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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <9592@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 8 Nov 90 21:25:43 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.195530.17113@cbnewsl.att.com> wag1@cbnewsl.att.com (d.wagley) writes:
>Seems I remember hearing this same argument from the DOS people when
>I bought my mac. Anybody remember when Macpaint and MacWrite were just
>about the only software around for the Mac?



  Yes, you did hear it then.  I've been in the Mac world from the beginning
because a friend from high school got a Mac 128K in 1984 and we spent HOURS
with MacPaint and MacWrite and the old ImageWriter doing all kinds of silly
things.  However, I would not have purchased one.  

  Even now, I would be willing to spend a lot of effort learning to use a
NeXT just as I did with the Mac before.  But I wouldn't buy one.  Perhaps
those of us who follow the logic above just aren't risk-takers, but suppose
that you bought a new type of car and the air conditioning system was 
vaporware, its release set for third quarter '91 and probably dependent on 
the car's success?

  Sure you could get where you're going, and if it's a car equivalent of a
NeXT you might even be able to cruise at 180 mph with a perfect ride for under
$8,000 investement in your automobile.  However, those summer days get awfully
hot here in California. :-)

  So don't think that because we don't want one for our very own we hate the
NeXT.  It's just too much a risk.  Maybe next year, or the year after, it
won't be.  I'll be quick to put my money down as soon as NeXT turns a
profit, myself.  But by then, something new and risky will have come along,
Jobs will be starting "LaST, Incorporated" after being ousted from NeXT when
Michael Eisberg (formerly of Disney) becomes CEO, and this same battle will
be fought all over again.  But the it will be YOU in our place.

-- Mark Wilkins
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