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Apple Junkyard

Junkyard

I think that the junkyard will be the name for the second level emulator that will run os 9 in the OSX upadate after jaguar.
 
Maybe it's an OS X version of the classic Mac OS Scrapbook accessory. Well, they registered Finder, one site says Apple trademarked "Desktop", Mac,many iApp's names. They would have been trademarked in all cxountries-that's why:
__________&_______are trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. in the US and other countries.
 
maybe it sounded cool........

maybe apple needs money so they are goan go start sueing all the "junkyard" out there for copy right infrigment.....to what end i am not sure, the junk yards will probably end up paying with bottles and cans taht trade it for 10C each....

or maybe there gona rename iphoto, junkyard cuz thats just about al it is, a really slow, annoying aplacation for photos no one cares about but want to keep..........:D

Or maybe Steve was abducted by aliens, and when they finally finished with him the word junkyard sounded really cool.......er yayayaya

Just thoughts:cool:

-Pat
 
Hm... is this good or bad?

My birthday is July 12th!!!!

Why couldn't they do something cool like new powermacs or something instaed of grabbing the name "Junkyard"

Maybe it's something for junk email to go into - for use with .mac
 
Speaking of birthdays...mine's August 22nd, so I'm hoping for nice present of a PowerMac announcement within that timeframe...*crosses fingers*:D
 
.Mac?

Maybe they need a new name for .Mac after September 30th? Except I would think a better name for that place will be Graveyard. No one will be there...
 
It's a font

You guys are getting pretty worked up over the name of a font, you know that?

Heh.
 
Has these words been trademarked? :

System 10
System 9
System 8
System 11
System 12


I thought Apple would trademark System 6, System 7 and so on , but there are sites using that name.
 
I reckon it's a new name for the refurbished part of the Apple store.

Another awful example of Apple attempting to be "cool"...............:(
 
use for Junkyard

I like the idea of it being a new junkmail feature, but I also thought it might be the name of the next generation powermac, with its industrial like metal case. Kind of what you would expect to find if they built computers on Junkyard Wars.
 
Originally posted by iwantanewmac


It's about freakin' time.......... :)
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And Apple gives every who dumps their old G4's brand spanking G5's!!!!!!!!

IF ONLY!!!!! :D
 
I hope it has everything to do with JYD, the Junkyard Dog!!! Raptors fans hear me!! WOOF!! JYD's dog pound in the house!! T.O. champs in 2003! WOOF! WOOF! I'm Poochie the rockin' dog!

N.B. Sorry I hcould not resist, but any Raps fans are feelin what I got to say
 
I'm thinking it has something to do with email as well, it is really the only thing that makes sense at this point.
 
Surely it will be this....

http://macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=5107

I think its to do with the recycling laws...

If anyone has seen the massive junkyards in Europe full of fridges after similar laws over white goods you'll know what I mean.

I think everyone has missed the boat with the wishful thinking PC idea. Perhaps I'll be proved wrong....

Junk mail is possible too I guess, but if Apple are putting money into the recycling directive, the trademark backs it up...
 
Refurbished macs, not junkyard macs...

Originally posted by Joshlew
I reckon it's a new name for the refurbished part of the Apple store.

Another awful example of Apple attempting to be "cool"...............:(
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...Well, i'm not sure about this idea...

I mean, the "refurbished Macs" store is supposed to sound like: "ok, dear client, this lonely Mac over there is a little scratched up here and there, but we fixed it up and it works great, all guaranteed, yahoo".

Now, just imagine the psycholgical effect (trauma ?) of a "Junkyard Macs" store - "well, yeah, we found that one back there in the garden, it spent a couple of months in the cold and the rain, but we could finally take all the rats out of it, and it runs pretty ok now. Truuuuue, you still have to be careful about not keeping it switched on for more than 45mn, if you don't want nocive fumes in your room, but the firemen said last time it was more impressive from outside".

What i want to say is that Apple still wants to sell, and you don't sell something by implicitely saying "this is a piece of junk".
Just think about the clean side of "refurbished" - you read "fixed and checked for you" -. How many hours did they spend to choose this name ?

Arnaud,

who's quite happy about the last G4 :) ,
and even happier NOT to have bought a G4 last month :) :)
 
has anyone else noticed apple is turning into a "green" company? First the xserve (either world or companys first recyclable computer) then all of these stupid green themed icons (the triangles beneath icons in jaguar, the NEW! symbols on their product page) whats going on? no more aqua now we have emerald :eek:
 
Green Apple...

Originally posted by BongHits
has anyone else noticed apple is turning into a "green" company?
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Well, there might be one reason for Apple (and other computer companies) to be forced into turning "green".

Based on my personal home experience (!), i would tend to believe that the computer market is slowly saturating, as so many computers have been bought in the last years (could that also be the reason why major computer companies are going through hard times now ?).
The problem is that, to keep on living, these companies have to sell us new (better, faster, nicer) computers, when all we want is to keep on our investment - normal situation for any sector, right ?
So, better, faster, nicer computers are released, which brings the necessity for us to change our hardware (and increase our investment) but what do we do with our former machines ?

The above mentioned "home experience" includes 1 Apple IIe, 1 LC, 1 Classic II, 1 Quadra 600, 1 PMac 4400, and 1 PBook 3400.
In all that list, the Apple IIe was the only one to leave my house for another owner, and all the rest found a place somewhere else: mainly, on shelves in my former bedroom, which slowly turns into a (dusty) museum.

The only reason this hardware (but for the 4400 and 3400) doesn't end up in the trash is guilt (and now, some ecological guilt too, as Apple products are not green yet!).
Although i'd love to give them to somebody who would need them, there is NOTHING they can be used for anymore, and i expect my 3400 and 4400 to be in the same situation really soon - USB, Firewire, MacOsX, etc... are discriminating concepts for me... (tears).
Even Internet: you can basically access e-mail and html, but for the rest...

Some people might come with the comment that a 4400 can be upgraded. Right. It can. But it has a price too - add USB, Firewire, 128Mo, a G3/400MHz chip, a bigger HD, go through the funny process of trying to install OSX, and you finally get... an expensive solution compared to the price of a new eMac / iMac, and not as powerful.

So my point is: Apple (and other companies) products share the same destiny of ending up in the junkyard, no other solution... We all know that as soon as we buy a computer, it is really hard to sell back, and hard to get supplies or stuff for after 6 months...

My next computer will certainly be one of the newly released dual-G4, which i'll use and extend/upgrade as long as possible, until the day it'll be less useful than my coffee machine. (I contemplated buying a 17" iMac, with the idea it would anyway go for a nice DVD-player when it's outdated, but then realized the DVD-standard might as well be outdated in a couple of years...)
Well, from this point of view, i'd rather have a Green (ready for trash...) computer... :)

No mistake: i'm not ranting, just commenting. I accept the rules and play along...

Arnaud...:rolleyes:
 
I wonder if it might be something along the lines of Aladdin's Spring Cleaning software (never released for OS X I believe). It will clean out all your "junk" preferences and files for programs that no longer exist on your computer.

Just a guess...

Jonathan
 
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