I was looking through some old draft posts I never managed to finish, and came across one I intended to publish about Macworld this past January. The big news, of course, was the release of Macintosh computers running the Intel chip instead of Motorola/IBM's PowerPC chip. Fully six months ahead of the announced schedule.

The problem was, the machine that was announced was the iMac, nearly identical to the much slower G5 iMac announced not three months earlier. Many people had bopught the brand new iMac just before Macworld, never dreaming that Apple would so thoroughly update that very computer just three months later.

But they did, immediately rendering obsolete (or at least 2-3x slower) the brand new iMacs of many Apple customers.

This gave rise to the term, "Getting Jobsed," first heard (by me) on Matthew Haughey's web site. Also amusing was Jason Kottke's letter seeking support from Apple.

Ouch. It still stings.