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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager)
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.000251.9361@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 22 Sep 89 00:02:51 GMT
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As quoted from <20029@usc.edu> by kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman):
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> (this was Alex @ ???.cambridge.apple.com)
| ] When you take advantage of the power of new machines, you inevitably
| ] add features that can't be supported on older machines.  This is part
| ] of the price of progress.  Of course, you should make every effort to
| ] support backward compatibility, and Apple is doing that (much more so
| ] than many other computer companies).  But if you want inovation, you
| ] have to admit some degree of obsolesence.
| 
| Read what I said. I didn't say that Apple should or shouldn't do
| anything. I was merely explaining why people are upset. They bought a
| promise and the promise is no longer there.
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I have also pointed out that the price of progress is a lot lower in the PC
market, because Apple isn't forced by competition to keep their prices in a
reasonable range.

++Brandon
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