Apple's Annual General meeting
As expected, no major announcements were made at Apples annual general meeting, though during questioning Steve Jobs made a few, well ... comments really.
Intuit and Apple plan to release a press release soon about a renewed commitment, hopefully reversing last weeks announcement of the cancelling of Quicken for Mac. Rumours spinning around the web since suggest a bundling deal for Quicken on at least some new Macs, but we will have to wait to see for sure.
When quizzed by a shareholder who expressed no interested in computers but who might get interested if the price came down to $500, Jobs said "We're working on it." When further quizzed by a 76-year-old lady if it would be available in her lifetime Jobs said "If you eat right over the next year." So there definitely seems to be noticeable movement in the Apple consumer product.
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Lets go walking in the woods
While walking in the wild woods of Apple's press releases, the following recent announcements were found.
Apple has announced a promotion of MacOS 8.1 and Microsoft Office 98 whereby you can receive US$30 cash back when you purchase both products. Read the press release or go to the promo page for more details.
Hewlett-Packard and Apple announced a "partnering" to "deliver HP's state-of-the-art printers to Macintosh customers." Basically this means that HP makes their printers Mac compatible again, and Apple agrees to sell them to its educational customers. Also Apple has agreed to make a version of ColourSync capable of doing its magic for HP's inkjet printers.
Apple has announced the availability of HyperCard 2.4, an update to its " software development tool used to create interactive applications primarily for training and education". (Apple likes verbose descriptions don't they?) The new version of HyperCard has been QuickTime enabled, allowing the use of the different QuickTime supported files in the new HyperCard environment. HyperCard was the piece of software that, more then QuickTime, caused the Multimedia revolution. It was the software early multimedia applications (like Myst) were written in. HyperCard 2.4 is a free upgrade.
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