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10:55 - Insider Information at 35,000 Feet
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2004/06/ichat_at_35k/
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This is pretty cool:
It’s a long flight from Munich to San Francisco, even non-stop. But recently two enterprising Apple product managers cut the distance dramatically with a few at-hand tools: iChat AV, iSight, 17-inch PowerBook G4, a Boeing 777 and an orbiting satellite.
In what might have been the first in-air commercial videoconference, Apple product manager Kurt Knight, on the ground in Cupertino, hooked up over iChat AV with product line manager Eric Zelenka, returning to San Francisco from Munich, by leveraging Lufthansa’s new wireless high-speed broadband connection service.
“Eric broadcast his availability for video chat with the custom status message ‘Wireless at 35K Feet!’” says Knight.
This is an interesting and rather unusual piece of PR, given that it involves actual Apple employees and is hosted on Apple's servers. However, I gotta wonder about this:
Either this is a doctored-up chat, or the SEC and Fred Anderson might have something to say to Mr. Zelenka.
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Brian Tiemann
