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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
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Subject: Re: It's off until first half of '91
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Date: 28 Sep 90 04:44:40 GMT
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ewm@mdavcr.UUCP (Eric W. Mitchell) writes:

>Considering how bad Apple has been about announcing this product with
>such confidence, then dropping 2/3 of the features and constantly
>postponing the release, I think people are entitled to some irritation.

Now, honestly, I am not sure about this, but it was my understanding that:

1) All of the shipping dates were (I agree for political disclaimer reasons)
   estimated dates of shipping only. I have heard of companies that have had
   more "definite" ship dates that fall through. Apple didn't seem to do
   that.

2) The original announcement that we heard a long time ago was an
   "announcement of an intent to develop", i.e. programmers should prepare
   for planned future changes, and was specifically qualified as *NOT* an
   announcement of a shipping date or the like. The only reason people
   have been so hot and bothered about the amount of time this is taking
   is because they heard about the "intent to develop" announcement so
   long ago. If this thread is indicitive of user opinion, I'd imagine
   Apple won't do it again, which is unfortunate for non-certified developers
   like me.

3) The main proposed features would still be implemented. Unless we are
   talking about sub-features (like the folders won't look exactly like
   was proposed), I would be interested to know what features are not
   being implemented. I really didn't think it was 2/3 of them.

Just my perspective. It may be very cloudy out here in Illinois.

pr
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