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From: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: marketing (was: Re: Boycott 68040 upgrades that include Lotus Improv)
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Date: 18 Oct 90 14:43:05 GMT
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Reply-To: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk)
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The "real" world loves imperfection - if they hear 'Lotus', they are
more likely to buy a NeXT. If they find out, after a while, that the
NeXT is a great machine, it's a plus. Yes, this is sad, but if the
success of NeXT partly depends on Lotus, why shouldn't we encourage the
"big-ones" to produce software for the NeXT? 

The world does not go for the best, but what's best marketable. NeXT
is not appropriately praised by the 'leading' computer magazines
because everybody is afraid of the competition of a machine that
already does everything. The industry prefers if you pay $13000 for
Apple equipment to get the same you would get for $4000 for a NeXT -
there are more companies involved in selling the Apple equipment, thus
more sources push the product.


Axel

Disclaimer: This should not discourage anyone to work on excellent
products. It's simply a sad fact.

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