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Apple.com, Year 2000

1 points by josephcohen 13y ago

Jonathan_Swift 13y ago
Heh. Back around the Summer of 1998, while my C++ Mac OS GUI was going along well, my client flatly refused to ask his own staff to QA my deliverables. With each delivery, I would politely and rationally provide a request that were they to find any bugs of any sort, that I would fix them promptly were they to report them to me. I was so intimately familiar with that product that I didn't really need regresssion, &c. But no, it was not to be: "YOUR DELIVERY HAS A BUG IN IT! FIX IT YOUR YOU DON'T GET PAID!" "Of course. I'll deliver you a fixed binary by end of day tomorrow. So what exactly does my build do..." CLICK. So I dropped a dime to a friend I knew from bedevtalk@be.com I had not previously know that he was a QA engineer at Be, Inc. itself, but I did know he was quite astute. I offered to pay him to QA my binaries, but he refused to accept payment. "I'll be there tomorrow morning." He drove "Over The Hill" from Silicon Valley to my home in Santa Cruz, and walked in the door carrying a first-gen iMac with a bright blue candy-colored case, as well as a coiled-up one hundred foot CAT5 cable. The very first iMacs were such a huge hit in large part because they all had the very same physical design, but the user had the choice of five distinctly different, quite bright and eye-catching colors of cases. A year or so after their huge splash in the retail market, The Dark Side Of Steve hit the trade rags: Apple would not restock your inventory unless you purchased an equal quantity of EACH of the five colors. My favorite color is a somewhat deep sky blue, as during early morning twilight. What's yours? Without a doubt, if we polled five random people, three of them would have the very same favorite color. Only that first iMac generation had a selection of more than one color. This because Apple clued in to "Grey Market" iMacs being sold at Fry's Electronics and other shops that were NOT Apple Authorized Dealers. iMac users were heavily into the Grey Market iMacs as they were so much cheaper than iMacs from Authorized Dealers. This because their serial numbers were carved off with chisels!

1 points by josephcohen 13y ago

Heh. Back around the Summer of 1998, while my C++ Mac OS GUI was going along well, my client flatly refused to ask his own staff to QA my deliverables. With each delivery, I would politely and rationally provide a request that were they to find any bugs of any sort, that I would fix them promptly were they to report them to me. I was so intimately familiar with that product that I didn't really need regresssion, &c. But no, it was not to be: "YOUR DELIVERY HAS A BUG IN IT! FIX IT YOUR YOU DON'T GET PAID!" "Of course. I'll deliver you a fixed binary by end of day tomorrow. So what exactly does my build do..." CLICK. So I dropped a dime to a friend I knew from bedevtalk@be.com I had not previously know that he was a QA engineer at Be, Inc. itself, but I did know he was quite astute. I offered to pay him to QA my binaries, but he refused to accept payment. "I'll be there tomorrow morning." He drove "Over The Hill" from Silicon Valley to my home in Santa Cruz, and walked in the door carrying a first-gen iMac with a bright blue candy-colored case, as well as a coiled-up one hundred foot CAT5 cable. The very first iMacs were such a huge hit in large part because they all had the very same physical design, but the user had the choice of five distinctly different, quite bright and eye-catching colors of cases. A year or so after their huge splash in the retail market, The Dark Side Of Steve hit the trade rags: Apple would not restock your inventory unless you purchased an equal quantity of EACH of the five colors. My favorite color is a somewhat deep sky blue, as during early morning twilight. What's yours? Without a doubt, if we polled five random people, three of them would have the very same favorite color. Only that first iMac generation had a selection of more than one color. This because Apple clued in to "Grey Market" iMacs being sold at Fry's Electronics and other shops that were NOT Apple Authorized Dealers. iMac users were heavily into the Grey Market iMacs as they were so much cheaper than iMacs from Authorized Dealers. This because their serial numbers were carved off with chisels!