Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!ucla-seas!JPRICE@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu From: jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: It's off until first half of '91 Message-ID: <0093D408.262D5B40@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 23:01:44 GMT References: Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) Organization: UCLA Particle Physics Research Group Lines: 36 In article , clg@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Craig Lee Gruneberg) writes: >Latest copy of MacWEEK puts ship date of System 7.0 into first half >of calendar year 1991. Same crap about meeting the companies exacting >quality standards! Bad attitude here. Here Apple is telling us "hey, we're still having problems with it, so rather than ship a product that's second-rate, we're gonna work on it a bit more." And you're *flaming* them! *FLAME ON* Get off their backs about it! Otherwise, maybe they'll stop telling us about it, and we'll sit around, not having the slightest clue when it'll come out! *FLAME OFF* I will re-state what I've said before (seems like it was the last time this subject came up) - announcements of ship dates, be they real or imaginary, should *always* be taken with a grain of salt (some might want to use the whole shaker! :) I use them in order to plan purchases of other software products - for instance, system 7 vs. ATM. Anyone relying on them as gospel is setting themselves up to be disappointed - they are *never* on time. Look at it this way - had they shipped now, how would you like dealing with a buggy system? I bet you'd be flaming Apple a hell of a lot more than you are now... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Price | Internet: jprice@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu 5-145 Knudsen Hall | BITNET: price@uclaph UCLA Dept. of Physics | DECnet: uclapp::jprice Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547 | YellNet: 213-825-2259 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where there is no solution, there is no problem.