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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Chicken Little
Date: 6 Jun 2014 13:52:08 GMT
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On 2014-06-06, FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even better...  I found the "Apple Death Knell" counter... an oldie, but 
> a goodie.
>
> http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/29.5.shtml
>
> "It happens every few weeks: Someone new jumps on the bandwagon loudly 
> proclaiming that Apple will soon be dead. It's been happening since the 
> early 1980s, and still Apple, and its doom sayers, keep chugging along. 
> We decided that it would be interesting to collect these stories, 
> prognostications, predictions, and premature eulogies in a sort of 
> testimonial of buffoonery, and we are calling it The Apple Death Knell 
> Counter.
> We shall keep a running total of the number of times that Apple has been 
> declared dead or dying, with links to each one (whenever possible), the 
> date it was published, and the person who so blithely set upon the path 
> of being utterly wrong. With luck, we'll eventually get back to the 
> primordial Death Knell, whose peals have rung on long past their normal 
> life spans."

It's kind of a shame they didn't keep it going after 2002, as I'm sure
there would be many, many more entries by now.

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