Sense Of Fashion: Priceless (9/15/03)
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Well, we find ourselves faced with quite a dilemma, here: we've got just one more scene to go, today, and two equally enthralling plot points between which we must choose. On the one hand, we've got Newsweek's little foray into Mac-centric bean-spilling, with its revelation that Apple has "moved up the date for expanding its current Mac-only iTunes for the vast universe of Windows-based PCs to mid-October," which may signal the start of a whole new ball game as Apple redefines itself as a cross-platform digital media service provider for the masses-- a gambit whose success or failure may indeed determine the very future of the company as hearts, minds, and souls hang in the balance.

On the other hand, we've got something about Steve Jobs's wardrobe.

Okay, so Steve's wardrobe it is. (Oh, like it was ever close. Please.)

Here's what we've got: faithful viewer SeanLovesAnna (awwwwwwwww!) tipped us off to the Forbes "Best- And Worst-Dressed Billionaires" lists, in which the publication enlisted the couturial horse sense of Joan and Melissa Rivers (for some reason) to judge the threads of people far richer than they are. But lest you think that His Jobsness might have come off poorly, consider that Joan, quite fairly, understands that style is all about context: "If you're in a new business, a dot-commer, I want you to look casual and hip and current." Well, we're not quite sure Apple qualifies as a new dot-com, but it's the same ballpark, right? So isn't it nice that Steve Jobs tied for fifth place? "He looks right for his job," says Joan, and Melissa adds, "I like Jobs. He's in jeans, he's in jeans, but he's the right age to be in jeans. He looks appropriate in them." (What, no props for the mock turtleneck?)

Meanwhile, guess whom he tied for fifth? None other than his bestest buddy and lifelong pal Larry Ellison, whose personal sense of style runs more to ten thousand-dollar suits (meaning, suits that cost ten thousand dollars, not ten suits that cost a thousand dollars each; the latter would be awfully uncomfortable to wear all at once) than to jeans and turtlenecks. But it apparently works for him, probably because his company Oracle is all about enterprise. "He's got a current look," says Joan; "I would trust him with my money. He's knows what's happening in the world that he's functioning in. He doesn't waste shareholders' time shaving his beard." (Instead he just wastes it racing yachts.) Melissa chimed in with "he looks current without looking ridiculous." Gee, and here we always just thought he looked like the bad guy from Die Hard.

So there you have it: tied for fifth best-dressed, high-tech's very own Felix and Oscar-meet-the-Wonder Twins. And in closing, we can only ask this: What, no Steve Ballmer? But we were told big honkin' sweat stains were in this year!

(By the way, don't forget to vote in the poll! Go Steve, beat Oprah!)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 9/15/03 episode:

September 15, 2003: It's Stevenote Eve, and rumors of an iPod Special Edition are making the rounds. Meanwhile, Apple registers "Garage Band" as perhaps its most cryptic trademark ever, and Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison tie for fifth on Forbes's list of Best-Dressed Billionaires...

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 4204: Special Is As Special Does (9/15/03)   This is it, folks: the last day to get your speculatin' groove on. The Apple Expo Stevenote is tomorrow, so if you've got any last-minute guesswork to squeeze out from between the creases in your grey matter, now's the time to do it...

  • 4205: Far Too Cryptic For Safety (9/15/03)   You know, some people fail to recognize the potential health risks inherent in nonstop Apple-themed prognostication; it can entail some strenuous brain work, and people who leap right in without stretching first have been known to sprain a frontal lobe...

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