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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion
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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (9152)1/23/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: David Eddy   of 13949
 
Michal -

do any of you think that AAPL may be a sort of y2k play?

With the latest developments in the company, the fact that Macs are said to be y2k compliant

Actually it's an excellent idea... however there are some gottchas :-(

Regarding the "y2k compliant" part of Macs... while the native operating system date calls are indeed Y2Kok, such niceties do not force developers to either use those date calls or then handle dates properly within the application.

Bottom line is that it is no more difficult to have written Y2Kbad apps for a Mac than for a PC or a mainframe.

I know for a fact one very popular cross platform (DOS, Win, Mac) app which is built on xBase has (could now have been fixed in fresher release than what I saw last year) serious Y2K issues.

And YES, if Jobs & Co put their heads in the right place they potentially could make a very nice Y2K message for Mac... unfortunately, Jobs is a marketing guy & not technical. Last year I was lucky enough to have Mary Farrell ask Jobs on Wall Street Week about Y2K... Jobs blew it away as a mainframe problem that would cost a few "tens of millions of dollars". He might wake up, but somehow I think his available bandwidth is already taken.

BTW... I just bought my 5th Mac.

- David
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