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Gobe Returns

Saturday April 5, 2003 11:26 am PST by Arnold Kim
Gobe Software has returned (as reflected by their website)



    Gobe is back! We are currently working onthe next version of Gobe Productive, the popular award winning software. Stay tune for more news on products, distributors andresellers.



Gobe produced an office suite for Windows, Linux and the BeOS platforms which met positive reviews... and until this most recent website update, Gobe had ceased business operations.



Apple reportedly recruited three of GoBe's founders (but not Gobe, itself) -- Scott Holdaway, Scott Lindsey, and Carl Grice -- who are currently working at Apple on an undisclosed project.



Apple is rumored to be working on a Office suite due later this year, according to ThinkSecret. The word processor component ('Document') was first reported by MacWhispers, and later corroborated by ThinkSecret. MacOSXRumors gave first notice of an Apple Office suite in the works in July 2002.

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cbrantly
116 months ago
So does this mean that they are done working on Apple's office suite or it is just vaporware?
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arn
116 months ago

Originally posted by cbrantly
So does this mean that they are done working on Apple's office suite or it is just vaporware?


Well,

Presumably the Gobe founders are still working at Apple, and Gobe is moving forward without them... but that's all my speculation/assumption.

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MhzDoesMatter
116 months ago
seems like if apple had assimilated the ship and all its crew the company would have just kept quiet until it was announced as an apple company and software debuted. Or maybe there would have been a press release stating Apple bought another business. So I'm thinking maybe they just decided to get back in the game on their own volition, perhaps with some encouragement from our fruit company.


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arn
116 months ago

Originally posted by MhzDoesMatter
seems like if apple had assimilated the ship and all its crew the company would have just kept quiet until it was announced as an apple company and software debuted. Or maybe there would have been a press release stating Apple bought another business. So I'm thinking maybe they just decided to get back in the game on their own volition, perhaps with some encouragement from our fruit company.


Hertz


Sorry if the original article wasn't clear.

Gobe and Apple are seperate entities.

Apple just happened to recruit several of Gobe's founders when they went under.

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MhzDoesMatter
116 months ago
Actually, I was sorta just answering a lingering question I had after reading somewhere else I think about Apple having possibly bought the company. This article didn't lead me to that conclusion at all.

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jimjiminyjim
116 months ago
What a strange rumor. It's quite intriguing. They were a business, then a bunch of them got recruited by apple, then they weren't a business, and now they are.

Why did they disband? Why did they regroup?

(edited because I'm a freak, and didn't want "Why did they disband" to read "why did the disband")
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backspinner
116 months ago

We will begin to accept orders after April 15, 2003.

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d46799
116 months ago
Yipeeeeee:D
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