This is just a quick rant…
Earlier this week, all of the Mac rumor sites were a-buzz with the news that Apple will be announcing the new iBook replacements (aka: the MacBook) this Tuesday. Well, Tuesday has come and gone, but Apple did not follow through with the rumors. Now, the rumor sites are saying that the announcement will come next week instead (on Tuesday).
I have the feeling that next week may come to pass with no announcement, and then the sites will just say that it will be in another week. Still Apple tends to announce new products at either special events, or on Tuesdays, and the fact that Apple has stated that they will come out with Intel iBooks before year’s end… I think the sites will ultimately be right. So, rock on rumor sites, rock on =P Maybe if we’re lucky, the second guess will be right. Hahaha.
-Tom
I had this really long post partially written that was gonna detail my flight to California and all that rot… but I scrapped it in favor of this post. No one really wants to hear me brag about livin’ it up in sunny California, eh?
Anyway, on the second leg of my flight to Cali, I was seated next to this older woman who was fascinating and told me all of these stories about living in the Valley during the tech boom. In particular, she was telling me how she was employed at SGI before moving on to Netscape when they were founded. We chatted about the fall of SGI, and she was ruminating that SGI used to be the top dog, but she was disappointed to see SGI’s stock be so low (sub-dollar) and that they were de-listed from NASDAQ and all that crap. SGI (and later Apple, once she discovered I was a Mac geek) became the focus of our conversation, along with management philosophies and other related things. To be honest, I had not given much thought to SGI in the last few years, but I remember their hardware being, quite literally, the shit. My school had quite a few of their workstations, and I even knew a guy who had his own personal O2 box that made him the envy of others.
Yesterday, I open up my web browser and started looking through news sites, and what do I see but the fact that SGI filed for Chapter 11. Wow. It is really quite sad. I mention this mainly because the timing of this chance encounter on my flight strikes me as … odd. Not odd, but I can’t think of the right word for it at the moment. Anyway, just thought I’d share.
-Tom