Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!ewright From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: <108669@convex.convex.com> Date: 13 Nov 90 17:46:18 GMT References: <2909@unccvax.uncc.edu> <27337f93-fe.1comp.sys.mac.misc-1@tronsbox.xei.com> <3818@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <108294@convex.convex.com> Sender: news@convex.com Organization: Convex Computer Corporation; Richardson, TX Lines: 47 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >What kind of software? Have you been paying attention? The companies >that are writing or have written software for the NeXT have been >mentioned. "Are writing" and "have written" are two different things. It's a bad idea to buy a computer based on promises. I remember when Apple introduced the first Mac. It, too, had a long list of companies (200, as I recall) that were "writing software" for it. The software did eventually materialize, but not until a couple years later, and most of it from companies that were not on that original list. Atari also had such a list of software for the ST, most of which never did materialize. When Commodore introduced the Amiga, Borland announced a version of Turbo Pascal for that machine in the first issue of AmigaWorld. Later, the rumor was that Borland was developing for the ST instead. Today, there is still no Turbo compiler for either machine. >Should I make a list of companies so everyone can call for >themselves. And $500 for a spreadsheet or word-processor is the going >rate. Buy your NeXT before Dec. 31 and get Lotus Improv free :-). Sure, but I'm only interested in products that are on the shelves, not vaporware. As I said, it's easy to compile a list; it's harder to fulfill it. >Read the article to which you replied. The floppy reads and writes >DOS diskettes, and therefore is a standard floppy drive. 2.88M is standard? Where does one even buy 2.88M floppies? >For fun, why >doesn't someone compare Apple's prices one year ago with NeXT's prices >today? For more fun, why doesn't someone compare Apple's prices today with IBM's prices twenty years ago? Or BMW's prices today with Ford's prices in 1952? Or K-Mart's prices now with Sear's prices... People do not make buying decisions based on what prices were in the past, they make them based on what prices are today. Apple was in serious trouble because business did *not* want to pay the premium prices it was charging for its high-end machines. Read the article in last month's Business Week if you don't believe that.