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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: <1989Sep23.021909.8835@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 23 Sep 89 02:19:09 GMT
References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <459@amanue.UUCP> <20020@usc.edu> <1211@cbnewse.ATT.COM> <5068@ubc-cs.UUCP> <4312@internal.Apple.COM>
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As quoted from <4312@internal.Apple.COM> by rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe):
+---------------
| I thought that "the computer for the rest of us" meant it was easy for my 
| old Auntie Phoebe to use a Mac: you don't have to be a techno-geek (like 
| me :-) to understand it. I never thought it meant that a Macintosh was 
| cheap (um, "inexpensive"). Since when was the Mac ever cheap?
+---------------

Tell me, was your old Auntie Phoebe rich, too?  At the time, I accepted that
the Mac was expensive:  it was, quite simply, more advanced than anything
available at a lower price.

But in my posting that started this thread, my complaint was that I CAN NOW
GET THE EQUIVALENT TECHNOLOGY FOR LESS from others.  It's not as nice, but
what makes it nice -- the software -- is not the expensive part.  Nobody at
Apple has yet addressed my original complaint; should I conclude that Apple
has conceded the point?

++Brandon
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