Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:42:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Apple to drop Rhapsody? Message-ID: <19980519104229.M427@freebie.lemis.com>
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Seen this? Any comments? Greg ----- Forwarded message from Jerry_Dunham <jdunham@awesome-f0.us.dell.com> ----- > Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 12:09:55 -0500 > >> * APPLE EYES THE CONSUMER MARKET/KILLS OFF RHAPSODY PLAN...Apple >> Computer Inc. unveiled a new computer called the iMac --with a price >> of (US) $1,299 - as part of an effort to regain more of the consumer >> market, according to an article last Thursday in THE NEW YORK TIMES. >> Apple also introduced a line of Power Book notebooks designed around >> its G3 microprocessor. >> >> Separately, Apple is abandoning its strategy of replacing its >> Macintosh operating system with Rhapsody, according to an article in >> THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Instead, Apple is planning to add advanced >> functions to the current software in an upgraded version called Mac OS >> X. Steve Jobs announced the decision this week at a meeting of Apple >> software developers in San Jose, California. According to the article, >> Rhapsody is not being completely abandoned - it will be used on >> data-storage servers starting this fall, rather than on mainstream >> desktop machines. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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