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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Wednesday, June 09, 2004Apple CEO Jobs misses '3Ghz G5 within a year' prediction by wide marginMacDailyNews: "On June 23, 2003, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the Power Mac G5 line saying, 'Within 12 months, we will be at 3GHz,' Jobs said. 'Believe me, this architecture has legs.' (source) Well, 12 months will have elapsed on June 23, 2004, two weeks from today, and Apple has just announced their new Power Mac G5 line with the top of the line Dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 'expected to be available in July,' according to Apple's press release. This will make Apple's fastest available Power Mac G5 a Dual 2.0 GHz on June 23, 2004. Or exactly where they were 12 months ago when the top-of-the-line Power Mac was, you guessed it, a dual 2Ghz G5 machine ... No matter how way you cut it, Apple (with help from IBM) have missed another yet prediction, echoing the PR disaster of Job's artificial '100 million songs sold in the first year' publicly stated goal. The best way to look at it? Apple will have a very fast, very nice Dual 2.5GHz G5 machine a month later (if it ships) than Jobs stated the company would be selling a 3Ghz G5 Power Mac. The worst way to see it? Apple is shipping basically the same top-of-the-line computer (granted, for $500 less, with a faster optical drive and a better graphics card) as it shipped a year ago ... Steve Jobs needs a wakeup call on this idiotic prediction business he's manufactured ... I see Jobs opening the company up to unnecessary criticism. My advice? Mr. Jobs should keep his mouth shut regarding predictions that state hard numbers that can be missed and easily refuted."Sure. Apple should keep making bogus, but vague, claims that are not so easily refuted. :) [ Posted at 11:38 AM | Permalink ]
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