Problems Cubed

When Apple released the new G4 Cube, many people complained that the clear lucite enclosure had cracks along the edges.  To make matters worse, customers reported that their beloved Cubes were randomly going into sleep mode .  Apple quickly resolved the problem by discontinuing the Cube.

Short Circuit

On February 8, 2002, Apple severed their relationship with Circuit City, notifying them with a corporate memo stating they would be pulling all merchandise and display equipment.  Perhaps this is Apple's way of punishing Circuit City for confusing the DVD standard with a proprietary DVD format called Divx, which died in 1999. 

First Sears, now Circuit City ... is the writing on the wall for reseller CompUSA?  Discuss below!

Vis-a-vi

With Apple's new Mac OS X, which is based on the Unix flavor FreeBSD, it's easy to run terminal applications like vi.  But only a true Mac hacker could get Mac OS X to run on Apple's short-lived legacy Macintosh IIvi!   alt.hacintosh (now called alt.hackintosh) used to be a forum for creative Mac hackers, but now just caters to serial number swappers.

New iMac Plant

Steve Jobs told head designer, Jonathan Ive, that he wanted the new iMac to "look like a sunflower."  Considering Jobs's college studies in pharmacopoeial flora, we're surprised that the plant he chose was not something more inspiring. 

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Little Buddy

Sit right back and you'll hear a tale—a tale of a mysterious Apple server at littlebuddy.apple.com!  In November 2000, several people noticed that their Macs were connecting to the elusive server, but no one knew why.  Some speculated that the IP address was used for data mining, allowing Apple to surreptitiously collect personal information from unsuspecting customers.  Others wondered if the legend of Gilligan's Island was true, and if the motley crew of castaways had somehow constructed a server from coconuts and sticks.  The truth was much less interesting:   Apple's Setup Assistant used the server to transmit registration information.