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From: felner@inf.ethz.ch (Tomas Felner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT desktop & prices
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Date: 14 Sep 90 17:51:43 GMT
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In article <2295@atari.UUCP> mui@atari.UUCP (Derek Mui) writes:
>
>  [Derek extends my list of new TT desktop features]
>
>	Basically, all the features that we have provided are based on 
>what an ordinary user will need the most and from all the COMPLAINTS and 
>CRITICISMS ( please, no more ) that we have received in the past several 
>years. The TT desktop is nothing fancy, all we wanted to do is to make the 
>desktop to be truly useful and hopefully people will enjoy using it.

I often heard complaints about Atari not reacting to all the improvements
suggested by developpers, especially German developpers. As it looks now,
it seems that this wasn't the case at all, at least for the visible desktop
improvements. Who knows what they fixed and improved in the GEMDOS, AES and
VDI internals (Derek?). 

Also, Atari seems to have abandoned its poliy of announcing vapourware. 

Now that we know that Atari listens to user complaints and suggestions,
we should not complain that they don't seem to do anything. By complaining,
we would push them to make early announcements in order to keep us happy.
This, however, would result in vapourware. And, as we all know, vapourware
is no fun at all.

Atari (Allan, Derek, Ken, John and all the others), keep up this policy!!!
Coming up with a new or improved product in a big bang is always better for
the image than talking about vapourware for months and years. Others did so
(Apple, NeXT, Commodore, Sun, IBM and more) and they were always successfull
with it. Why shouldn't you ...

Tomas Felner, felner@inf.ethz.ch