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From: man@vali.cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine)
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Subject: Re: Status of System 7
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Date: 16 Aug 90 13:16:08 GMT
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In article <3772@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>,
gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes:
|>	Hopefully, with the fiasco about System 7.0 and the recent
|>problems with getting HyperCard 2.0 out the door, Apple is learning
|>something about announcing products -before- they're ready to ship.

** Sigh **  Seems that no matter what Apple does, somebody is going to
make them into applesauce.  When Apple didn't let people know what they
were doing in advance, people complained because their software broke
with new releases.  And people complained that they wanted to know what
was going to be in the next version of HyperCard so they wouldn't have
to work around problems that would be fixed in the new version.  Now
Apple lets people in on preliminary information and they get flamed
(Apple crisp?) for leading people on.  Apple is certainly learning
_something_...

I personally prefer to have advance information, even if it only makes
me drool for a while (or maybe it's just all this talk about applesauce
and apple crisp that makes me drool).

	--Mark