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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
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Subject: Re: Oh no ! Yet Another Thread on Mac/NeXT war.
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Date: 16 Nov 90 01:46:39 GMT
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In article <15506@imag.imag.fr>
           gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud) writes:
> I probably missed it, and if it is the case, please correct me,
> but NeXT has no vision (or I didn't understood it).
> I'm sad of it. I like visions. It stimulates me.

I believe the vision of Jobs was to raise the lowest-common-denominator.
He wants the "minimum" machine that people pick up to be a much better
machine (eg: grey scale, bigger monitors, sound chips, etc).  Apple has
lowered the costs on the entry level computer (which is most certainly
welcome!), but the new entry level computer isn't really all that much
better than the old entry level.  A person that ones a Mac Plus isn't
likely to feel bad that his computer is worse than a Classic (even if
he or she wished they had paid less for that Mac Plus).

In some sense I guess I'll argue with my last sentence.  Before the 
Classic, the minimum machine that some people could actually afford was a
PC-clone.  With the new Macs they can afford a Mac, so for those people
the minimum entry level has gotten better.  The NeXT doesn't (by itself)
really lower the minumum unless the cheapest NeXT is within the price
range of "the masses".  It should put downward pressure on all other
computer prices though.

So, I'd be happy to see NeXT continue and thrive, simply to fuel that
particular vision.  That doesn't mean I want to be deluged by any
Mac vs. NeXT religious wars in this newsgroup, but the NeXT machines
themselves are "A Good Thing(tm)".

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA