POWER MAC G4 FIASCO APPLE’S GIGA FLIP-FLOP MORE NEWS INSIDE… MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS DECEMBER 1999 NEWTESTED • FIREWIRE iMACS • MID-SIZE STORAGE OS SCREENS • MAC 9 • EXPERT TIPS Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk iBook Tested! Hot FireWire Super-fast hard drives New screens Mid-size monitor tests Text tricks Professional type tips XPress online Turn print into Web New design, new features iMovie, FireWire, DVD, AirPort, Special Edition DECEMBER 1999 £4.99 read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief y name is Simon Jary, and I’m an Apple-holic. I know it’s bad for me, Mac marketing my friends and my family. And it’s bad for you, too, my readers. Sad budgets to safer M to say, but this month Apple is nearly all bad news. Since I pleaded fields? FIRST THERE WAS (Macworld, August 1999) with the Mac maker to get its planned Apple Expo We have also 2000 absolutely right this time (“Apple simply cannot afford to let us down received hundreds THE iMAC, NOW again” were my exact words) and after three years of failing to turn up despite of emails from 78 promises, Apple has gone and done it again. Like a repeatedly battered Macworld readers. spouse, we stand bloody and rather shocked that we didn’t see it coming. Every other THERE’S THE iMAC DV How stupid we were to again believe Apple’s word. Stupid, stupid, stupid. email the word Promises are promises. But then there are Apple promises.When Apple “disgusted”. And the – FASTER, REFINED AND pulled out of Expo 98 (for the second time, mind), it had a point to prove rest were really angry. Read them at www.macworld.co.uk/expoexit/. – unfortunately at its customers’ expense.When it cancelled Expo 99, it Steve Jobs is busy elsewhere – at LA’s Internet World a week later, and in told us not to worry – next year’s would be “bigger and better”. Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters days later. So what? READY FOR THE DIGITAL- Now, we’ve been had again. Apple’s done a runner. No show in 1998. Most of the potential customers that Apple wants to tempt with its iMacs Nowhere to be seen in 1999. Out of sight in 2000. And it looks like Apple and iBooks have never heard of Steve Jobs, and would rather watch a Tory VIDEO REVOLUTION. will never open up to the British public ever again.Want to get to grips party political broadcast than sit through an hour’s tech pep. with the latest Apple kit? If you can’t book a weekday appointment at an Steve is right to talk at the other shows.That’s where the media will be. AppleCentre, you’d better book your Eurostar ticket and French lessons for That’s how he’ll spread Apple’s message best. But it’s no excuse for Apple UK WE TEST THE iMAC DV, Paris in September 2000. Or fly to San Francisco for Macworld Expo in January. to run away and hide behind his projector.We want to see, play with, and buy Maybe you can wait till July – and fly to New York for the second US Macworld Apple’s products – not stare at billionaires. AND REVIEW APPLE’S iMOVIE Expo of the year. For those prices, you could buy a nice desktop PC with printer Apple likes to think it lives and dies on look-&-feel. Everything must be just and scanner, or a slimline Windows laptop. so. Apple Expo had been promised a replica of Apple’s stylish white stand from VIDEO-EDITING SOFTWARE. All the third-party companies that booked for the show had been promised San Francisco.Trouble is, that three-dimensional glossy plastic brochure needs a major Apple presence. Even CEO showman Steve Jobs would appear. to be in LA and Las Vegas in April, and getting it over from London in a couple The Adobes, Macromedias, Epsons and Quarks had staked large parts of of days is too much even for Apple. So why can’t Apple bend its corporate their marketing budgets on the event. If they have to change their minds, blueprint a little to allow everyone a sight of its goods? After all, any look who’ll end up paying for the let-down? You will, through higher UK prices. is better than no look and no feel. Instead of honouring its promises, Apple tells us that it’s spending its I don’t enjoy writing negative comment about Apple. I usually leave that money on a series of TV ads – that’s its new way of “communicating to the rest of the press. But, when it hit its pre-iMac hard times, Apple survived with its customers”. Even Peter Mandleson would blanch at that one. through one thing and one thing only – the loyalty of its customers.This time, It’s not cheek, it’s crap. And Apple is about as full of it right now, as it with the outcry of readers and partners alike ringing in my email folder, I think ever was under far-lesser men than Steve Jobs. Apple may have pushed many of those trusting souls too far.There’s no way Since we broke the story of Apple’s scandalous exit on Macworld Online, we’ll believe it again. And, not coming from Apple, that’s a real promise. we have talked to nearly every pre-booked exhibitor. Unanimously, they When Apple goofed over Power Mac G4 orders (see page 20), Steve Jobs are shocked and hurt by Apple’s flippant flip-flop.There’s more money to be stepped in, saying:“Good companies make mistakes. Great companies fix made in the Windows market, and who will blame them for switching their them”. Thanks heavens, then, that Apple is still a very, very good company. 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