From: John Hay (OceanCity_at_mac.com)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 05:30:39 PDT
Yes, again, I would side with Ian's prophetic judgement.
Ostensibly, the "reason" for a sellout is that Steve want to jump ship
at the height of Apple's rosy financial statements, as did Jerry
Seinfeld** at the end of his series, so that he can pursue other
divergent personal projects with whatever time he has left on the
planet. Who knows. Just idle speculation as usual no doubt. I can not
corroborate this information. Just happened to stumble into it. I
really don't know. John
**NEW YORK (CNN) -- Turning his back on a reported NBC offer of $5
million an episode for the 1998-99 season, comedian Jerry Seinfeld says
his decision to stop producing 'Seinfeld' after this season is all about
"timing."
<http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/26/seinfeld/>
10/18/05 Ian R. Campbell issued the following and I have taken literary
license to pass it along on a "Need to Know Basis" . . . ?
>In the unlikely, but really old rumors come true trifecta that
>everyone's betting on this year (mac mini, intel switch, ?), I'd
>wager money on a newton replacement before a Dell buyout. Frankly,
>the corporate culture of Dell and Apple wouldn't mesh too well.
>Sadly, I'd see an IBM buyout of Apple (which won't happen now) before
>a buyout by Dell. Maybe an Apple buyout of Dell or a partnership with
>Dell to sell x86 OS X machines. Perhaps Apple will find that selling
>logic boards with Open Firmware, firewire, et. al plus the OS to OEM
>vendors is lucrative.>For now, however, I'm going to keep betting on
the resurrection of
>the newton to complete the unlikely rumors trifecta.
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