subject: The Only Problem Was That Gasse Wanted More Money For His Fledgling Beos Than Apple Was Willing To [print this page] Apple originally bid $120m, then $200m, but Gasse demanded $400m. Apple instead bought NeXT for $429m, when it threw in original founder Steve Jobs as part of the package. The rest, as they say, is history.
Bicycle We're all used to calling our Apple PCs "Macs", even though it's a pretty random name taken from a type of apple and then misspelled to avoid litigation.
But would we be so at ease talking about our Apple Bicycles,Toshiba pa3399u-2brs battery installing Bicycle OS X or reading Bicycleworld?
That's right, for a short hushed moment in time Steve Jobs considered calling the Mac project "Bicycle". Gulp.
Steve considered personal computers "bicycles for the mind," and he demanded that the Macintosh code-name be dropped. Toshiba pa3421u-1brs battery Luckily for all of us, the engineers refused.
Blueberry A full year after Research In Motion launched the BlackBerry Apple released the Blueberry iMac one of its so-called fruity new iMac colours, replacing the kind of greenish Bondi Blue (see later; not much later).
Boing Mac OS X might look lovely but it sounds rather dull. Back in the carefree days of System 7 Apple gave us a bunch of silly sounds for alert noises. Many had onomatopoeic names like Clink-Clank, Wild Eep, Uh Oh, Bip, and, for the purposes of this list, Boing.
Bondi Blue The rather odd colour (RGB: 0, 149, 182) that changed the world, presumably named after the clear waters of Australia's Bondi Beach where the company now has its own Apple Store. Bondi is an Aboriginal word meaning either "water breaking over rocks" or "a place where a flight of nullas took place".
Bounce When you open an application its icon bounces in the Mac's Dock while it launches. The longer the bouncing goes on, though, the more annoying it becomes.
For example, you need to check your emails at the start of the day and after you start up your Mac you blearily click on Microsoft Entourage. The little purple 'e' icon jumps up and down like a kid on a trampoline, and then keeps doing so while you regret not making a cup of tea while you were waiting.Toshiba pa3465u-1brs battery Watching that kettle boil would be more productive than sitting waiting for Entourage to get on with it and display your emails. You start to will the icon to bounce a little faster maybe even a little higher.
But most annoying of all is the attention-seeking bouncing icon that wants you to do something (usually install yet another update to Acrobat Reader). This bouncing can carry on for hours if you don't attend to the needy app, tempting you to bang your own head repeatedly into the ceiling. Bouncing is meant to be fun, not a constant nagging nudge in the ribs.
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