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http://www.appleturns.com/scene/?id=3701
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...But don't let that stop you from taking in today's AtAT. While today's episode doesn't seem to take into account the latest hoax report, it does teeter back and forth across the "joke" threshold-- and it's plenty funny to boot.
But that's just the warm-up for further fun little factoids from Apple-land:
Meanwhile, if you took a lot of guff from Gateway fans back in 1997 or thereabouts because Apple was "going out of business," feel free to call them up and gloat unattractively; not only is Gateway still copying Apple's designs, but the company is also now losing money (while Apple's making a profit) and shipping fewer systems than Apple is. No joke; Apple says it sold 813,000 Macs last quarter, while Gateway only shipped 645,000 cowboxes. Of course, there's the fact that Apple's 813,000 Macs were sold worldwide, while Gateway's 645,000 number is for U.S. sales only-- but considering that Gateway pretty much shut down its overseas operations last August and claims that it's "no longer actively selling its products" in the UK, Australia, Japan, etc., we figure those 645,000 domestic systems basically do represent the company's total units sold worldwide.
In other words, yes, Apple appears to be kicking Gateway's flank steaks up one wall and down the other. Yeah, who's beleaguered now, punk?
Huh. I didn't see that one coming, but hey, we'll take it.
Who else suspects that in five years, Dell will be the only PC hardware maker left in the world?
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