Stevemas (that's Macworld to you) is just around the corner and the Mac web can hardly wait. What will A le wow us with this time around? A true video iPod? New di lays with built in iSights? Only Steve knows for sure, however, let's cast our gaze into A le's past for a moment. Let's go all the way back to January 1997.Picture it: San Francisco, early January 1997. Alanis Mori ette was playing on the radio, though ironically enough her song 'Ironic' wa 't ironic at all. Just last month A le a ounced that they had acquired NeXT. During the Keynote Gil Amelio a ounced that Steve Jo would be returning to the fold. People were ha y right? Well, I am sure some people were but this Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (Find Articles seems to be a big fan of pop u , so fair warning) paints a different picture.
Mac users were worried that A le would be abandoning the Macintosh OS for the Unix based NeXT OS and that their current machines would be rendered usele . They were right, OS X is based on NeXT, but luckily for Mac users it took A le a very long time to get OS X out the door. It is interesting, though, to see the A le faithful a little anxious about having Steve Jo back at A le, since now everyone is afraid that Steve might actually leave A le at some point.
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