Briefly: Prey demo, Greenpeace keynote spoof
updated 06:35 pm EST, Fri January 12, 2007
Greenpeace keynote spoof
Briefly Aspyr today released a free demo of the upcoming first person shooter Prey for Mac, which will begin shipping to retail stores in North American next week and will be available for $50.... Following the "greening" of the Apple Store SF earlier this week (see photos), Greenpeace has posted video spoof of a keynote that it hoped Jobs would deliver at the Expo: "Steve Jobs announced the cool new phone, and it looks impressive, but he hasn’t committed Apple to more ecologically sound policies… So we went ahead and made a video of the keynote address we'd like to see.".... Apple CEO Steve Jobs lost a bid to demolish a Spanish Colonial Revival-style mansion he owns about 30 miles south of San Francisco, after a California appeals court ruled this week that Jobs and the city of Woodside, where the 17,250-square-foot mansion was built on six acres in about 1925, didn't consider alternatives to destroying the home.
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I wonder what the strategy is. It could be a move to enhance press coverage as suggested, but if Cisco does have the stronger position Apple will look foolish. Perhaps the suggestion elsewhere on the interweb that Cisco didn't properly protect their trademark is behind Apple's decision. I think we'll know before the product launches...