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Being for the benefit of Mr. Jobs.(Mac the Knife) (Humor)(Column)
Mac the Knife may be guilty of many sins - both venal and mortal -but a lack of ego is not one of his failings. Whether he is dressing down a quaking espresso jockey at the local Starbucks, browbeating a frightened knot of Girl Scouts about the quality of this year's crop of Thin Mints and Samoas, or raining opprobrium upon the elderly proprietor of the corner newspaper stand for creasing his Chronicle, the Knife navigates his day-to-day interactions with the self-righteous hostility of a latter-day Captain Ahab.
Flying
Speaking of wild-eyed, chutzpah-enhanced industry players: As of this writing, Steve Jobs continues to demonstrate enough showmanship to eclipse both Sieg- fried and his (allegedly) estranged lion-tamer Roy - at least when it comes to spelling out his own career plans, not to mention the fate of his Cupertino halfway house for wayward technologies.
While every Larry, Curly and Moe continues to speculate about Mr. Jobs' ultimate role at Apple, the Big Man himself is taking an aerial view of the action. According to some feckless Jehovah's Witnesses the Knife publicly humiliated just this morning, Mr. Jobs is considering seizing control of an abandoned military base in Pixar's Richmond, Calif., home as a helicopter landing port for lightning-strike missions between Pixar and Apple.
Given this Sgt. Slaughteresque Weltanshauung, mere product rollouts don't stand a chance. Take the rollout of the PowerBook 3500c, a k a PowerBook G3, a k a Kanga, originally set to surface this week at Macworld Expo London. No sooner had the cucumber sandwiches and piccalilli been laid out for the big event when Mr. Jobs abruptly pulled the plug, deciding that a product intro- duction would "steal his thunder" before the big Cupertino wing-ding slated for Nov. 10. Apple U.K. is now scrambling, ...
- Apple hears ringing in its future. (Apple and Bellcore Bell Communications...
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK August 10, 1992 700+ words
...cable companies should work together. The Knife hears that Apple is working on systems that will act as doors...prepared for a change in the way you deal with Apple. The Knife has learned that Apple signed a direct fulfillment contract recently...
- It's never too fast at Apple. (Mac the Knife ) (column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK August 1, 1989 700+ words
...there were interesting developments at Apple. If the Knife's sources are correct, Apple is getting serious about the RISC-based...and QuickDraw accelerator project. The Knife hears that Apple is sucking up almost the entire production...
- APPLE GORE AFTER KNIFE SLIP.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 11, 2003 700+ words
...Feb 11 - A 52-year-old Te Kuiti man punctured the main artery in his leg while peeling an apple with a knife yesterday. The man dropped the knife while trying to cut the skin from the fruit at lunchtime, and tried to catch the blade between...
- The hardware side of Apple. (Mac the Knife)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK February 24, 1992 700+ words
...IIsi. According to the Knife's sources, this new...to the current IIci. Apple is depending on a 33...those of you waiting for Apple to release a desktop...waiting. Sources tell the Knife that there is a very good...postponed. Perhaps someone at Apple did some market research...
- Pressed duck a l'Apple. (Mac the Knife) (News Briefs)(Column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK March 25, 1996 700+ words
...his desk. The Knife is not the only...if reports from Apple's Department...frozen, but the Knife's prognosticators report that Apple is looking to power...According to the Knife's on-line nabobs...counterpart from Apple; just drop it...
- At last a glimpse of the Big Apple. (Mac the Knife) (Column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK March 14, 1994 700+ words
...satisfaction of knowing that Apple has once again resisted...Mac model. For the Knife, new product day...the curtain that Apple is raising this week...unpleasant surprises, the Knife was free to pursue...as home of Mac the Knife is also only a few miles up the road from Apple's ...
- It's 1984 all over again at Apple.(Mac the Knife) (News Briefs)(Column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK January 22, 1996 700+ words
...political climate around Apple is getting downright chilly...Coded messages from the Knife's intelligence sources...tightening security at Apple amid fears of a jihad...fire in the market. The Knife's informants say Apple has asked Canon to put...
- Budget ax falls at Apple. (Mac the Knife) (column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK July 25, 1989 700+ words
...the same. Meanwhile, the Knife got a glimpse of the Canadian Apple Consortium price list...mere $550 plus the LQ, Apple would provide this hapless user with the SC. The Knife can understand why Apple, with only a few hundred...
- Welcome back, Apple. (Mac the Knife) (News Briefs)(Column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK April 1, 1996 700+ words
...April 1976? As he muses on Apple's china anniversary...in a single bound, the Knife is soothed by reveries of...Co. seem eager to shelve Apple's polyester past faster...Dy-no-MITE!" the Knife is donning his bell-bottoms...
- Apple rethinks Tower chassis. (Mac the Knife) (column)
- Magazine article from: MacWEEK February 28, 1989 700+ words
...gestation period for Apple's 15-inch and 21...end at the same event. Knife confidants who have seen...parties. Late last week Apple finally relented and...same size as similar Apple products. Made the Knife give greater credence...