Macworld July 1996

The latest burst of clock speed featured in this issue (with a comment that “while a leap of, say, 132MHz to 150MHz can feel trivial, the seemingly equivalent leap from 150MHz to 180MHz can feel momentous.” In the meantime, my computer at the time, less than a year old, was running at 75 MHz...) As for whether this meant anything in the face of insistences it was a Windows (95) world and we might as well learn to like it, the “news extra” reported on “the broad strokes” of Gil Amelio’s strategy painted at the Worldwide Developers Conference and David Pogue’s column offered a series of rebuttals to dismissals in the press, even if disgruntled Amiga users just might have insisted some of them sounded a bit like comments in Amiga magazines from just a few years back...

Macworld June 1997

High-end Macs featured in this month’s issue. The Apple hardware among the cover models, though, had to be contrasted against news reports of Gil Amelio having to lay off Apple employees again and shut down software projects like OpenDoc (even as there was talk, “fueled by a story in Fortune magazine, that Steve Jobs would stage a palace coup, taking back the helm with help from Oracle CEO Larry Ellison”) and Adrian Mello’s editorial taking on that frequent suggestion that Apple ought to “stop making computers” and just provide software for clone makers (he estimated the company would bring in about a billion dollars yearly that way, well short of even its shriveling revenues at that point). David Pogue’s back-page column used “exactly the same reporting standards we’ve seen applied to Apple” (including mentioning that PC makers including “Acer, Blackship, Canon, DEC, Packard Bell, Tandy, Zenith and others” were closing down) to proclaim Windows was surely in trouble as well.