OK (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2938788.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Time Warner's decision today to scrap its planned acquisition of record label EMI Group will likely hasten European approval of the media giant's merger with America Online, although the companies still face additional hurdles in the United States.

== PenguinSurf (Top Stories) ==============

New Linux Shows Promise In Heavy-Duty Business Use (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2939195.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Linux long has been criticized for not being able to tap into the potential power of large servers, but programmers have begun taking early steps to push it onto these high-end machines.

== PenguinSurf (News) ==============

New Linux Shows Promise In Heavy-Duty Business Use (CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2939195.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Linux long has been criticized for not being able to tap into the potential power of large servers, but programmers have begun taking early steps to push it onto these high-end machines.

== The AppleSurf Reader ==============

British Airways Stretches Out (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/business/col/george/2000/10/06/sleeper/index.html>
Sleeper seats in business class -- bed and breakfast, the expensive way.

Living Color (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/10/06/crouch/index.html>
The critic and author of "Don't the Moon Look Lonesome" picks eight great books that get race right.

They're Both Liars! (Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/10/05/lies/index.html>
Bush and Gore have each been known to stretch the truth. Bush just does it better.

== SingaporeSurf (Top Stories) ==============

Are We A Nation Of Whiners? (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,5167,00.html?>
"People have this notion that unless you complain, you won't have what you want."

== SingaporeSurf (News) ==============

Singapore Employers Slow, Reluctant To Implement Family-Friendly Policies: NUS Study (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001006/singapore/cna/Singapore_employers_slow__reluctant_to_implement_family-friendly_policies__NUS_study.html>

Are We A Nation Of Whiners? (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,5167,00.html?>
"People have this notion that unless you complain, you won't have what you want."

Privatisation Should Go With Liberalisation (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/for1_1006.html>
Alamelu Subramaniam, Senior Assistant Director (Public Affairs) for Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry: A better solution is for privatisation to be accompanied by market liberalisation. Then competition will raise efficiency and lower prices, and no monopoly will need to be regulated.

PMs Can Work Out Formula: Syed Hamid (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/pri4_1006.html>
A formula will have to be worked out between the Prime Ministers of Malaysia and Singapore to resolve the package of outstanding bilateral issues and, while no timetable has been set, the sooner this is done the better, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said.

== SingaporeSurf (Technology) ==============

Two CEOs Tell How They Got Dotburned (Project Eyeball)
<http://eyeball.asia1.com.sg/Eyeball/Story/1,1381,5166,00.html?>
Failure doesn't mean that you're a loser. You have to learn EVERYTHING when you start a dotcom, and there's great value in the skills, such as marketing knowledge or knowing how to source funds.