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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Next intro: any effect on Mac _high-end_ prices?
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Date: 13 Oct 90 00:11:22 GMT
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In article <1990Oct6.071135.14257@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>
>  So, the IIfx and the IIci are not that significant to Apple's product 
>line? They're aimed at a similar audience who wants and can afford to
>pay for some performance. In that market, NeXT has a basic offering
>that, IMHO as a die hard Mac user, walks all over the IIfx at a third
>the cost. (Add up monitor, enet card, some software, ...)  The new
>NeXTs won't magically rise to preeminence because of (1) it's heart of
>UNIX (2) it's not already in millions of offices and (3) it has a
>small, high priced software base. (2) is a matter of marketing while (1) 
>I can't really make a valid comment on since I haven't done any sys admin 
>things with a NeXT. With all the rave reviews for the interface builder,
>I suspect (3) might come quicker than you suspect if sales take off. If
>were at Apple, I'd sure as heck be interested in going after market share
>as aggressively as NeXT is. Or would that be to realistic of a view?
>
	Robert, you missed the whole point... Unix is NOT for everyone.
	The only thing that NeXt Runs under is Unix...While the IIci
	and the IIfx are high performance machines, and can run AUX,
	Joe Average is NOT buying AUX. You might, maybe I will, but do
	you really consider yourself an "average" computer user? I doubt
	it.  

	My Comment was pointed to the very fact that Unix is NOT for
	everyone and that by this very point are Apple's platforms really
	in any direct competition with NeXt? I don't think so. Perhaps
	when you install AUX, but the actual number of users there I 
	suspect is quite low.

	Apple is pursuing Market share with the new releases, while we
	can easily slam some of the design decisions they made in new
	machines, I don't think that we can effectively speak for the
	new computer user that will want the ease of use that the 
	Macintosh provides and perhaps with some decent street pricing
	will be able to get the power of a Macintosh for $2k or less.
	Maybe not the power houses like the IIci or IIfx.. but the new
	Mac's will serve I think a missing market that Apple has been
	overlooking for a while...


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