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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Loss of Mac's 20%... the Mac's
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Date: 9 Jul 90 15:10:23 GMT
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In article <70400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>by doner@aerospace.aero.org (John Doner):
>| Do that, and they won't be around for the long run, or if they are, we won't
>| care.  The money for all that R&D, developing and improving user interfaces,
>| innovative software like Hypercard, etc., let alone the hardware, has to come
>| from somewhere.  
>
>What a load of horsesh*t.  First, it is evident that Apple squanders a
>lot of bucks on "image advertising", not on user interface R & D.
>Have you watched any TV lately?
What the h*ll is wrong with advertising?  Now that they have finally started
SAYING 'Macintosh'...
>
>Second, it is apparent to me (being a former network software
>developer), that Apple is blowing a lot of money on LAN software, 99%
>of which, home & education users cannot take advantage of, and will
>probably never take advantage of.

Education users?  Funny, in high school we had a Corvus disk server that
Apple ][s ran off of.  At UMCP, we have LAN's of all sorts.  (and at home,
I've got a two-computer Appletalk LAN).  Why would LANs not be useful
for education users?
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