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NEW: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.5 PREVIEW MACWORLD MORE NEWS, MORE REVIEWS AUGUST 1999 AUGUST DREAM MACHINE • FLAT-PANEL DISPLAYS • SCSI CARDS • MAC OS X • FINAL CUT PRO • PHOTOSHOP 5.5 OS X • FINAL CUT PRO PHOTOSHOP • SCSI CARDS • MAC DISPLAYS • FLAT-PANEL DREAM MACHINE Macworldwww.macworld.co.uk WIN! £5,500+ Dream machine Mac goodies 450MHz G3 Power Mac tested Win your perfect Mac – worth over £7,500! 17 Flat screens Save your desk space, be cool Millennium Mac Prepare yourself now for OS X New Macs for business Is Apple planning a brand new range? AUGUST 1999 £4.99 read me first Simon Jary, editor-in-chief ast year’s dramatic decision by Apple There was a stand-off. Instead of admitting its previous perilous state and to flounce out of its only UK Mac show getting on with knocking the socks off the beige pretenders, Apple stamped L caused chaos and confusion among its foot until the organizers jumped. And instead of seizing the initiative and exhibitors and visitors alike.Whatever the creating the best Mac show ever, the organizers faffed around with dumb warped reasoning, the swift exit by the principal ideas until they came up with a stupid, Siamese-twin-type show of two halves SHUT YOUR EYES AND IMAGINE YOU’VE attraction devalued Apple Expo to the point of it that suited no one and confused the bejesus out of everyone. becoming more a mini-market for resellers than a grand exhibition of the Apple jumped ship.You could see its point, but nothing could obscure the 61 JUST BEEN GIVEN £7,500 TO BUY YOUR state of the Mac. Rather like the FA’s awful action of forcing Man United out fact that the company was missing one hell of an opportunity to market its of the FA Cup in favour of some fuzzy global event, taking the Apple out of renewed self and sell crateloads of iMacs to boot. Still, there was always next DREAM MAC. NOW OPEN THEM, TURN TO OUR Apple Expo diminished the show’s value. Next year, promised Apple, they’d year. And Expo ’99, remember, would be bigger and better than ever before. be back bigger and better than ever before. Apart from it won’t, because Apple has pulled the plug on the whole event EYE-POPPING MACWORLD ONLINE COMPETITION The real shame about the neutered Apple Expo ’98 was that Apple had so (see page 16). Not only will Apple miss the chance to speak directly to its UK much to say to its battered legion of devotees – and even more to show off to customers for the second year in succession, but no one else in the market will – AND MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE. entirely new markets of fledgling PC buyers. All the talk at Apple Expo ’97 was get the chance either. If the show was diminished in 1998, it has been utterly the recent return of founding father Steve Jobs. After years of massive losses destroyed in 1999. The warning signs that not all was well with Expo ’99 have and hopeless leadership, the company was still rocky, but fuelled by a sense of been apparent for months now. We’ve been waiting for a series of ads since new beginnings.We saw the premier Apple Power Macs based on the PowerPC May,and exhibitor news has been as thin on the ground as snow in the Sahara. G3, and the first fruits of Jobs’ cool ‘Think Different’ advertising campaign. Apple Expo ’99 was missing in action, presumed lost in Steve Jobs’ office. What could have been a gloomy gathering turned into a rather optimistic I can see the logic of Steve’s eventual decision. Realigning the European affair. This new Apple, with Steve back at the helm, would sail into uncharted shows around the big US events makes a lot of sense.That’s how Apple makes waters and discover profits beyond our dreams. Just six months later, the Mac its major announcements these days. Why reissue New York’s news in Paris in world went all translucent and Bondi Blue. The iMac template for all that September and then again in London in late November? would follow was joyously received. Caught on waves of profit and genuine But a perfect plan from 2000 onwards and the first appearance of Steve popular excitement, it revitalized Mac communities across the globe. Jobs at a UK Expo doesn’t alter the fact that British users have been hard done Apple Expo ’98 should have been the best UK Mac show ever. It could have by since they last met Apple back in 1997. How much harm has been done in reignited the whole Mac market this side of the Atlantic. But, because the terms of market share and industry perception can’t be quantified. But the end show’s initial organization was carried out during the down period in Apple’s result of Apple’s absence is a sorry continuation of the disappointment,dejection fortunes, the event organizers had refashioned it as the rather long-winded and distrust Mac customers justifiably felt towards the company pre-Steve. Total Design Technology Show.This new expo would welcome Windows PCs to Because of that, they’ll be expecting something pretty damn amazing in nine August 1999 WALKER JAMES BY MIKE LAYE/ILLUSTRATION PHOTOGRAPHY COVER the creative fold, and Apple wasn’t best pleased by the competition. months time. Apple simply cannot afford to let us down again. 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