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From: philip@pescader.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.180123.8414@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 Nov 90 18:01:23 GMT
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In article <46972@apple.Apple.COM>, anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes:
|> From: das@Apple.COM (David Shayer)
|> Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
|> 
|> [lots of stuff replying to Eric Brunelle's Greedy
|>  Compromises article on the new Mac models....]
|>  
|>  David, I couldn't have said it better myself...

Heavy sounds of mutual back-slapping reverberate through the corridors of
Apple computer. Maybe some of the complaints about the new models are based
on ignorance of engineering, economics, etc. but I find it surprising that
no one at Apple seems concerned that their product line is going off into
so many different directions at once. Sort of like the Montey Python race
for people with no sense of direction.

OK, so these guys know what they're doing, and they don't need our help in
pointing out potential weaknesses in their product line. Just like everyone
complaining about the need for a low-cost Mac was being told they were
silly a few months ago.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu