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Apple Fools Day

Posted by timothy on from the think-envious dept.

coolmacdude writes "Browsing the web today I came across several interesting stories. These include Steve Jobs resignation, a PPC 970 powered iPod, a gigantic 19 inch Powerbook , and of course the venerable Apple goes bankrupt."

22 comments

  1. You missed by leviramsey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard something about an evil bit being added to IPv4, but I haven't seen any links to it. Can anyone assist me? This sounds like something Slashdot would be very interested in...

    1. Re:You missed by coolmacdude · · Score: 1

      Hmm, sounds pretty dull to me. I'm not sure the eds would consider it worthy of a /. story.

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  2. Re:Apple didnt go bankrupt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Apple fools on you! Apple has spent a good part of the 4 billion. Recent SEC filing show about half that.

  3. Two more by wka · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't forget TidBITS' annual April Fools issue.

    Amusing items in this year's issue:

    • Apple Reschedules WWDC Yet Again
    • Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X
    • Catching Up with the Voice of Macintosh: Fred
    And, for today, Crazy Apple Rumors Site is Painfully Serious Dell Rumors Site.
    1. Re:Two more by Otter · · Score: 1
      Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X

      Of course, this is funny precisely because so many people (including me) would love to have such a thing. If only so I could copy text and paste it into the Find dialog box again!

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    2. Re:Two more by coolmacdude · · Score: 1

      Forget Fred, what about Zarvox?

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    3. Re:Two more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This isn't much new, Apple is broke. I don't expect to see many jokes in this section a year from now, should it still even exist.

    4. Re:Two more by snolan · · Score: 1
      Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X

      Damn you, you tease!

      That was the best and last useable version of Word.... (grin)

  4. What a 19" powerbook says about you... by CaptCanuk · · Score: 1

    you are seriously trying to compensate for something.

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    1. Re:What a 19" powerbook says about you... by Loosewire · · Score: 1

      not having breakfast? ;-)

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    2. Re:What a 19" powerbook says about you... by jonpavilion · · Score: 1

      You would really be overcompensating with that 19" powerbook if it was real. If you look at the page it is 19" wide, not diagonally.

      That powerbook would actually be a 21" powerbook

  5. Steve Jobs resignation by Otter · · Score: 1
    Reminds me of a really nasty Apple prank: when Steve Jobs was the interim CEO and they were looking for a permanent one, one Apple zealot barraged Jobs with emails insisting that he was the ideal candidate.

    So Steve wrote him an email offering him the job, and got Larry Ellison to send him a message of congratulations. The guy took it seriously and showed up at Apple and security kicked him out.

    Link here. Pretty mean, if you ask me. And don't billionaires have better things to do?

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  6. That's sooo last year... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    This one from last year still makes me smile. (but then I'm easily pleased)

  7. Not bad, but not too funny. by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 1

    MacGamer has some much better stories today, though you might not get some of them if you don't follow the Mac gaming industry, or are at least somewhat familiar with the companies involved.

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  8. Apple is 27 years old today... by codeonezero · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well I guess no one has yet noticed or remembered but Apple was incorporated on April 1, 1976

    I think we can thank the Woz for that :)

    You know Woz was the biggest prankster of the two or so it seems.

    See Link below for info:
    http://www.lowendmac.com/time/index.shtml

    -Esteban

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    1. Re:Apple is 27 years old today... by coolMikeUSC · · Score: 1

      clickable link, for those of us who are lazy ;)

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  9. You forgot the 486 Gaussian Blur gag. by mkldev · · Score: 1
    Part of my weekly comic strip (delayed a couple days to coincide with April 1.) It's at http://www.techmagazine.org/, or http://www.techmagazine.org/cartoons/?id=20030401 after Sunday.

    Could be worse, though. I thought about saying that Apple would team up with Microsoft (MSN) and Dell and create an ISP called the

    Dell
    Apple
    Microsoft
    Network for
    Information
    Technology

    but I figured too few people would catch the joke. :-)

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  10. aww damn it by ahknight · · Score: 1

    Well crap, I've been Slashdotted. There goes the DSL line... grr.

    It just doesn't have the prestige it used to, eh? Oh well, there's more to life than the Internet ...

    Right? [whimper]

  11. Re:Apple didnt go bankrupt by ahknight · · Score: 1

    They have a lot of money in the bank. ~4 billion.

    You ever wrote that article is pretty stoopit

    Um, dude, I think that's the point. It's called humor. That is, claiming things to happen that can't ... possibly ... happen...

    Ok, I admit it, I feed trolls. Sue me.

  12. Half Life Announced! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My favorite April Fools joke of the day was that Inside Mac Games (http://www.insidemacgames.com) announced they would be publishing Half Life for mac. Amazing that even though it is April 1st, they priced the preorder at $150 and they announced that the game could only run in software render mode, some people on the forums actually thought it was true. I laughed my ass off when some guy got excited that he could finally play counterstrike. hehe.