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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <9530@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 5 Nov 90 16:14:09 GMT
References: <1990Nov4.230955.4323@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Nov5.042826.28732@world.std.com> <1990Nov5.064724.16646@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Nov5.064724.16646@agate.berkeley.edu> knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
>First, this statement was made before the September 18th rollout of the 
>new NeXTs.  Yes, the market for the NeXT looked small before then, with
>only about 7,000 machines sold in a year. However, it was announced on
>Sept. 18th that 15,000 2.0 machines had been sold in the two months
>prior to the public showing of NeXT 2.0.  NeXT is gaining momentum in 
>both the academic and business world.  


  15,000 * 6 = 90,000 machines per year.  Macintosh, in its FIRST year, sold
500,000, and it was NOT an overwhelmingly popular machine.  It was seen as
making very little headway into business and only a little more into
academia.

  Seven years later, Macs have ALMOST won the battle to be accepted as a
mainstream machine.  If NeXT had sold TEN TIMES as many machines, they'd be
doing well.  If NeXT had sold FIVE TIMES as many machines, it would be tough
for them. At only 7,500 per month it will still be a bitter fight for survival
at NeXT.

  When NeXT has an installed base of 1,000,000 is when I'm laying my money
on the line.  Not a minute before.  I love UNIX and Mach and I think
NeXTstep is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's just too shaky a
company for a mainstream user.

-- Mark Wilkins
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