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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Virtual Finder
Message-ID: <2725@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 14 Jan 90 12:52:22 GMT
References: <104700068@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <917@appleoz.oz.au> <2707@draken.nada.kth.se> <44580@improper.coherent.com> <2716@draken.nada.kth.se> <44624@improper.coherent.com>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <44624@improper.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:

>I stand corrected.  Please accept my apologies for misstating the case.

No big deal. Great of you to confess in being wrong, thogh.

>Well, perhaps.  I don't think it's that simple, though.

>well-rewarded for taking risks... they're rewarded for getting the
>short-term job done, with acceptable quality and at minimum cost.

And look where it got you :-)

>support.  Those who cannot afford or justify this investment probably
>won't be releasing products that will have any measureable effect on the
>Macintosh market.

>the expense.  As it is, I can't.  Not can I really assert that the
>software which I write, and give away, is sufficiently important that it
>would result in any significant increase in Mac sales, and would thus
>justify (to Apple) any subsidy.

No, maybe not product A, nor product B, nor even product C, but the
multitude of products, all of which functions perfectly and follow the
rules (makeing the customer see "Compaq compatibility problems again"
but no "Apple ditto" in the papers)

>by scrapping their ridiculous 90-day warranty, and moving up to AT LEAST
>1 year.  2 years would be better.  This would directly benefit many,

Well, we don't have these problems, since there's a 2-year warranty
by law on everything sold here (and, yes, there is a prejudice regarding
a pair of shoes that split in the seams after 1.5 years...)

But we have no suits, so we can afford this warranty :-)

h+
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