Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!agm From: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Positioning Problem Message-ID: <56039@brunix.UUCP> Date: 11 Nov 90 21:07:00 GMT References: <1990Nov9.160743.18770@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <10939@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 21 In article isaacso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Eric J. Isaacson) writes: >cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao) writes: >>Why NeXT is not making *any* TV ads? Almost no one knows about or ever >>heard about "NeXT computer" here. Some of the poeple (inc professors) >>thought it's a very expensive and slow machine, and it's not IBM compatible... >I had wondered about this, too. But when you consider the cost of >advertising on TV over the number of units NeXT is selling (compared >[...] I agree that TV commercials are very expensive. I believe it would be part of Businessland's responsibility to promote NeXT. I don't think they have done a very good job in that respect. It's about time we can get this machine by mailorder. Axel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Merk "One needs a certain amount of blindness -- -- agm@cs.brown.edu to see perfection" - Christopher Nuzum -- -- phone/fax (401)272 2262 Brown University Box 53 Providence RI 02912 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------